Exodus of the soul
The soul, united by the will of God with the body, is separated, again by the will of God, from the body with which it previously constituted a person.
Divided, the soul...
Here is the doctrinal meaning of the Mother of God - she gives birth to the Son of God. That is why she is the Mother of God.
The consent of the Mother of God...
There is preserved information about the Mother of God in the Holy Scriptures insofar as her person is in connection with the historical person of the incarnate Word - of our Lord Jesus Christ....
Among the believing Orthodox Christians, the last dramatic years of a global pandemic have intensified thoughts about life after death, towards relatives and friends who have passed away. These are questions that excite people...
(Part 2)
Author: Archbishop Sergius of Solnechnogorsk **
The irresistible desire to conquer nature, to subdue its internal forces and resources, although it becomes a source of new tragedies for man, is a powerful stimulus for...
Author: Saint Zeno of Verona
How easy it is to expose greed in front of everyone! Oh, if only they couldn't dislike her so easily! She is a cunning and sweet evil and always a...
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has appointed a new representative in Athens - this is the Metropolitan of Laodicea Theodoret, one of the most authoritative metropolitans of the Patriarchate. He will head the patriarchal service in...
The Russian-language newspaper Izvestia published an interview of Sofia Devyatova with His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilus III about the threats faced by Christians in the Holy Land, their attitude to vaccination and the prospects of...
Personal growth training, as a rule, consists in "training" a person so that he endures humiliation and insults and "goes over his head" himself, while a positive approach is in the creative disclosure of...
Orthodox youth from around the world will meet this year in Wroclaw, Poland, between July 18th and 23rd.
The meeting was hosted by the Polish Orthodox Church and the Association of Orthodox Youth in Poland,...
The Nierian Bishop Neophyte (in Kenya) of the Alexandria Patriarchate has made public the attempt to take over the diocesan church of his diocese from Russian "missionaries" who travel around African countries to persuade...
Today, the tension between Bulgaria and the Republic of Northern Macedonia is escalating on the basis of different readings on a number of issues from the recent and distant history of the two neighboring...
On the day the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 epidemic a pandemic, it became clear that all of humanity was facing dramatic changes affecting the free movement of people and the functioning...
The canon law of the Orthodox Church adopts the Roman definition of marriage given by the Roman jurist Modestin - "union of man and woman, union for life, communion in divine and human rights."
This...
Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeev): Believers in Africa greet us with "Thank you Putin" posters
Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate's Foreign Affairs Department, Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeev), with the Alexander Nevsky Order...
The Christian Church is founded on the will of its divine Founder. This will has worked in the Church from the very beginning and will work "all the days until the end of the...
On the eve of the International Marriage Week, which is held annually from 7 to 14 February, our editorial board offers a series of materials on the religious dimensions of the family and marriage.
From...
The Temple of prayer will be named…
(discourses about the Church and power)
Author: Svyatoslav Moiseyenko, writer, essayist, public figure
To my great regret, in the foundation of any earthly Church, in addition to dogma, there is...
Staffordshire University will conduct the first-ever study of mummified children found in the Capuchin catacombs in Sicily. This is stated in the announcement of the project on the website of the educational institution.
Bioarchaeologist Kirsty...
The Holy Father praised the honesty of the people who pay their taxes and condemned tax evasion and the informal economy
Pope Francis today encouraged people who are not usually liked - tax officials -...
Marriage in the Old Testament era
Marriage in the Old Testament era was monogamous. Polygamy is mentioned as an exception.
It should be added here that monogamy as a model is set in the story of...
On January 28, 2022, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, having read the communiqué of the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Alexandria published on January 12, 2022 in connection with the...
He had a profound influence on a whole generation of Orthodox thinkers of the twentieth century. It is no coincidence that contemporaries call him "Russian Leonardo". Philosopher, scientist, naturalist and engineer-inventor, philologist and mathematician,...
Statement of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church-Bulgarian Patriarchate
Subject: Constitutional case № 6 of 2021 in connection with Order № 2 of 29.04.2021, by which the Constitutional Court of the Republic of...
In this final document, the hundred or so participants in the first French-speaking Christian Forum (Leysin, 10 to 13 October 2021), echo this rich meeting and want to share some discoveries with the churches,...