- Please pray for my wife.. I am sitting outside the hospital, her condition is critical, and we desperately need your prayers
Dear brothers and sisters, I am writing this as I sit right outside the hospital, with my heart squeezed by pain and fear. My wife suffers from kidney failure and is on dialysis, and I had fully...
658 points98 comments6 d ago
- A beautiful coincidence on my journey toward Orthodoxy
&x200B; I'm a baptized Catholic who has recently become increasingly drawn to Orthodox Christianity, particularly through Orthodox sermons, hesychasm, and the Jesus Prayer. This December, I'll be...
224 points4 comments3 d ago
- Is the Sinai Pantocrator really double faced, or did the painter just make a slight mistake?
I am an artist and a student in architecture, I started looking into historical iconography after I became a catechumen and I read a few articles saying this Icon was meant to have a Dual meaning...
173 points35 comments2 d ago
- Patriarch Theophilos meets with Patriarch Kirill
On November 5th 2026, His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem and All Palestine met with His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' at the Patriarchal residence in Moscow....
171 points15 comments4 d ago
- “Joyful” Icon of the Mother of God (November 7th)
The “Joyful” (Взыграние) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos appeared near Moscow on November 7, 1795. Nothing is known of the Icon's history, except that many miracles have taken place before it. For...
145 points1 comment5 d ago
- Please pray for the victims of the shooting and the people of Kraków, Poland.
There was a shooting in the Polish city of Kraków, and about 6 people died, while more than 12 are wounded. More people have just been found in the house of the terrorist. The terrorist has been...
129 points4 comments4 d ago
- Does anyone know who he is?
My aunt went to Italy, and without me asking, she brought me this; she just wanted to come in. But a priest approached her and asked her, and my aunt told him that she entered because of me. The...
118 points28 comments2 d ago
- Saint Nectarios (Kephalas) of Aegina, Metropolitan of Pentapolis (+ 1920) (November 9th/22nd)
Saint Nectarios, the great wonderworker of modern times, was born Anastasius Kephalas in Selebria, Thrace on October 1, 1846. Since his family was poor, Anastasios went to Constantinople when he...
118 points3 comments2 d ago
- Saint Lazarus the Stylite and Wonderworker of Mount Galesion (+ 1053) (November 7th)
Saint Lazarus the Wonderworker of Mt Galesius near Ephesus was born in Lydia, in the city of Magnesium. An educated young man who loved God, Lazarus became a monk at the monastery of Saint Savva,...
113 points2 comments5 d ago
- Should an icon be timeless, or should it speak the language of our time?
It’s been almost a year since my last post here. Back then, I received many different opinions about my work — both positive and critical. I’m grateful for all of them. Some really made me think....
110 points46 comments4 d ago