MANASTIR LEPAVINA - SRPSKA PRAVOSLAVNA CRKVA

ORTHODOX ROOTS, BEKTASHI NEIGHBORS An Interview with Albania’s Metropolitan John of Korca

We see every human being created as an icon of God, and as the Orthodox Church we have tried to emphasize this to our people. But also there are many other unnoticed affinities, such as family, cultural and historical ties. For example, respect for S

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Petersburg’s Street Kids Find a Home

The Psalm 23 Orthodox Boys’ Shelter In 1991 Natalia Ustinova, a St. Petersburg math teacher, took a dozen homeless boys off the street and started one of the first private children’s homes in postglasnost Russia. Her boys are all grown

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COLUMBA SAILS EAST by Columba Bruce Clark

You say you are Orthodox? And what did you say your baptismal name was? I am a Northern Irish convert to Orthodoxy who regularly finds himself working and going to church in places which are much closer to the traditional heartland of eastern Christi

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A Russian Priest: My Work with English-speaking Converts

An Interview with Father Artemy Vladimirov Fr. Artemy Vladimirov, an English-speaking Moscow priest from the Church of All Saints at Krasnoselskaya, has, for the past decade, been a mainstay for Western Orthodox converts living in Moscow and visit

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How do you relate to your unbelieving friends and relatives?

Some of our non-Orthodox relatives and friends are afraid of the outward parts of the faith – of the long prayers and keeping fasts, for example, but this is almost always because they have never tried. Sophia Borisovna, 24, Barnaul, Altai-S

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From America to Russia:The Myrrh-Streaming Icon of Tsar Nicholas II by Richard (Thomas) Betts

A myrrh-streaming icon of Tsar Nicholas II has appeared in Russia, and it has appeared with the same unpretentious simplicity with which the late Tsar laid down his throne and bore his final months of house arrest. The icon was not painted by a conte

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WHAT IS ORTHODOX CHURCH ?

“He can no longer have God for a Father, who has not the Church for a Mother.” One of the early Christian martyrs, Saint Cyprian of Carthage, spoke these words. They may seem strange to people of our generation, who have been schooled to

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Orthodoxy in Indonesia, An Interview with Archimandrite Daniel Bambang Dwi Byantoro by Thomas Hulber

 When Archimandrite Daniel, the founder of the Orthodox Mission in Indonesia, came into the little bookstore in Amsterdam where we had arranged to meet, he was fresh off the plane from Jakarta, a flight of many long hours. Although he was ti

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THE LIGHTNESS OF BEING ORTHODOX

Road to Emmaus staff asked five Moscow Orthodox Christians to tell us their favorite stories. I I had served as an altarnik [altar attendant] at Holy Trinity Church in Moscow for several years when a woman came in one day after liturgy, her eye

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THE GOLDEN THREAD OF FAITH: MENTAL ILLNESS AND THE SOUL An Interview with Dr.Marina Busigina

When people are very distressed, I sometimes read the prayer,

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ARCHIMANDRITE GAVRILO

Dear visitors of our web-site of the monastery Lepavina! Due to a high number of visits of our website, I am honoured to take the responsibility to describe you in English different events from Serbian Orthodox Church and monastery Lepavina. We would like to inform you that we will be also putting on our web-site some texts in English on different subjects from other Orthodox websites. I deeply hope and believe that our Lord will help me in that!

With God’s blessing, from monastery Lepavina Archimandrite Gavrilo.

Biography Archimandrite Gabriel (Vuckovic)