Showing posts with label St. Theophan the Recluse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Theophan the Recluse. Show all posts

Thursday, July 15, 2021

Holy Theophan the Recluse, Pray for Us!

Friday, February 05, 2021

St. Theophan the Recluse on Self-Abasement



Is this excessive? Humility must be balanced by trust in God and His work in us?

Saturday, July 22, 2017

The Translation of the Reclis of St. Theophan the Recluse

Translation of the Relics of St. Theophan, the Recluse of Vysha
The holy relics of St. Theophan the Recluse were secretly exhumed in 1973 on the territory of the Shatzk psychiatric hospital located in the buildings of Vysha Monastery, which had been desecrated by the godless authorities, and immediately taken to the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra. There they were interred in the basement of the Dormition Cathedral until 1988.

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Loving Christ, Loving the Cross

That We Would Never Cross Ourselves Mechanically
Marina Biryukova

Fr. Sergei, to be honest, we very often cross ourselves mechanically, or just because at the moment in the service one ought to cross oneself, or ...

Following Christ to the End: A Homily For the Sunday Before the Exaltation of the Cross by Archpriest Alexei Uminsky

The Exaltation of the Lord’s Cross: The Mystery of Golgotha by Archpriest Andrei Tkachev

Fr. Stephen Freeman, The Cross as the Way of Life

Why Does the World Reject the Cross of Christ? by Protopresbyter Themistokles Mourtzanos

The Largest Piece of the True Cross Of Christ—Holy Monastery of Xeropotamou, Mount Athos
In the Catholicon (Main Church) of the Holy Monastery of Xeropotamou, thirteen pieces of the True Cross of Jesus Christ are treasured, four large pieces in ancient reliquaries and nine smaller pieces which are also housed in reliquaries with other relics of saints.

St. Theophan the Recluse, The Spiritual Exaltation of the Cross