Herman A Wilderness SaintHow is it that a simple Russian Orthodox monk traveled thousands of miles across the Eurasian landmass and north Pacific ocean to settle in Kodiak, Alaska? Why, nearly 200 years later was he cited in a speech to the 91st United States Congress, delivered by Senator Ted Stevens? It was expressed in this oration that his canonization will serve to yield new benevolence and understanding to provide the Aleut and other native people of Alaska the rewards

This flower reminds us of our Mother’s sweet affection for all of her children

Every decade (10 beads) is separated by spacer beads of a different shape

and were read by both Lutheran and Roman theologians

” he affirms

receives Christ’s universal enlargement and becomes a true image of Christ with a hypostatic mode of existence

Saint Philothea

The Hidden Man of the Heart consists of a series of presentations on the place of the heart in the spiritual life of the Christian

Saints of the Russian Orthodox Church: Volume I offers a compelling look into the lives of those who shaped its spiritual foundations

This olive wood prayer rope

sweet pain in the centre of his being

Vitaly is ever with us … and

These prayers are the work of some of the greatest Fathers of the Church