13 ноября 2015 года в Запорожье состоялась канонизация 15-го запорожского святого – последнего кошевого атамана Запорожской Сечи праведного Петра Калнышевского. Чин прославления возглавил Блаженнейший Митрополит Киевский и всея Украины Онуфрий

Escape from hell

Business, casinos, booze, and a family falling apart. This is the story of Simeon the novice – a man who hit absolute rock bottom and somehow found his way back to life inside a monastic cell.

“The Fly Syndrome”: Elder Paisios on how to see flowers in a minefield

An Athonite test of spiritual sanity: why some find filth in a paradise garden, while others discover honey in a field of ashes.

Spiritual scoliosis: How sin breaks the spine of our will

Why do we stare at our feet instead of at the heavens? How does the gravitational pull of sin bend the soul downward, and how do we recover an inner backbone through prayer and silence?

Elder Paisios of Mount Athos: How to endure war without losing one's mind

The news of our days now trembles with a force greater than the Apocalypse, and the air–raid sirens have woven themselves into the very rhythm of our existence. Yet the Athonite elder knew how the human heart can remain whole in the midst of the world’s chaos.

The “mystery” of the Entry

This event is absent from the Gospel – and yet it changed everything. Let us consider how the Virgin Mary became the new Ark of the Covenant, and why silence is greater than religious activism.

War of the Worlds: How the peace of Christ differs from a truce in hell

Why is justice without love always a dictatorship? How do we tell God’s peace from the “peace of the graveyard”? And why do drones take off not from military bases, but from our own hearts?