St. John the Confessor
Orthodox Christian Church

Too many people just assume that they know what a “good man” is. Because a man or an organization (composed of “good men”) builds hospitals, schools, an orphanage, an old-folks home, gives to medical research, to needy relatives, to charities, or because he is pleasant, honest, kind, loyal, refined, cheerful, honorable, or possesses those qualities which endears him to his …

Question: “If the Orthodox faith is the only true faith, can Christians of other confessions be saved? May a person who has led a perfectly righteous life on earth be saved on the strength of his ancestry, while not being baptized as Christian? Answer: “For He saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and …

“At that time, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of sick folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an Angel went down at a certain season into …

Archbishop Andrei, Novo-Diveevo Convent The One Thing Needful Mark 8:34-9:1 The Lord said, Whosoever will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for My sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it. For what shall it …

We solemnly celebrate, dear brothers and sisters, the Nativity of the Most Holy Virgin Mary from her barren parents, pious Joachim and Anna. The Holy Church established this feast during the first centuries of the Christian Faith. The event that we celebrate—the birth of the God-Chosen maiden—brought joy to all the world, for the God-man, Jesus Christ, Who shone forth …