Homily on St. John (Maximovich) – Part II

The second, and final, part of a homily on St. John (Maximovich) by Bishop Basil (Rodzianko). (Follows part I.) Our next meeting was already after the war. I was, actually, in a Serbian parish; not one of my parishioners left at all because that was their homeland, it was their village and they lived there. [...]

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Homily on St. John (Maximovich) – Part I

Follows the first part of my translation of a homily of Bishop Basil (Rodzianko) on St. John (Maximovich). There are so many saints who even now walk the Russian land and also martyrs who were not killed but cruelly tortured; they still walk the land and a martyric light shines in their eyes. Sometimes that [...]

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The thief on the left

Today’s iconoclasts…reject the Cross of the Lord. They allow pretty pictures of various biblical events to hang in their homes, but they repudiate the veneration of icons, which remind us that salvation is attained by following a difficult path, a narrow path, such as the Lord Jesus Christ Himself followed, a path of battling one’s [...]

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