By St. Tikhon of Zadonsk    But let us see what the signs of love for God are, so that we may not have a false dream of love instead of lo...

By St. Tikhon of Zadonsk (+ 1783) "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith, prove your own selves" (2 Cor. 13:5). Glory ...

St. Tikhon of Zadonsk visiting prisoners on Pascha. Illustration from The Russian Pilgrim , 1903. "At the time when the magistrat...

St. Tikhon of Zadonsk (Feast Day - August 13)   Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk, Bishop of Voronezh (+ 1783)     August: Day 13: Teaching 1: Sain...

St. Tikhon of Zadonsk (Feast Day - August 13) Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk, Bishop of Voronezh, was born in the year 1724 in the village of K...

Most of us spend the better part of our lives accumulating the wherewithal to lead a good life here on earth. How few of us seriously foll...

By St. Tikhon of Zadonsk Mankind, why have you deserted Me? Why do you turn away from the person that loves you? Why have you joined for...

By Sergei V. Bulgakov The holy fathers and teachers of the Church, having proved by their own experience the beneficence of fasting, zealo...

By St. Tikhon of Zadonsk Cheese Fare Week is the threshold and the beginning of the fast. That is why for the true children of the Church ...

By St. Tikhon of Zadonsk Whatever physical darkness is for the eyes, so is sin for the human soul. The spiritual darkness so darkens and b...

By St. Nikolai Velimirovich Until Christ becomes completely everything for the soul which authentically has a certain permanent and unchan...

By St. Nikolai Velimirovich Every device of which man boasts as an invention of his mind is revealed by Divine Providence and every invent...