Brotherhood of Saint John the Wonderworker

by St Ignatius (Brianchininov). "The habit of vigilance over the self protects one from an absent way of life, especially in the midst of loud worldly pleasures that surround one from every side. The attentive man remains alone within himself even in the midst of a crowd. "

Boys need to move past their feelings and learn to accept the uncertain of life, controlling their feelings and embracing the path of faith. A man does not deny his emotions, neither does he validate them, he accepts them and then moves past them into action. This action is trusting that despite our feelings, Christ has a plan and purpose for our lives.

The Most Reverend hierarch, the renowned Metropolitan of Siberia and Tobolsk, was from a noble, but poor family and received a theological degree at the then famous Kiev Theological Academy. At the end of the course, he was ordained as a priest for one of the rural churches, but he was soon…

The Hieromartyr Archpriest Philosophos (Philósophos) N. Ornatsky was born on May 21, 1860 in the churchyard of Novaya Yerga, Cherepovets County, Novgorod Governorate,1 into the family of a village priest. One of his brothers was married to the niece of Saint John of Kronstadt. Philosophos studied…

The feast of the Uncovering of the Relics of St. John (Maximovitch) of Shanghai and San Francisco (September 29/October 12) has been added to the liturgical calendar of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Michael was born in 1877 in the country of Latvia. He had hardly reached the age of one and a half when his mother died; and when he was six, his father died also. He lived a sorrowful life as an o…