St. Herman, while he lived on earth, was a simple monk who came from his beloved Valaam Monastery in Russia to the shores of Alaska in the year 1794.

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A certain man once appealed to Jesus Christ with a request to order his brother to divide an inheritance with him. Christ declined this request, for He came not in order to hear lawsuits within the competence of...

The parable of the Good Samaritan is well known to many of us from childhood. It is customary to think that we know it well. But do we? On the face of it, we sort of know it. But really, it is only possible to spiritually know some parable, some...

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

We meet with a very different scene in today’s Gospel than the one with which we ended last Sunday. In the verse just before today’s...