An unjust defrocking is nothing new in the Church. The Saints knew it fully. What separates a confessor from a schismatic is not the injustice suffered, but the manner of the response — and the grounds of the rupture, not its appearances.
The life of Gleb (Herman) Podmoshensky, co-founder of Platina: zeal, fall, schism, and prelest through a patristic lens.
St Andrew of Caesarea’s method and the golden rule of reading Revelation: its symbols are unfolded through Scripture and in the Church, not through the news of the day.
The feast of Saints Martha and Mary, the sisters of Lazarus (June 4): their lives, who Saint Lazarus is, the patristic reading of the two sisters, and their liturgical veneration.
The Holy Martyrs of Niculitel teach us how to confess Christ, why the Church venerates holy relics, and the courage to remain faithful in the world.
Ivan Kireevsky, the Russian critic and philosopher trained under Hegel and Schelling, who found at Optina Monastery the integrality of the mind and the living tradition of the Holy Fathers.
The life of Saint Elizabeth of Pasărea, a Romanian desert-dweller of our own days: fasting, vigil, obedience, unceasing prayer, and holiness close to us.
The life of Saint Jacob of Putna: Metropolitan of Moldavia, defender of the people, enlightener through books, and second founder of Putna Monastery.
Life of Saint Justin the Martyr and Philosopher: his search for Truth, the Logos sown throughout the world, the earliest description of the Liturgy, and his martyrdom.
Why Revelation is not read at the Divine Liturgy, and why the Fathers approached it with caution: canon, chiliasm, Chrysostom’s silence, and the patristic key.