Jacob became a God-fighter, which translates to ‘Israel’. But ‘God–fighter’ is a negative concept, a God-fighting one… How is it that the church is called a bogoboritsa? Truly so! Her struggle, like Gethsemane, is a struggle in love: when the Most High, diminishing, wants us to get the better of Him, just as Jacob got the better of ‘Someone...
Evangelical Sermons of Blessed John
Evangelical sermons of Blessed John and his friends.
The Elder Gregory – the Hyperborean Christ
The only authentic portrait of the elder Grigory, painted from life in 1913 by the artist Nikolai Kornilievich Bodarevsky, has been preserved. This portrait was kept for a long time in Germany and today it can be found on the Internet. In the portrait, Grigory Yefimovich appears as a gracious elder. The face shines with kindness. There was...