The Catalogue of Good Deeds

Why the Skull of Saint John Chrysostom Has One Incorrupt Ear after More than 1600 Years

Ortho Christian February 7, 2024 1,469 Comments

Orthodoxy Says 'Pride' Is the Most Common and Worst Sin, the Root of Other Sins - Here's a Good Explanation

Archpriest Andrey Chizhenko September 8, 2022 452 Comments

The Sign of the Cross in Ancient Church

Reader John Malov August 13, 2022 1,165 Comments

Saint's Wartime Story Proves the Unique Benefits of Christian Monks in Society

August 4, 2022 165 Comments

What Was Life Like at the First Ever Christian Monastery?

Reader John Malov July 29, 2022 129 Comments

What Do Gestures on Icons Mean?

Dmitry Marchenko July 27, 2022 215 Comments

Why Do the Altars of Orthodox Churches Face the East?

Reader John Malov July 16, 2022 280 Comments

Why Did Medieval Russians Build 'One Day Churches' During Epidemics?

Valentina Novikova July 4, 2022 808 Comments

How the Vikings Found Christianity

Artem Perlik June 30, 2022 1,095 Comments

Defrocking: the Main Reasons for the Removal from Sacred Orders

John Nichiporuk June 27, 2022 1,134 Comments

Why Mary Is the Most Important Human Figure in Christianity

Eric Hyde June 24, 2022 251 Comments

Why Do the Orthodox Clergy Wear Black? - Orthodox Answers

Fr. Evgeny Murzin June 1, 2022 130 Comments

Why Do Orthodox Clergy Wear Different Colored Vestments? - Orthodox Answers

Reader John Malov May 16, 2022 159 Comments

Three Russian Orthodox Nuns, Three War Heroes

Anastasia Parkhomchik May 14, 2022 165 Comments

WW2 Veteran Met Christ at the Front and Became a Much Revered Russian Saint

Anastasia Parkhomchik May 13, 2022 306 Comments

The Miraculous Crucifix that Survived the Fall of Byzantium and the Bolshevik Regime (Cross of Godenovo)

May 9, 2022 1,385 Comments

Why Do the Orthodox Wear Special Vestments During Worship? - Orthodox Answers

Reader John Malov May 8, 2022 135 Comments

If Christ Destroyed Death, Then Why Do People Keep Dying? - Orthodox Answers

Archpriest Vladimir Bashkirov May 5, 2022 225 Comments

He Fought in the War, Overcame the Soviet Power and Became a Wonderworking Orthodox Priest

Anastasia Parkhomchik April 27, 2022 351 Comments

Orthodox Fresco that Travelled in Space and Became Universally Famous

Anastasia Parkhomchik April 27, 2022 117 Comments

Excessive Care for Physical Health Is Vanity & Unbelief in Divine Providence - Famous Orthodox Saint

April 6, 2022 488 Comments

Why Does God Hide from Us the Date of His Second Coming?

Fr. Evgeny Murzin March 25, 2022 168 Comments

Remarkable Russian Saint Explains What True Christian Fasting Is (St. Seraphim of Sarov)

Saint Seraphim of Sarov March 22, 2022 213 Comments

Isn't It Enough Just To Have God in Your Soul To Be a Christian?

March 21, 2022 365 Comments

Became Monk at Age 16, Spent More than 10 Years in a Soviet Camp, and Was a Gifted Preacher

Anastasia Parkhomchik March 17, 2022 160 Comments

Anointing with Oil in Antiquity and in the Christian Church

Reader John Malov February 3, 2022 311 Comments

Two Outstanding Russian Relics Close to Where US Orthodox Immigrants to Russia Are Settling (Rostov Veliky)

Anastasia Parkhomchik December 5, 2021 508 Comments

The Departure of Two Famous Russians — a Writer and a Saint

Anastasia Parkhomchik November 29, 2021 294 Comments

Why Orthodox Churches Are Expensively Decorated

Reader John Malov November 25, 2021 472 Comments

The Evidence that Pontius Pilate Converted to Christianity

Archpriest Igor Ryabko November 22, 2021 1,318 Comments

Understanding Hellfire (and Ways to Avoid It) by Orthodox Holy Fathers

Reader John Malov November 17, 2021 234 Comments

Apostate Roman Emperor's Story Is a Proof God Destroys Church Persecutors

Marina Borisova November 14, 2021 297 Comments

Father Tikhon, the Last Russian Elder on Mount Athos

November 5, 2021 301 Comments

What is the Importance of Monasteries in Orthodoxy?

Archpriest Sergey Uspensky October 26, 2021 239 Comments

Father Thomas Hopko and His Fifty Five Maxims of Christian Living

Fr. Bill Olnhausen October 24, 2021 552 Comments

Which Jobs Are Off Limits to Christians?

Victoria Koltyga September 15, 2021 294 Comments

“In Their Infinite Wisdom Politicians and Journalists Sometimes Say Terrible Nonsense”. Elder Paisios of the Holy Mountain

Editor of The Catalogue of Good Deeds September 12, 2021 230 Comments

Oldest New Testament Passage: Papyrus P52

Reader John Malov September 7, 2021 128 Comments

Another Saint from the Romanov Family. St Anastasia of Kiev

Anastasia Parkhomchik September 5, 2021 143 Comments

How Is Orthodox Christianity Different from Islam?

Reader John Malov August 28, 2021 360 Comments

Things You Wanted to Know about Confession but Were Always Afraid to Ask

Editor of The Catalogue of Good Deeds August 20, 2021 175 Comments

Instructions for Priests: How to Deal with Force Majeure During the Liturgy

Reader John Nichiporuk August 18, 2021 226 Comments

How Often Can You Eat Prosphora?

Andrey Muzolf August 15, 2021 234 Comments

The Authenticity of 1 John 5:7 — Historical Evidence and the Church Tradition

Priest Georgy Maksimov August 11, 2021 197 Comments

How Saint Seraphim of Sarov Led a Protestant Family to See the Light of the Orthodox Faith

Priest Valery Dukhanin August 10, 2021 208 Comments

Being Content with Little: Wonderful Story by Archimandrite Gregory (Zumis)

Archimandrite Gregory (Zumis) August 6, 2021 106 Comments

Whatever Happened to Psalm 58?

Fr. Lawrence Farley July 25, 2021 647 Comments

Great Elders of the 19th and 20th Centuries About Prayer

Anastasia Parkhomchik July 23, 2021 116 Comments

What Makes a Child’s Prayer So Powerful and Pleasing to God?

Anastasia Parkhomchik July 20, 2021 89 Comments

About the “Healthy” and “Unhealthy” Eye

Archpriest Vyacheslav Reznikov July 15, 2021 106 Comments

Clashes on the Temple Mount And What Lies Behind Them Explained in 3 Minutes

Priest Evgeny Murzin, Alexander Zanemonets July 11, 2021 519 Comments

The First “Soviet” Saint

Editor of The Catalogue of Good Deeds July 11, 2021 246 Comments

Are There Scientific Methods for Verifying the Historical Authenticity of Relics?

Fr. Tikhon Sysoev, Fr. Timofey Kitnis July 11, 2021 108 Comments

Stele of Merneptah: Archaeology in Agreement that the Events in the Book of Exodus Truly Took Place

Sergey Kovach July 11, 2021 147 Comments

Miracles Happen at the Right Time

Archpriest Oleg Vrona July 9, 2021 104 Comments

When Is Pity Not a Good Thing?

Priest Andrey Chizhenko July 2, 2021 123 Comments

Can Sacred Tradition Be Wrong?

Hieromonk Job (Gumerov) July 1, 2021 106 Comments

How Can Relatives of a Suicide Help?

Archpriest Andrey Chizhenko June 29, 2021 81 Comments

St Paisios of the Holy Mountain about Saving a Family from Decay

Saint Paisios of the Holy Mountain June 27, 2021 202 Comments

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh on Inner Silence

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh June 26, 2021 218 Comments

Salt of the Earth - Patriarch Pavle

Editor of The Catalogue of Good Deeds June 23, 2021 140 Comments

Pastoral Advice on Long Confession

Priest Andrey Chizhenko June 22, 2021 139 Comments

7 Facts about the Savior’s Crown of Thorns

Editor of The Catalogue of Good Deeds June 18, 2021 154 Comments

High Priests Ananias and Caiaphas: Arbiters in the Trial of God

IGOR TSUKANOV June 15, 2021 98 Comments

Infidelity in Marriage — How Should a Christian Respond?

Archpriest Vladimir Puchkov June 10, 2021 136 Comments

Savior on Spilled Blood. A Church Where All Icons Are Made in Mosaic Technique

Anastasia Parkhomchik June 9, 2021 169 Comments

Visions and Intercessions of the Holy Theotokos During Wartime

Andrew Segeda June 8, 2021 106 Comments

Miraculous Stories with St Gabriel (Urgebadze)

Editor of The Catalogue of Good Deeds June 6, 2021 172 Comments

Why Is Christ Shown Holding a Banner in the Icons of His Resurrection and Descent into Hades?

Anastasia Parkhomchik May 30, 2021 220 Comments

St Nilus of Sora and the Dispute about Monastic Property Rights

Archpriest Vladimir Dolgikh May 29, 2021 67 Comments

11 Quotes on Love by St Ignatius (Brianchaninov)

St Ignatius (Brianchaninov) May 22, 2021 164 Comments

Historical Evidence of Christ’s Resurrection

Alexander Tkachenko May 14, 2021 180 Comments

Cremation and Non-Orthodox Family

Fr. John Whiteford May 14, 2021 174 Comments

A Very Detailed Resurrection Icon

Editor of The Catalogue of Good Deeds May 9, 2021 176 Comments

A Paschal Miracle: Saint Nectarios of Aegina Descends From Heaven to Serve Liturgy

Editor of The Catalogue of Good Deeds May 9, 2021 308 Comments

Pascha's Fatalism - Our Neighbors are Immortal, Our Eternal Companions

Archimandrite Savva (Mazhuko) May 6, 2021 53 Comments

Miracles, Judas, and Hatred of the Innocent One

Sergey Khudiev May 6, 2021 82 Comments

Artos — the Bread of Easter (PHOTOS & VIDEOS)

Vladimir Yeshtokin May 6, 2021 102 Comments

A Satanist at Church — a True Story with an Unexpected End

Victor Vlasov May 2, 2021 555 Comments

From Harlots to Saints: Imitating St. Mary of Egypt

Anastasia Parkhomchik April 28, 2021 89 Comments