Huge thanks for such informative and life-related website, I'm a Russian who lived abroad for a long time, and I could never fully explain to our protestant friends there why Orthodoxy is the only church. We knew the Holy Scriptures, the history of church, the Lives of Saints, but we never saw it from the other side, as Father Joseph did - for example in his article about Bible, the Septuagint and Masorethic texts. I bet almost no one in Russia knows that, we always thought all Bibles had the same text, preserved from the beginning.
Well done! I am a faithful and devoted Greek Orthodox living in the UK. Your link was forwarded to us by our monastery. We will follow you in your pages. Thank you so much for your good effort to keep our faith alive and honour our Lord!
ГОСПОДИ ИИСУСЕ ХРИСТЕ, СЫНЕ БОЖИЙ, МОЛИТВАМИ БОГОРОДИЦЫ И ВСЕХ СВЯТЫХ ТВОИХ ГОСПОДИ, СПАСИ, СОХРАНИ И ПОМИЛУЙ КАНОНИЧЕСКУЮ ПРАВОСЛАВНУЮ ЦЕРКОВЬ, И ОГРАДИ НАС ОТ ВСЯКОГО ЗЛА. АМИНЬ.
Since you tube is being annoying...I'm not the most religious one Ive been studying Kabbalah but that's more a science & you can find other faith alongside it...currently I'm at a serious crossroads in my life,somewhat life/death not to be overly dramatic but the recent Russophobia in the US sort of "reminded" me I found great fascination w Russia & I truly believe in Russia being the true peacemaker of the world...this is a beautiful religion... Much love & respect to you for doing this.❤
Discover Orthodox Christianity, you'll not be disappointed. Ever. It's hard work for the soul, to live our salvation and to know ourself but SOOO worth it. Orthodoxy - telling (and living) the truth since 33AD.
If I had anything left to give you I would! It was all taken from me by jewish banksters and lawyers. I lost everything in -07 then broke my back for the second time, and have been living in a camp trailer in NW Montana for 10 years alone in the trees. I have to say tho, I was a smoker for 40 years, and back about 3 weeks ago, I prayed to our most benevolent lord for help to stop that horrific habit. In about three days, my lungs started hurting so bad I thought I was dying, then all of sudden, I completely lost my desire to smoke cigarettes. I am in my 3rd week and staying as strong as day one. My lungs feel much better, and my spirituality is more in tact than it has been for the last 25 years. I have begun searching a Russian Orthodox church in my area, and as soon as I have a car running again will get myself back to church. Thank you so much for this beautiful video. Our lord lives!
Mo, please find me on FB, I would like to send you some Holy Icons of Christ and His Saints. Ask St Seraphim of Sarov for help with your back. May Christ by the prayers of His saints heal your back, and give you His life.
To be honest I am an agnostic. For financial gain, I was baptized in the Orthodox church in 1974 when I was 30. I love the rituals and pomp the Church uses and am proud to have gone for it. I try to follow Christs' rules and if Americans would do the same this world would be a better place. Glory to Russia.
Hello from Russia, dear brothers and sisters! Christ Is In Our Midst! - There is and will be! Всем привет из России дорогие братья и сестры! Христос Посреди Нас!- Есть и будет!
I was raised Catholic in Maryland but I am trying to marry a Ukrainian girl and planning to convert to the orthodox faith to help raise her daughters with good values.
Love to eastern orthodox christianity from a muslim! In islam we believe this sect to be of the true people! i would like to share something from the quran. You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers [to be] the Jews and those who associate others with Allah ; and you will find the nearest of them in affection to the believers those who say, "We are Christians." That is because among them are priests and monks and because they are not arrogant. 5:82 Islamic escatologie also states that the true muslims and the true christians will be allied in the freeing of Constantinople and the Hagia sophia is to be returned to its rightful owners the orthodox christian community.
What Islam doesn't say is where it actually came from … Arian priests who had fallen away from true Faith. In taking writings of these heretic people, Mohammed thought he was doing God's work, especially in trying to eradicate the Truth, but all it did was start civil war that's now gone on for centuries. Peace be unto you, friend.
Please can you send me the source of that please? "Islamic escatologie also states that the true muslims and the true christians will be allied in the freeing of Constantinople and the Hagia sophia is to be returned to its rightful owners the orthodox christian community". I've heard of it from Orthodox sources but never Islamic, as Turkey would never, without a fight, relinquish Istanbul.(Or MONEY maybe, from the Russians)
Shame though I wrote to you all on facebook asking for help finding a good introduction book or pages on your website that would be good for a Russian orthodox curious individual to learn more about the Russian church more and never heard back despite the message having been read. :(
it's a rhetorical question, pointing out the illogical conclusion that "looking like" a Muslim prayer group makes it necessarily a Muslim prayer group. Orthodox also bow during prayer. And the priests wear robes.
Karen Bartlett I am not making any illogical conclusions - I am just reporting what I see. As a Russian Orthodox Christian who has lived in a Muslim country, I cannot help but notice that that partucular scene looks more like Muslims praying. The Orthodox do make prostrations but they do not bring their hands to their faces like that, at least not in Russia. But whatever - if you prefer to believe that Russian Orthidox Christians pray like that, then it's your choice.
Until Christians and Patriots are courageous enough to identify and address the genesis of America's woes, matters will only worsen here in the United States. America was once great but not for the reason most people believe it was. In fact, quite the opposite - a classic case of Isaiah 5:20, calling evil good and good evil. Yahweh, God of the Bible, blesses nations (makes them great and prosperous) when they look to Him as their sovereign and thus His moral law as the standard for government and society, per Deuteronomy 4:4-8, 28:1-14, etc. Consequently, America's greatness was the result of the 17th-century Christian Colonial governments of, by, and for God established upon His unchanging moral law: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835: "They [the 17th-century Colonials] exercised the rights of sovereignty; they named their magistrates, concluded peace or declared war, made police regulations, and enacted laws as if their allegiance was due only to God. Nothing can be more curious and, at the same time more instructive, than the legislation of that period; it is there that the solution of the great social problem which the United States now presents to the world is to be found [in perfect fulfillment of Deuteronomy 4:5-8, demonstrating the continuing veracity of Yahweh's law and its accompanying blessings, per Deuteronomy 28:1-14]. "Amongst these documents we shall notice, as especially characteristic, the code of laws promulgated by the little State of Connecticut in 1650. The legislators of Connecticut begin with the penal laws, and … they borrow their provisions from the text of Holy Writ ... copied verbatim from the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy.…" (Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 2 vols. (New York: NY: The Colonial Press, 1899) vol. 1, pp. 36-37) On the other hand, Yahweh curses nations who reject His sovereignty and replace His law with their own man-made surrogates. Thus, America began to be cursed (by God's long suffering only incrementally at first) when the 18th-century founders replaced the 17th-century Colonial governments with their own humanistic government of, by, and for the people based upon capricious Enlightenment traditions. Without repentance for these sins of sedition our complicity therein, it was inevitable that America would find herself teetering on the precipice of moral depravity and destruction. For more regarding these two polar opposite forms of government, see Chapter 3 "The Preamble: WE THE PEOPLE vs. YAHWEH" of free online book "Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective" at www.bibleversusconstitution.org/BlvcOnline/biblelaw-constitutionalism-pt3.html. Then find out how much you really know about the Constitution as compared to the Bible. Take our 10-question Constitution Survey in the right-hand sidebar and receive a complimentary copy of a book that examines the Constitution by the Bible.
Lorraine Pecus Russia is Christian Orthodox and has been converted since the 9th century, with a seventy-year dark age. Let's pray for a change in Western leadership (US-EU), to help the West speed along in getting out of the trap the Soviet Union fell in. Don't expect Russia to ever convert to Catholicism. Russia has four official religions: Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Judaism, and also recognizes shamanic practice and culture. It also comprises of some 130 nationalities that have not perished, like their distant relatives on the North American continent.This is a truly multi-cultural society. Cheers!
Lorraine Pecus ....Russian leadership seems to be doing just fine in the past couple of years. As George commented below, it's the West's leadership that needs 'restoration'
Miranda Rota If I may: Russia was in the pains of rebirth since the fall of the ussr, however, since Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin has been at the helm, the ship has not only avoided the shoals, righted herself and weathered the storm but also has a new destination, whereto she sails full-speed under fair weather (western-concocted tempests-in-a-teacup notwithstanding). Nice use of the word "restoration". Cheers to that restoration! Happy Easter!
President Putin IS part of the means by which Mary (Theotokos) at Fatima said Russia would be consecrated to God.It's thanks to Pres. Putin and Russia that we haven't already had a nuclear war... Hello?
I love Russia and it’s the only country I would love to spend the rest of my life in. Right from birth, I always knew that Russia 🇷🇺 is that heaven on earth by its adoption of Karl Marx’s and Lenin’s prescriptions. I won’t hesitate to take the slightest opportunity I can get. I’ll trade everything for it. Get married there and never look back.
rather than building apartment building for housing the poor , to replace the decaying , rusty housing buildings I saw in Russia , they are wasting money in churches , 10000 churches damm !! , what a waste of financial resources , hope America never lets that happen !
1000 schools compared to 10000 churches ! , churches will not make russians more smart , creative, open minded but schools will , churches are all about influence ,prestige
Yes! Who takes in the poor? You? Who lets the impoverished sleep in their basements, on their doorsteps? You? Who cares for the indigent, poor, sick? You? Thanks for sharing, brother.
there are many billionaire., millionare philanthropists who give to charity , warren buffet , bill gates just to name a few who are the biggest charity Donner of modern times but unlike the church there is no Proselytism that comes with their donations . when the government fails in its obligations both religious and non religious organisations should play a role but in most cases religious organisations and churches provide help while trying to convert as many as possible , yes the church is good at it . if the church was really , genuinely all about helping those in need , the church wouldn t be worth billions of $$ (Vatican ) , and be one of the biggest real estate owners in the world , unfortunately in this regard ( real estate ownership) it looks like the Russian orthodox church is following the Vatican `s path . what the church is doing for the impoverished , sick etc.. is just like a drop of water in a ocean compared to what it could do with its immense fortune , let them 1st stop building those huge megachurches worth hundreds of thousand $$ ,some even million of $$ with their golden ceilings , luxurious monasteries , they are busy accumulating wealth and I sometimes wonder how would Jesus Christ who was clearly against about accumulating riches ,react !!!!
Churches are being built with donations. Apartments are built on private and government money. This is such a stale argument and has been debunked thousands of times
Thank you for yourr devotion, efforts, and this video and website. Peace of the Lord be unto you.
Huge thanks for such informative and life-related website, I'm a Russian who lived abroad for a long time, and I could never fully explain to our protestant friends there why Orthodoxy is the only church. We knew the Holy Scriptures, the history of church, the Lives of Saints, but we never saw it from the other side, as Father Joseph did - for example in his article about Bible, the Septuagint and Masorethic texts. I bet almost no one in Russia knows that, we always thought all Bibles had the same text, preserved from the beginning.
Fantastic! Keep up the great work Mr. Curry.
Well done! I am a faithful and devoted Greek Orthodox living in the UK.
Your link was forwarded to us by our monastery.
We will follow you in your pages. Thank you so much for your good effort to keep our faith alive and honour our Lord!
Proud Russian Orthodox lady from Australia. You have my support
Russian Orthodox from Austria
Good work, brother! Greetings to you from an orthodox German, who moved to Russia.
Edgar Cayce had predicted that Russia would save the world from darkness.
Edgar Cayce: “Out of Russia will come the hope of the world.” I see Putin as playing a major role in the fulfillment of that prediction.
Cayce was an occultist. I'd not be citing him.
Fantastic site and THANK YOU for all your work nd dedication. I so enjoy reading all your stories, and I have turned so many on to hear. God Bless.
ГОСПОДИ ИИСУСЕ ХРИСТЕ, СЫНЕ БОЖИЙ, МОЛИТВАМИ БОГОРОДИЦЫ И ВСЕХ СВЯТЫХ ТВОИХ ГОСПОДИ, СПАСИ, СОХРАНИ И ПОМИЛУЙ КАНОНИЧЕСКУЮ ПРАВОСЛАВНУЮ ЦЕРКОВЬ, И ОГРАДИ НАС ОТ ВСЯКОГО ЗЛА. АМИНЬ.
ПРЕСВЯТАЯ ТРОИЦА, БОЖЕ НАШ, СЛАВА ТЕБЕ! ! !
thank you David! Great site!
If we don't donate, we deserve what is coming. I am starting with 10 bucks. More to come :)
Since you tube is being annoying...I'm not the most religious one Ive been studying Kabbalah but that's more a science & you can find other faith alongside it...currently I'm at a serious crossroads in my life,somewhat life/death not to be overly dramatic but the recent Russophobia in the US sort of "reminded" me I found great fascination w Russia & I truly believe in Russia being the true peacemaker of the world...this is a beautiful religion... Much love & respect to you for doing this.❤
Discover Orthodox Christianity, you'll not be disappointed. Ever. It's hard work for the soul, to live our salvation and to know ourself but SOOO worth it. Orthodoxy - telling (and living) the truth since 33AD.
If I had anything left to give you I would! It was all taken from me by jewish banksters and lawyers. I lost everything in -07 then broke my back for the second time, and have been living in a camp trailer in NW Montana for 10 years alone in the trees.
I have to say tho, I was a smoker for 40 years, and back about 3 weeks ago, I prayed to our most benevolent lord for help to stop that horrific habit. In about three days, my lungs started hurting so bad I thought I was dying, then all of sudden, I completely lost my desire to smoke cigarettes. I am in my 3rd week and staying as strong as day one. My lungs feel much better, and my spirituality is more in tact than it has been for the last 25 years.
I have begun searching a Russian Orthodox church in my area, and as soon as I have a car running again will get myself back to church.
Thank you so much for this beautiful video.
Our lord lives!
STAY STRONG
Mo, please find me on FB, I would like to send you some Holy Icons of Christ and His Saints.
Ask St Seraphim of Sarov for help with your back.
May Christ by the prayers of His saints heal your back, and give you His life.
God bless you, brother! Stay strong!
To be honest I am an agnostic. For financial gain, I was baptized in the Orthodox church in 1974 when I was 30. I love the rituals and pomp the Church uses and am proud to have gone for it. I try to follow Christs' rules and if Americans would do the same this world would be a better place. Glory to Russia.
I was agnostic until 1988. Everything changed when He let me know who He is.
Had no idea. Thank God and the Blessed Mother.
ГОСПОДИ ИИСУСЕ ХРИСТЕ, СЫНЕ БОЖИЙ, ПОМИЛУЙ НАС И ОГРАДИ ОТ ВСЯКОГО ЗЛА. АМИНЬ.
СЛАВА В ТРОИЦЕ ЕДИНОСУЩНОМУ БОГУ ЗА ВСЁ! ! !
BEAUTIFUL HOPE
Great video, will definitely check the site !
beautiful churches. they have a holy feel.
That's because they're holy places, brother.
So beautiful
Beautiful.
Hello from Russia, dear brothers and sisters! Christ Is In Our Midst! - There is and will be!
Всем привет из России дорогие братья и сестры! Христос Посреди Нас!- Есть и будет!
I was raised Catholic in Maryland but I am trying to marry a Ukrainian girl and planning to convert to the orthodox faith to help raise her daughters with good values.
Orthodoxy … Telling the Truth since 33AD ! God grant Russia Many Years.
I was raised in half catholic half evangelic family
since the russian world cup I converted to Orthodoxy
This is the best you could do.
Congratulation brother.
Love to eastern orthodox christianity from a muslim!
In islam we believe this sect to be of the true people! i would like to share something from the quran.
You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers [to be] the Jews and those who associate others with Allah ; and you will find the nearest of them in affection to the believers those who say, "We are Christians." That is because among them are priests and monks and because they are not arrogant.
5:82
Islamic escatologie also states that the true muslims and the true christians will be allied in the freeing of Constantinople and the Hagia sophia is to be returned to its rightful owners the orthodox christian community.
Thank you, brother.
What Islam doesn't say is where it actually came from … Arian priests who had fallen away from true Faith. In taking writings of these heretic people, Mohammed thought he was doing God's work, especially in trying to eradicate the Truth, but all it did was start civil war that's now gone on for centuries. Peace be unto you, friend.
Please can you send me the source of that please? "Islamic escatologie also states that the true muslims and the true christians will be allied in the freeing of Constantinople and the Hagia sophia is to be returned to its rightful owners the orthodox christian community".
I've heard of it from Orthodox sources but never Islamic, as Turkey would never, without a fight, relinquish Istanbul.(Or MONEY maybe, from the Russians)
Shame though I wrote to you all on facebook asking for help finding a good introduction book or pages on your website that would be good for a Russian orthodox curious individual to learn more about the Russian church more and never heard back despite the message having been read. :(
Its amazing, totally different from what media say, I feel Russians are liberal and great people.
It fulfilled the prophesy of fatima
Yes it DOES. Blessed Mother has a hand in THIS. The EVIL in the Vatican could learn a lesson.
Awesome video brother
What is the hymn being chanted and does anyone have a link?
still need the name??
How do I get the news letter? Can I get it by email?
what happened to David Curry?
I don't think it's the Orthodox praying at 0:27. Looks like Muslims to me.
It's Orthodox Christians praying in this video. Why would an Orthodox Christian film Muslims at prayer to go in a video about Orthodoxy?
Karen Bartlett This is a question for the author, really.
it's a rhetorical question, pointing out the illogical conclusion that "looking like" a Muslim prayer group makes it necessarily a Muslim prayer group. Orthodox also bow during prayer. And the priests wear robes.
Karen Bartlett I am not making any illogical conclusions - I am just reporting what I see. As a Russian Orthodox Christian who has lived in a Muslim country, I cannot help but notice that that partucular scene looks more like Muslims praying. The Orthodox do make prostrations but they do not bring their hands to their faces like that, at least not in Russia. But whatever - if you prefer to believe that Russian Orthidox Christians pray like that, then it's your choice.
Well, perhaps you're right. The video does say "And non-Christians who are intrigued".
Until Christians and Patriots are courageous enough to identify and address the genesis of America's woes, matters will only worsen here in the United States.
America was once great but not for the reason most people believe it was. In fact, quite the opposite - a classic case of Isaiah 5:20, calling evil good and good evil.
Yahweh, God of the Bible, blesses nations (makes them great and prosperous) when they look to Him as their sovereign and thus His moral law as the standard for government and society, per Deuteronomy 4:4-8, 28:1-14, etc. Consequently, America's greatness was the result of the 17th-century Christian Colonial governments of, by, and for God established upon His unchanging moral
law:
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835: "They [the 17th-century Colonials] exercised the rights of sovereignty; they named their magistrates, concluded peace or declared war, made police regulations, and enacted laws as if their allegiance was due only to God. Nothing can be more curious and, at the same time more instructive, than the legislation of that period; it is there that the solution of the great social problem which the United States now presents to the world is to be found [in perfect fulfillment of Deuteronomy 4:5-8, demonstrating the continuing veracity of Yahweh's law and its accompanying blessings, per Deuteronomy 28:1-14].
"Amongst these documents we shall notice, as especially characteristic, the code of laws promulgated by the little State of Connecticut in 1650. The legislators of Connecticut begin with the penal laws, and … they borrow their provisions from the text of Holy Writ ... copied verbatim from the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy.…" (Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 2 vols. (New York: NY: The Colonial Press, 1899) vol. 1, pp. 36-37)
On the other hand, Yahweh curses nations who reject His sovereignty and replace His law with their own man-made surrogates. Thus, America began to be cursed (by God's long suffering only incrementally at first) when the 18th-century founders replaced the 17th-century Colonial governments with their own humanistic government of, by, and for the people based upon capricious Enlightenment traditions. Without repentance for these sins of sedition our complicity therein, it was inevitable that America would find herself teetering on the precipice of moral depravity and destruction.
For more regarding these two polar opposite forms of government, see Chapter 3 "The Preamble: WE THE PEOPLE vs. YAHWEH" of free online book "Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective" at www.bibleversusconstitution.org/BlvcOnline/biblelaw-constitutionalism-pt3.html.
Then find out how much you really know about the Constitution as compared to the Bible. Take our 10-question Constitution Survey in the right-hand sidebar and receive a complimentary copy of a book that examines the Constitution by the Bible.
Pray for Russia and Ukraine. I sing Milost Meera.
It is in prophecy thar Russia would take the world back to God.
The prophesies of Our Lady of Fatima spoke of finally Russia converting. Let's pray for a change in Russian leadership to help speed this along.
Lorraine Pecus Russia is Christian Orthodox and has been converted since the 9th century, with a seventy-year dark age. Let's pray for a change in Western leadership (US-EU), to help the West speed along in getting out of the trap the Soviet Union fell in. Don't expect Russia to ever convert to Catholicism. Russia has four official religions: Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Judaism, and also recognizes shamanic practice and culture. It also comprises of some 130 nationalities that have not perished, like their distant relatives on the North American continent.This is a truly multi-cultural society. Cheers!
Lorraine Pecus ....Russian leadership seems to be doing just fine in the past couple of years. As George commented below, it's the West's leadership that needs 'restoration'
Miranda Rota If I may: Russia was in the pains of rebirth since the fall of the ussr, however, since Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin has been at the helm, the ship has not only avoided the shoals, righted herself and weathered the storm but also has a new destination, whereto she sails full-speed under fair weather (western-concocted tempests-in-a-teacup notwithstanding). Nice use of the word "restoration". Cheers to that restoration! Happy Easter!
Converting out hearts to God in Christianity.
President Putin IS part of the means by which Mary (Theotokos) at Fatima said Russia would be consecrated to God.It's thanks to Pres. Putin and Russia that we haven't already had a nuclear war... Hello?
I love Russia 🥰
I love Russia and it’s the only country I would love to spend the rest of my life in. Right from birth, I always knew that Russia 🇷🇺 is that heaven on earth by its adoption of Karl Marx’s and Lenin’s prescriptions. I won’t hesitate to take the slightest opportunity I can get. I’ll trade everything for it. Get married there and never look back.
rather than building apartment building for housing the poor , to replace the decaying , rusty housing buildings I saw in Russia , they are wasting money in churches , 10000 churches damm !! , what a waste of financial resources , hope America never lets that happen !
mysticman 1 thousands schools, hospitals have been constructed in Russia since 2000
1000 schools compared to 10000 churches ! , churches will not make russians more smart , creative, open minded but schools will , churches are all about influence ,prestige
Yes! Who takes in the poor? You? Who lets the impoverished sleep in their basements, on their doorsteps? You? Who cares for the indigent, poor, sick? You? Thanks for sharing, brother.
there are many billionaire., millionare philanthropists who give to charity , warren buffet , bill gates just to name a few who are the biggest charity Donner of modern times but unlike the church there is no Proselytism that comes with their donations .
when the government fails in its obligations both religious and non religious organisations should play a role but in most cases religious organisations and churches provide help while trying to convert as many as possible , yes the church is good at it .
if the church was really , genuinely all about helping those in need , the church wouldn t be worth billions of $$ (Vatican ) , and be one of the biggest real estate owners in the world , unfortunately in this regard ( real estate ownership) it looks like the Russian orthodox church is following the Vatican `s path .
what the church is doing for the impoverished , sick etc.. is just like a drop of water in a ocean compared to what it could do with its immense fortune , let them 1st stop building those huge megachurches worth hundreds of thousand $$ ,some even million of $$ with their golden ceilings , luxurious monasteries , they are busy accumulating wealth and I sometimes wonder how would Jesus Christ who was clearly against about accumulating riches ,react !!!!
Churches are being built with donations. Apartments are built on private and government money. This is such a stale argument and has been debunked thousands of times
The only Russian Faith is the Native Slavic Faith.
Apparently not.
Cry more, little neopagan