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Orthodox Latvia : St John of Riga

Presented by Protodeacon Basil Yakimov
Author Unknown
Lecture 8 from the 2004 Youth Conference

Janis (John) Pommer was born to a peasant family in the district of Vendzen, Latvia in 1876. He had no Russian blood, even though he later showed a great love for Russia. His great-grandfather had been one of the first to accept the Orthodox Faith in this region, and as a result he had been subjected to severe persecution.

At that time there was a great interest in Orthodoxy among the peasants of Lithlandia, thanks to the preaching which had been begun in the Latvian language.Continue Reading

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Identity and Intimacy

Priest David Moser
Lecture 5 from the 2004 Youth Conference

About 7 times a minute in Australia, as well as in the US a great miracle occurs, a child is born. From the moment of his birth each child begins to be shaped by his interaction with the world around him. At the very beginning, the child knows nothing of the world around him and he begins to figure out what the nature of this world is. Continue Reading

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The Protection of the Mother of God: In History, and In our Lives

Priest James Carles
Lecture 1 from the 2004 Youth Conference

Vladika, Fathers, Brothers & Sisters:

My talk to you this morning is about ‘The Protection of the Mother of God: In History and In Our Lives’.  In it I want to do two things.  The first is to show what an active, life-and-history-changing help the Mother of God is to us. Continue Reading

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St John of San Francisco and Shanghai, An Apostle to the World from the Russian Church

Priest David Moser
Lecture 2 from the 2004 Youth Conference

How many here think that in the years to come you will be married? How many will be a monastic? How many of you think you will be a priest, or the wife of a priest? How many of you think you will be an archimandrite, abbot or abbess of a monastery? How many of you think that you might even be a bishop?

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