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

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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