Pearl of Great PriceOct 22, 20215 minOct 8 Japans Shindler's List Mrs. Yukiko Sugihara, who had helped her husband, Chiune, rescue thousands of Jews from Lithuania during World War II. They were a...
Pearl of Great PriceSep 28, 20213 minSep 23 - Khomiakov, Russian Theologian of CommunityToday in 1860 we remember the Death from cholera of the Russian theologian Alexei Khomiakov, while treating peasants during an epidemic....
Pearl of Great PriceSep 20, 20216 minSep 13 Dostoevsky and the Brothers KaramazovToday in Christian History we go back to year 1874 and travel to Russia where today the writer Fyodor Doestoevsky finished the first...
Pearl of Great PriceSep 9, 20214 minSep 4 Croatia, Fascism, Catholics & OrthodoxToday in 1941, the abbot of the Sisatovac monastery in Croatia, Rafailo Momcilovic would die, he had been kidnapped by the Ustaše on 25...
Pearl of Great PriceAug 28, 20213 minApr 25 Ivan the Terrible's Monk Today in 1549, Adrian of Ondrusov, an Orthodox monk died after being killed by robbers. Now venerated by the Orthodox church as a saint,...
Pearl of Great PriceAug 11, 20213 minAug 9 Herman the Wonderworker of all AlaskaToday in 1970, a solemn liturgy at Holy Resurrection Orthodox Cathedral on Kodiak Island, Alaska, glorified St. Herman, as the...
Pearl of Great PriceJul 31, 20213 minJuly 31 Tsarist Troops storm Mount AthosToday in 1913, Russian troops stormed the St Panteleimon Monastery on Mount Athos and deported about 80 Russian monks, Six months earlier...
Pearl of Great PriceJul 6, 20216 minJuly 7 Alexander Solzhenitsyn Repenting in the Gulag The Russian writer Alexander Solzenhitsyn was sentenced in his absence to an eight year term in a labour camp in Siberia. He would be...
Pearl of Great PriceJul 4, 20214 minJuly 4 Pulcheria and the Theotokos Today in 432 a large crowd descended on the church in Constantinople cheering “Many years to Pulcheria! Many years to the empress!” They...
Pearl of Great PriceJun 22, 20213 minJune 23 Walter Ciszek - With God in RussiaToday in 1941 we travel to Russia where the American Jesuit Walter J. Ciszek was arrested under suspicion of being a spy for the Vatican...
Pearl of Great PriceJun 11, 20214 minJune 12 St Petersburg outlasts LeningradOn the 12 June 1991, the citizens of Leningrad overwhelming voted to return the name of the city to St Petersburg. It was a clear...
Pearl of Great PriceMay 24, 20216 minMay 25 The Ecumenical Imperative it’s the 25th of May and on this day in Christian History we go back to year 1995 and travel to Rome where Ut Unum Sint, the first...
Pearl of Great PriceMay 6, 20213 minMay 7 The Pope visits Romania, building bridges with the Orthodox At the turn of the Millennium the first Slavic Pope, John Paul II made big steps towards reconciliation with the Orthodox Church. This...
Pearl of Great PriceApr 3, 20213 minApr 4 Easter Sunday Today in the West, Christians celebrate Easter, the touchstone of the Christian Faith. In todays reflection we look at the boldness of...
Pearl of Great PriceMar 26, 20213 minMar 25 The emperor who became a monk Today in 717 we travel to Constantinople when Emperor Theodosius III abdicated and retired to a monastery with his son. In the podcast...
Pearl of Great PriceMar 8, 20213 minMar 9 Sebaste Martyrs - frozen to deathIts 320, the final years of the Roman Empire and we travel to Turkey, remembering how today 40 Roman Soldiers froze to death rather than...
Pearl of Great PriceFeb 21, 20211 minFeb 21 - World Council of ChurchesToday we go back to year 1991 and travel to Canberra in Australia, and the closing of the 7th assembly of the World Council of Churches. ...
Pearl of Great PriceFeb 11, 20211 minFeb 12 - Pope and Patriach meet in CubaToday we only go back to 2016 and look at a truly historical meeting, the first time the leaders of the Catholic Church and the Moscow...
Pearl of Great PriceFeb 2, 20213 minFeb 2 - Candlemas Today Christians all over the world celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the temple. In the Spanish Speaking world the...
Pearl of Great PriceJan 31, 20213 minJan 24 - Russia adopts the Gregorian calendarToday in 1918 the Gregorian calendar was introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars. This brought another...