Faith

Case from My Life 1 I am sharing this not to show myself as better than others, but simply to share my experience and how I understood it at that time. Once in Odessa, I began to think that Judaism might be closer to the Lord than Orthodoxy, and I even headed toward a synagogue. I was walking along Stepova Street and turned onto Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Street. A man was walking toward me and asked me, “Is the church open?” (I no longer remember the exact dialogue.) At that moment, I thought he meant the Alekseevskaya Church near Alekseevskaya Square. Then I had a strong feeling that it was important for me to remain in Orthodoxy and to go to church. I had never experienced something like that before.

"Stay close to the Lord and all will be well with you." — Konstantin Pustovoitenko.

Anthony the Great Saint Anthony the Great wrote: “There will come a time when people will go mad. And when they see someone who is not mad, they will rise against him, saying: ‘You are mad, because you are not like us.’”