Quote of the Day: Leo Tolstoy

"What’s important is that you do pray every day; that’s very good. It is totally different from going to church. There the people would say ‘what a good person – he remembered the Nativity of the Mother of God and went to church!’ But to pray to God by yourself, to cross yourself, to address Him when no one knows what you have said to Him, what you have asked, is a different thing altogether."

Russian Orthodox Church Confirms Tolstoy's Excommunication

The Moscow Patriarchate has refused to rescind the Russian Orthodox Church's excommunication of Leo Tolstoy in honor of the upcoming centenary of his death, stating that the Holy Synod's excommunication recognized what he himself had already done in publicly separating himself from the Church. More here.