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16 Jan 2017

The Baptism of our Lord Jesus Christ is one of the twelve great feasts, one which is celebrated with no less solemnity than is the Nativity of Christ. One might say that the Nativity and the Baptism are two related holidays comprising one single celebration, the Feast of...

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12 Jan 2017

The depth of the Divine Providence guiding us to salvation is made manifest in the major events of the life of Our Lord Savior Jesus Christ more patently than anywhere else.

The conception and the birth of Our Lord by the Every Virgin Mary and the...

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02 Jan 2017

On behalf of the clergy and Parish Council, and with peace in our hearts, we congratulate our faithful — our dear parishioners and readers of “Parish Life” — with the great and most-glorious Feast of the Nativity of Christ,   the Feast that brings us reverent...

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28 Dec 2016

Every time that a chronological mark of a given period of life is struck, the unrelenting and powerful nature of time is felt with particular urgency. Today we feel this especially.

In these moments every one of us, aware of the action of Divine...

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19 Dec 2016

From The Way of the Ascetics
By Tito Colliander

FASTING, neither above nor below your ability, will help you in your vigil. One should not ponder divine matters on a full stomach, say the ascetics. For the well-fed, even the most...

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09 Dec 2016

Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)

Orthodox Divine Services are an enormous treasure, one which we must carefully keep. Whether in the Liturgy, Vespers, Matins, the Hours, Midnight Office or Compline, from the very opening exclamation we immerse...

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02 Dec 2016

Bishop Basil Rodzianko

The Feast of the Entrance! The Entrance is a special day for Russia.

The Monastery of the Entrance and the Optina Elders went down in history like none other in the collective service of...

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22 Nov 2016

The Nativity Fast serves to bless the conclusion of the year with a mystical renewal of spiritual unity with God and preparation for our celebration of the Nativity of Christ.  

St. Leo the Great wrote, “The custom of abstinence is fixed for...

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26 Oct 2016

October 31st marks exactly 19 years since the martyric death of Jose Munoz-Cortes, to whom God entrusted guardianship for 15 years of the myrrh-streaming Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, which later became known as the "Montreal" Icon.  Below is the first obituary...

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07 Oct 2016

This is one of the most beloved feasts of the Russian people, one of the most pleasing. When I have occasion to speak about how the All-Pure Virgin covered the worshippers in the Blachernae Church with her omophorion, I always point out that there were, of course, different...

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