RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL OF ST.JOHN THE BAPTIST

Basic divine services

• Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, Prot.V.Potapov

  The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts may be characterized, without exaggeration, as the heart, the center of the services of Great Lent. In some ancient manuscripts of the service books, it is...

• Minor Words of the Liturgy, Fr. George Benigsen

  "WISDOM!" We hear this word repeated frequently during the services in our churches. In the first place it is intended to remind us and bear witness before us and before the world that everything...

• Notes on the Liturgy and the Church, S.I.Fudel

  Christianity found its permanent religious structure in the Mystical Supper, and one could say that Christianity is the Mystical Supper. The Mystery - all Christianity, the disciples gathered around...

• The All-Night Vigil -- The Evening Sacrifice, by Fr. V.Potapov

  CHRIST DENOUNCED THE SCRIBES of His time for elevating rituals and ceremonies to the level of exalted religious virtues, and He taught that only service offered "in spirit and in truth" (John 4:24)...