RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL OF ST.JOHN THE BAPTIST

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)...

Proper Confession

Before confession, each person must attempt to recall all of his sins, voluntary and involuntary, must attentively go over his life in order, to the extent possible, to recall all of his sins, not...
Holy Water

Liturgy for the Feast day of Great Prince St. Vladimir, we serve the rite of the Lesser Blessing of the Waters, in commemoration of the Baptism of Rus’. We believe that in this regard it would...
The Mystery of Unction

The Mystery of Unction is a sacred action in which, while the body is anointed with oil, the grace of God which heals infirmities of soul and body is called down upon a sick person (Orthodox...
On the Rite of Churching

Baptism in and of itself is already churching in the most profound and full sense of this word, for it makes a man a member of the Body of Christ, a child of God (I Corinthians 12:13).