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12 Apr 2025

On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord. And Jesus,...

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05 Apr 2025

At the end of the fifth week of Great Lent we are given great comfort and encouragement by the Most Holy Theotokos in the service to her called the Laudation of the Mother of God.

At the Matins...

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29 Mar 2025

St. John Climacus is honored by the Church as a great ascetic and as the author of a remarkable work entitled, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, and therefore he has been named “Climacus,” or “of the Ladder.”

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15 Mar 2025

Spirituality of the Christian West and the Orthodox East

(Second Sunday of Great Lent)

 

All the deviations of the Roman Catholic confession from the ideals of the...

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08 Mar 2025

 

 

Priest Nicholai Bulgakov

 

 

Outwardly it may seem that evil...

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02 Mar 2025

In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

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01 Mar 2025

Today Is The Sunday of the Dread Judgment, and it is natural for us to speak of the Dread Judgment and of the signs of the end of the world. No one knows that day; only God the Father knows; but the signs of its approach are given...

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23 Feb 2025

The Second to Last Sunday before the beginning of Great Lent is called Meatfare Sunday since it is officially the last day before Easter for eating meat. It commemorates Christ's parable of the Last Judgment (Mt 25:31-46). We are reminded...

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15 Feb 2025

The parable of the Prodigal Son is one of the most well known. Some of its expressions have passed into the ordinary, spoken language, while several illustrations and pictures relating to it are well known to us from childhood.

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