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27 Feb 2017

The Beginning of Great Lent & the Penitential Canon of St. Andrew of Crete

In the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete we see the images of Biblical characters pass before us one by one, both the just and sinners spoken of in the Old...

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22 Feb 2017

 The days immediately preceding Great Lent are often filled with a great deal of fuss and various concerns.  After all, at home, the refrigerator has not yet been cleared of non-Lenten foods, our heads remain filled with thoughts of the still-ongoing merriment in the...

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18 Feb 2017

In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Today, on our preparation journey towards Lent, we have come to the ultimate stage: we are confronted with judgment. If we pay attention to it, next week our spiritual destiny will be in our...

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14 Feb 2017

The Feast of the Meeting of the Lord is one of those holidays that we for the most part allow to pass by with little thought or reflection, without delving into what takes place on that great day.

On the Nativity, Christ comes down from the Heavens...

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10 Feb 2017

 For the Sunday of the Prodigal Son

Two Sundays before the beginning of Great Lent, the parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15: 11-32) is read. That is the reason that particular Sunday came to be known as the ”Sunday of the Prodigal Son.” In order...

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30 Jan 2017

Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)

We commemorate today the Assembly of Russia’s New Martyrs and Confessors – all those who martyred in the years of severe persecutions against the faith and the Church of Christ. It is a great occasion for the whole...

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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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