Great is the significance of the feast day of Holy Prince Vladimir for the Russian people, for it is a day that we remember the glorious Illuminator of Rus and the greatest event in its history, the Christening of the entire Russian people, the exact date of...
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The celebration of the Most-holy Theotokos, in honor of her Icon known as the Kazan Icon, was established in thanks for the saving of Moscow and all Russia from the attack of the Poles in 1612. The late 16th and early 17th Centuries are known in Russian history as the Time of...
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Troparion
O foremost in the ranks of apostles, and teachers of the world, intercede with the Master of All to grant safety to the world and to our souls the great mercy.
Kontakion
O Lord, You have...
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THERE was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the...
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Brethren, today and tomorrow the special, long liturgical period of year that began several months ago with the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee, after which came Great Lent and then Holy Week, comes to an end. All this in fact served as preparation for the great...
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“COME AND DWELL IN US”
“Come and dwell in us”! Beginning today, we will again and again raise up our prayers to the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, in hopes that on our sorrowful earthly...
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Archpriest Alexander Men
During his earthly life, Christ the Savior loved to go off alone into the hills, where the heavens seemed closer, and where one could look out at wide panoramas of the earth. In the desert, when He was tempted by the devil and...
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Healing of the blind man.
Today we heard at the Divine Liturgy the account of the Holy Evangelist John the Theologian about the healing by Jesus Christ of the man born blind, that is, who had never seen anything before. It is characteristic that, when...
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Christ is Risen!
Christ and the Samaritan Woman (Jn. 4: 4 - 27). Miniature from a 13th c. Gospels
Our friends, the feast of Holy Pascha has already reached Mid-Feast and is now approaching its...
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