In accordance with the rite established by the Church, we exchange a Paschal kiss during Matins on the first day of Holy Pascha. The rite is both important and comforting.
Ordinarily, when we exchange that kiss, we say, “Christ is Risen!” and are...
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Protopresbyter Vitaly Borovoy
When you and I celebrate Paschal Services, we all feel a surge of joy and gladness. When we say, "Christ is Risen!" and answer "Truly He is Risen!" There resounds in our voices not...
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St. Mary, who is known as Mary of Egypt, lived from the middle of the fifth century to the beginning of the sixth century. Her youth did not presage anything good. Mary was twelve years old when she left her home for the city of Alexandria. Being free of parental...
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Unction is a holy mystery in which a priest or a bishop, by anointing a sick person with consecrated oil, asks, together with the Church, for God's grace which heals the sickness of the soul and the body.
During his earthly life, Our Lord Jesus Christ raised the...
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Bishop Ignaty Brianchaninov left us the following precious instruction: "In order to live spiritually and draw breath from grace, we must continually exhale the ashes of sin." We sin almost constantly, if not in our deeds, then in our thoughts and feelings. Therefore it is...
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Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann
To understand the various liturgical particularities of the Lenten period, we must remember that they express and convey to us the spiritual meaning of Lent and are related to the central idea of Lent...
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Priest Victor Klimenko. Reflections before the Feast of the Meeting of the Lord
The service of the Meeting of the Lord repeatedly tells us about the joy that the elder Simeon – and, in him, the entire Old Testament Israel – felt when he took in his arms the...
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