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30 Apr 2016

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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12 Apr 2016

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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04 Apr 2016

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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24 Mar 2016

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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22 Feb 2016

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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Meeting of the Lord. Andrey Rublev
08 Feb 2016

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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