The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Mark. (9:17-31)
Today’s reading is given to us on this, the fourth Sunday of Great and Holy Lent. This day we...
подробнее...The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Mark. (9:17-31)
Today’s reading is given to us on this, the fourth Sunday of Great and Holy Lent. This day we...
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O Lord, save Your people, and bless Your inheritance. Grant victories to the Orthodox Christians, over their adversaries. And by virtue of Your Cross...
подробнее...The goal of the striving of fasting, the striving of all our struggles – of repentance, prayer, and our entreaties – is to aspire toward the unveiling in us of the image of God inscribed in our nature and essence by the hand of God the Creator...
подробнее...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-...
подробнее...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...
подробнее...And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord; (As it is written in the law of the LORD, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to...
подробнее...Continuing to denounce His adversaries, especially the Pharisees, Christ utters a parable that supplements the preceding two - those of the lost sheep and the prodigal son. The following parable - of the publican and the Pharisee - is recorded in...
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