(Second Sunday of Great Lent)
All the deviations of the Roman Catholic confession from the ideals of the ancient, undivided Church could not but affect its spiritual life. M.V. Lodyzhensky, in the second...
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The essence of Great Lent, which lasts six weeks and which leads us to Passion Week and to the Feast of Feasts, Pascha, can best be characterized as “sweet sorrow.” During this time period, which is sorrowful and at the same time exalted, the image of man’s sinfulness,...
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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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The theme of the 2nd Sunday of the period of preparation for Great Lent recalls the parable of the Prodigal Son.
The parable of the Prodigal Son is one of the most well known. Some of its expressions have passed into the ordinary, spoken language,...
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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.
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Archbishop Nikon (Rklitsky)
(An abridged version of a sermon on the Lesser Consecration of the newly constructed lower part of our church, on Saturday, March 23/April 5, 1958.)
(…) Only here, in God’s church,...
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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 Theophany, for together...
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“The Lord of all endures circumcision, and He circumcises man’s sins, for He is good.” This is the meaning of today’s Church feast. The Circumcision was established by God and commanded through Abraham to all the chosen people of the Jews. It was a sign of entering into the...
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On December 25 (January 7 on the civil calendar) we celebrate the Great Feast of the Nativity, according to the flesh, of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The Church calls upon its faithful to prepare themselves, over the course of a 40-day period, to worthily greet that Feast. ...
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8th Gospel Reading (John 20: 11-18)
But Mary stood without at the sepulcher weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulcher, and seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body...
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