For the Sunday of the Prodigal Son
Two Sundays before the beginning of Great Lent, the parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15: 11-32) is read. That is the reason that particular Sunday came to be known as the ”Sunday of the Prodigal Son.” In order...
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Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)
We commemorate today the Assembly of Russia’s New Martyrs and Confessors – all those who martyred in the years of severe persecutions against the faith and the Church of Christ. It is a great occasion for the whole...
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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...
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The depth of the Divine Providence guiding us to salvation is made manifest in the major events of the life of Our Lord Savior Jesus Christ more patently than anywhere else.
The conception and the birth of Our Lord by the Every Virgin Mary and the...
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On behalf of the clergy and Parish Council, and with peace in our hearts, we congratulate our faithful — our dear parishioners and readers of “Parish Life” — with the great and most-glorious Feast of the Nativity of Christ, the Feast that brings us reverent...
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Every time that a chronological mark of a given period of life is struck, the unrelenting and powerful nature of time is felt with particular urgency. Today we feel this especially.
In these moments every one of us, aware of the action of Divine...
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From The Way of the Ascetics
By Tito Colliander
FASTING, neither above nor below your ability, will help you in your vigil. One should not ponder divine matters on a full stomach, say the ascetics. For the well-fed, even the most...
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Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)
Orthodox Divine Services are an enormous treasure, one which we must carefully keep. Whether in the Liturgy, Vespers, Matins, the Hours, Midnight Office or Compline, from the very opening exclamation we immerse...
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Bishop Basil Rodzianko
The Feast of the Entrance! The Entrance is a special day for Russia.
The Monastery of the Entrance and the Optina Elders went down in history like none other in the collective service of...
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The Nativity Fast serves to bless the conclusion of the year with a mystical renewal of spiritual unity with God and preparation for our celebration of the Nativity of Christ.
St. Leo the Great wrote, “The custom of abstinence is fixed for...
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