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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October 31st marks exactly 19 years since the martyric death of Jose Munoz-Cortes, to whom God entrusted guardianship for 15 years of the myrrh-streaming Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, which later became known as the "Montreal" Icon. Below is the first obituary...
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This is one of the most beloved feasts of the Russian people, one of the most pleasing. When I have occasion to speak about how the All-Pure Virgin covered the worshippers in the Blachernae Church with her omophorion, I always point out that there were, of course, different...
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“By this sign shall ye conquer!”
These holy words spoken from Heaven came down on the Emperor Constantine in the fourth century. Responding to this message the Emperor commanded that the shields of his soldiers be emblazoned with...
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ON THE FEAST OF THE NATIVITY OF THE THEOTOKOS
God chose someone to be the person through whom He would become Man. Had that one not existed, our salvation would not have been accomplished.
In the service to the...
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This month our parish will mark the 67th anniversary of its founding. On September 11, 1949, the Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist and Forerunner of Christ, the Holy Hierarch St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco celebrated the Divine Liturgy for the first...
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On August 28 (August 15, Old Style), the Orthodox Church celebrates the Feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos. The importance of this Feast in the conscientiousness of the Orthodox Church is underscored by the fact that it is presided by a two-week Fast....
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Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)
During the earthly life of the Lord Jesus Christ, there were very few joyful, luminous moments. God was Incarnate and came into this world above all in order to plunge into our darkness and to share our sorrow...
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Commemorated on August 1/ 14
In the Greek Chasoslov (Orologion) of 1897 is explained thus the derivation of this feast: "By reason of the sicknesses, often everywhere occurring in August, from of old customarily it was done at Constantinople to...
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By St. Nikolaj Velimirovich
Prince Vladimir was the first to embrace and choose the Heavenly Kingdom together with the Russian people. I say, “with the people” because there were separate individuals before his time who were joining...
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