Troparion
Today is the prelude of God's goodwill and the heralding of the salvation of mankind. In the temple of God, the...
подробнее...Troparion
Today is the prelude of God's goodwill and the heralding of the salvation of mankind. In the temple of God, the...
подробнее...The parable of the Good Samaritan is well known to many of us from childhood. It is customary to think that we know it well. But do we? On the face of it, we sort of know it. But really, it is only possible to spiritually know some parable, some...
подробнее...In the 13th century, during the dreadful period of the Tartar invasion of Russia, the devastated province of Kursk was emptied of people and its principal city, Kursk, became a wilderness. Now, the residents of the city of Rylsk, which had been preserved from...
подробнее...In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
We meet with a very different scene in today’s Gospel than the one with which we ended last Sunday. In the verse just before today’s...
подробнее...The Reading of the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke 16:19-31
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подробнее...The parable of the Sower and the other parables, set forth in the 13th chapter of the Gospel according to Matthew and in the parallel places in the Gospels according to Mark and Luke, were spoken by Christ during such a large concourse of people...
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31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
32 For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for...
подробнее...In the times of the Gospel, a talent denoted a very large sum of money. A talent corresponded to sixty minas. A mina equaled a hundred dinarii. During the earthly life of the Saviour, an ordinary worker earned one dinarius a day.
... подробнее...14/27 September
Two events in connection with the Honorable Cross of Christ are commemorated on this day: first, the finding of the...
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