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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7th Resurrection Gospel (John 20:1-10)
The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark,...
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(Luke 24:36-53)
And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they...
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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 invasion, often...
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“Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire” (Ps. 104:4). These are the words of the King and Prophet David. With these words, he said that God created the wisest minds, the fleshless spirits, servants loyal to Him, who burn with...
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“Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire” (Ps. 104:4). These are the words of the King and Prophet David. With these words, he said that God created the wisest minds,...
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The celebration of the Most-holy Theotokos, in honor of her Icon known as the Kazan Icon, was established in thanks for the saving of Moscow and all Russia from the attack of the Poles in 1612. The late 16th and early...
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