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Holy Pascha

11 Apr 2026

Khristos Voskrese! Christos Anesti! Christ is Risen!

Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto...

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HOLY WEEK: AN EXPLANATION

06 Apr 2026

Great Lent and Holy Week are two separate fasts, and two separate celebrations. Great Lent ends on Friday of the fifth week (the day before Lazarus Saturday). Holy Week begins immediately thereafter. Let's explore the meaning of each of the solemn days of Passion Week. ...

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The Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem

05 Apr 2026

On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the...

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Sermon for the Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt

28 Mar 2026

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

We have now reached the end of the most eventful week of the Forty Day Fast, as we celebrate the life of our...

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Third Sunday of the Great Lent. Adoration of the Holy Cross.

13 Mar 2026

Troparion

O Lord, save Your people, and bless Your inheritance. Grant victories to the Orthodox Christians, over their adversaries. And by virtue of Your Cross...

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The Pure in Heart Shall See God: On St. Gregory Palamas

08 Mar 2026

In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit!

On the second Sunday of Great Lent the memory of St. Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica, is celebrated. Archbishop Gregory was an enlightened man and a remarkable theologian...

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The Triumph of Orthodoxy

27 Feb 2026

The Triumph of Orthodoxy? That sounds brash and...

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Being with Christ on the Cross - Sermon for Forgiveness Sunday

22 Feb 2026

Woe is me! No more can I endure the shame. I who was once king of all God’s creatures upon the earth have now become a prisoner, led astray by evil counsel. I, who was once clothed in the glory of immortality must now, as one condemned to die, wrap myself miserably...

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The Parable of the Prodigal Son

07 Feb 2026

The parable of the Prodigal Son is one of the most well known. Some of its expressions have passed into the ordinary, spoken language, while several illustrations and pictures relating to it are well known to us from childhood.

In the preceding two...

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The Parable of the Publican and the Pharisee

31 Jan 2026

Continuing to denounce His adversaries, especially the Pharisees, Christ utters a parable that supplements the preceding two - those of the lost sheep and the prodigal son. The following parable - of the publican and the Pharisee - is recorded in the eighteenth chapter of the...

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