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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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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In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. My beloved Christians, in today's Gospel we read about something which was a common occurrence in the latter years of the life of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
As we know, once our Lord was...
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By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; For he waited for the...
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"Take heed then how you hear; for to him who has will more be given, and from him who has not, even what he thinks he has will be taken away. "(Luke 8: 18)
Saint Luke, like Saint...
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The story of the Widow of Nain is one of the most powerful of the Gospel stories about Jesus. As he is about to enter a city called Nain Jesus meets some men carrying the corpse of a young man who has just died. He is told that he is the only son...
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The Sunday before last the Holy Church offered for our attention the parable about the talents. A talent is that strength which God gives to us for the fulfillment of His commandments of love for God and neighbor. Last Sunday...
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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...The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them...
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