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The Entry of our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary into the Temple

03 Dec 2019

Troparion

Today is the prelude of God's goodwill and the heralding of the salvation of mankind. In the temple of God, the Virgin is presented openly, and she proclaimeth Christ unto...

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ALARM

30 Nov 2019

2 ^nd Gospel Reading

(Mark 16:1-8)

When the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome had...

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DOUBT

23 Nov 2019

The 1st Gospel Reading (Matthew 28:16-20)

Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted....

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THE NATURE OF ANGELS — THEIR HIERARCHY AND MINISTRATIONS

21 Nov 2019

According to the Holy Scriptures, the angels, human beings, and all nature were created by God. With the words, “In the beginning God created Heaven and earth” (Gen. 1:1), we have the first indication that God created the...

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LOVE

15 Nov 2019

11 ^th Resurrection Gospel

(John 21: 15-25)

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OBEDIENCE

05 Nov 2019

10 ^th Resurrection Gospel

(John 21:1-14)

After these things Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed he himself. There were together Simon Peter, and...

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BEHOLDING

01 Nov 2019

9 ^th Resurrection Gospel

(John 20:19-31)

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COMMEMORATION OF THE HOLY FATHERS OF THE SEVENTH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL (787). THE HOLY ICONS.

26 Oct 2019

The Seventh Ecumenical Council, convoked by the Empress Irene and met at Nicaea from September 24 to October 13, 787. Patriarch Tarasios (commemorated February 25) presided. The council ended almost fifty years of iconoclast persecution and established the...

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SERMON ON THE WIDOW OF NAIN (21ST SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST 2015)

19 Oct 2019

The Gospel reading for this Sunday, the story of the widow of Nain, is very brief; yet like every passage of Holy Scripture, it contains many layers of meaning, each of them true,...

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THE PROTECTION OF OUR MOST HOLY LADY THE THEOTOKOS AND EVER-VIRGIN MARY

11 Oct 2019

Troparion

Overshadowed by thy coming, O Mother of God, we the right faithful people, celebrate today with splendor, and gazing at thine all-precious image, we say with compunction: Cover us with thy precious omophorion, and deliver us from all evil,...

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