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04 May 2024

We have been forgiven and redeemed. Christ is Risen! In those three words, everything is said. In them lies the foundation of our faith, our hope, our love, the Christian life, all of our wisdom, our enlightenment, the Holy Church, sincere...

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HOLY WEEK: AN EXPLANATION

29 Apr 2024

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...

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St. Mary of Egypt

20 Apr 2024

THE LIFE OF THE MONASTIC MARY OF EGYPT

Commemorated on the 5th Sunday of the Great Lent, April 21

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WHAT THE CROSS MEANS FOR CHRISTIANS (For the Third Sunday of Lent)

05 Apr 2024

“O Invincible and incomprehensible and divine power of the precious and life-giving Cross, forsake not us sinners.”
(From the order of Great Compline)

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We Are Partakers of the Divine: Sermon on the Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas

30 Mar 2024

The goal of the striving of fasting, the striving of all our struggles – of repentance, prayer, and our entreaties – is to aspire toward the unveiling in us of the image of God inscribed in our nature and essence by the hand of God the Creator Himself...

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WHEREIN LIES THE TRIUMPH OF ORTHODOXY?

23 Mar 2024

Priest Nicholai Bulgakov

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GREAT LENT

16 Mar 2024

The essence of Great Lent, which lasts six weeks and which leads us to Passion Week and to the Feast of Feasts, Pascha, can best be characterized as “sweet sorrow.” During this time period, which is sorrowful and at the same time exalted, the image of man’s sinfulness,...

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Sermon on the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia

03 Feb 2024

Today we celebrate the memory of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian land. These are all the multitude of bishops, priests, monks, nuns, laymen, laywomen, and children who were killed or suffered gravely because of their faith and their...

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The Rich Ruler and the Average Orthodox Parishioner

27 Jan 2024

ARCHPRIEST TED BOBOSH | 31 JANUARY 2016

“Now a certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit...

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THE HOLY THEOPHANY OF OUR LORD, GOD, AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST

21 Jan 2024

Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all...

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