Khristos Voskrese! Christos Anesti! Christ is Risen!
Now upon the first day of the week, very early...
подробнее...Khristos Voskrese! Christos Anesti! Christ is Risen!
Now upon the first day of the week, very early...
подробнее...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...
подробнее...And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own...
подробнее...The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Mark. (9:17-31)
Today’s reading is given to us on this, the fourth Sunday of Great and Holy Lent. This day we...
подробнее...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...
подробнее...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...
подробнее...The days immediately preceding Great Lent are often filled with a great deal of fuss and various concerns. After all, at home, the refrigerator has not yet been cleared of non-Lenten foods, our heads remain filled with thoughts of the still-...
подробнее...In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Today, on our preparation journey towards Lent, we have come to the ultimate stage: we are confronted with judgment. If we...
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