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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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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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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,...
подробнее...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,...
подробнее...“By this sign shall ye conquer!”
These holy words spoken from Heaven came down on the Emperor Constantine in the fourth century. Responding to this message the Emperor commanded that the shields of his soldiers be emblazoned with the Holy...
подробнее...The birth of any person is a mysterious event. This is not just another event for the registrar; a new being is come into the world, filled with inextricable mystery. In fact: what will this newborn person bring to the world, and what will life give him? This is why parents...
подробнее...Is one saved by faith alone, or by faith and works?
This argument, an argument that in the light of Apostolic Tradition is so obviously pointless, has never troubled the Church, and in fact could never trouble It. In fact, faith is not...
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