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26 Apr 2019

St. Seraphim (Sobolev)

Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him (Rom. 6:8)...

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26 Apr 2019

ARCHPRIEST ALEXANDER MEN (+1990)

The last Gospel of Christ, the Gospel according to John, tells of the Lord’s trial and of His suffering, death, and burial. Over the course of three short years the Lord preached daily. As the Apostle Mark says, He and...

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24 Apr 2019

Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokalamsk
(For Great Thursday)

“Whoso eateth My Flesh, and drinketh My Blood, dwelleth in Me, and I in him.” [John 6:56]  In those words, the Lord speaks of two things: of His being in us and of...

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21 Apr 2019

“O hills and valleys, the
multitude of men, and all
creation, weep and lament
with me, the Mother of your God.”

Today the grace of the Holy Spirit has gathered us together.

“Today the grace of the Holy Spirit has gathered us...

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19 Apr 2019

On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord. And Jesus, when he...

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12 Apr 2019

Sergei Khudiev

 

This week of Great Lent, the Church celebrates the memory of St. Mary of Egypt. The story of St. Mary is the story of a repentant harlot. Why does the Church find this story so important? Why does the...

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06 Apr 2019

GOSPEL Luke 1:26-38

 The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David...

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23 Mar 2019

Spirituality of the Christian West and the Orthodox East

(Second Sunday of Great Lent)

 

All the deviations of the Roman Catholic confession from the ideals of the ancient, undivided Church could not but affect its spiritual life. M.V. Lodyzhensky, in the second...

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11 Mar 2019

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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01 Mar 2019

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 pay attention to it, next week our spiritual destiny will be in our...

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