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12 Mar 2022

Great Lent and Pascha are the brightest and most instructive times in the Orthodox Calendar. That season began with Forgiveness Sunday (6 March), when we mutually asked and received forgiveness of one another.  It is a season filled with...

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Anger
04 Mar 2022

"Everyone should be … slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires” (James 1: 19-20)

Meditation:
Anger has been compared more than once, and rightly so, to insanity. An angry...

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04 Mar 2022

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,...

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26 Feb 2022

I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ who will come in glory to judge the living and the dead. (7th article of the Symbol of Faith)

 

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19 Feb 2022

The parable of the Prodigal Son is one of the most well known. Some of its expressions have passed into the ordinary, spoken language, while several illustrations and pictures relating to it are well known to us from childhood.

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15 Feb 2022

 

          The Feast of the Meeting of the Lord is one of those holidays that we for the most part allow to pass by with little thought or reflection, without delving into what takes place on that great day...

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12 Feb 2022

Continuing to denounce His adversaries, especially the Pharisees, Christ utters a parable that supplements the preceding two - those of the lost sheep and the prodigal son. The following parable - of the publican and the Pharisee - is recorded in...

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05 Feb 2022

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...

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14 Jan 2022

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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