Commemorated on August 1/ 14
In the Greek Chasoslov (Orologion) of 1897 is explained thus the derivation of this feast: "By reason of the sicknesses, often everywhere occurring in August, from of old customarily it was done at Constantinople to...
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By St. Nikolaj Velimirovich
Prince Vladimir was the first to embrace and choose the Heavenly Kingdom together with the Russian people. I say, “with the people” because there were separate individuals before his time who were joining...
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Archimandrite Raphael (Karelin)
Compassion is founded on love for someone: love renders the other party as it were, another “self,” one with you. Sentimentality is grounded in self-love: it makes one sad not as the result of the suffering...
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St. John explains the great sacrifices of the Tsar and the Royal family for Russia, and the great sin incurred by the Russian people for the murder of their God-annointed sovereign.
Sermon given by St. John during the memorial service...
Die every day, and you will live forever.
St. Antony the Great
Being mindful of death is a virtue that ordinary people practice rarely, but it is something of which the Fathers speak a great deal in the Philokalia. It is one...
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Holy Hierarch St John (Maximovitch)
The Day commemorating the saints who have shown forth in the Russian land points to that spiritual heaven beneath which the Russian land was founded and lived.
Before...
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HOMILY ON THE SUNDAY OF ALL SAINTS
St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)
Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before...
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+Bishop Alexander (Mileant)
Every person carries seeds of goodness. But no seed can germinate and ripen without moisture and light. For this reason everyone who truly craves righteousness has to recognize that without God’s...
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Archpriest Alexander Men
During his earthly life, Christ the Savior loved to go off alone into the hills, where the heavens seemed closer, and where one could look out at wide panoramas of the earth. In the desert, when He was tempted by...
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The seventh in a series of Archbishop John Shakhovskoy’s reflections on the Resurrection Gospel readings.
FAITH
7th Resurrection Gospel (John 20:1-10)
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