In ancient times the Liturgy of the Great Saturday as other Lenten Liturgies took place at sunset and so it begins with Vespers. As Vespers is always the beginning of the service of the next day, and the next day is Easter, the Liturgy of the Great Saturday combines two moments: on the one hand […]
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit! During two thousand years already we, Christians, either seek for God or run away from Him. Sometimes the faith in our souls is changed by betrayal. So since ancient times until now, the same people, we, Christians, in the same […]
Христос Воскресе! – Воистину Воскресе! Christ is Risen! – Indeed He is Risen! (In truth He is Risen!) Χριστος Aνεστη! Beloved in the Lord brothers and sisters! Today the whole Christian world celebrates the Resurrection of Christ. Today every church, every family rejoices in the Lord Jesus, Who suffered and arose from the dead for […]
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit! We’ve just heard the Holy Gospel of Saint John telling us a very important event from the life of the Lord God and our Saviour Jesus Christ, namely, the rising Lazarus from the dead. This event in the Church is […]
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit! When the Lord says, “My kingdom is not of this world” (John 18, 36), it’s clear that, first of all, He warns us against crazy mistake of Jerusalemn inhabitants who met their King as a man who came to solve […]
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit! Ascending to the Cross suffering, the Lord asks His disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” He wants to know the opinion of people in order to ask them more important question, “And who do you say that I […]
Today is the fourth Sunday of Great Lent. This day is devoted to memory of Saint John of the Ladder. John of the Ladder was a great hermit, a great monk of Sinai monastery.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit! Four times a year we celebrate and venerate to the precious and Life-giving cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The first time – during the Passion Week, when reading the Holy Gospel of Passion, we see how the Saint Crusification, […]
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit! Today on the second Sunday of Great Lent, the Church opens before us the well-known page of the Holy Gospel about the cure of a paralytic man. Four men were carrying a stretcher with this sick man but when they […]
Today is the Sunday of Orthodoxy, but we should remember that it isn’t the triumph of the Orthodox over other confessions and other people, but the feast of God’s victory, the victory of truth, the victory of Christ over all weakness of human mind. Because which of us can say that he believes in God […]
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