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An Introduction to Lent

Bishop Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh This talk was given by Metropolitan Anthony to the London Group of the Fellowship of Saint Alban and Saint Sergius and their friends on Saturday, 17 February 1968. It was taken down in shorthand, transcribed, corrected by Metropolitan Anthony and published at the time in booklet form by the Fellowship, More…


1:50, Friday, 28 February, 2014 | Continuarea


Message of His Eminence Metropolitan Vladimir at the beginning of the Great Lent

Beloved in Christ brothers and sisters, With the Lord’s help we have approached the Great Lent, preparing for the bright Feast of the Resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Now that there are only several days left before the beginning of this important period of ascetic labour, let us prepare morally and spiritually More…


11:29, Thursday, 27 February, 2014 | Continuarea


The Monastery of Holy Ascension of the Lord in New Neamt, near Bendery, Moldova

The monastery of the Holy Ascension in New-Neamts is situated in Bessarabia, on the right shore of Dniester, at a distance of 14 km from the town of Tighina (Bender) and 6 km from the town of Tiraspol. The monastic complex rises grandly to the sky, being seen from the distance by the people coming More…


4:09, Monday, 24 February, 2014 | Continuarea


The Third Sunday of the Triodion Period: Sunday of The Last Judgement (Meatfare Sunday)

Introduction The Sunday of the Last Judgment is the third Sunday of a three-week period prior to the commencement of Great Lent. During this time, the services of the Church have begun to include hymns from the Triodion, a liturgical book that contains the services from the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee, the More…


3:34, Friday, 21 February, 2014 | Continuarea


Saturday of Souls – the Saturday before the Last Judgement Sunday

Through the Apostolic Constitutions (Book VIII, ch. 42), the Church of Christ has received the custom to make commemorations for the departed on the third, ninth, and fortieth days after their repose. Since many throughout the ages, because of an untimely death in a faraway place, or other adverse circumstances, have died without being deemed More…


3:28, Friday, 21 February, 2014 | Continuarea


12 Reasons Why I Became and/or Remain an Orthodox Christian

by Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick Lists like this are usually so much clickbait, I know, but I thought it was nevertheless worthwhile to compile a list of most of the reasons why I became and/or remain an Orthodox Christian. Some of these things were not really on my radar when I became Orthodox in 1998, but More…


1:10, Friday, 21 February, 2014 | Continuarea


Strange Yet Familiar: My Journey to the Orthodox Church-Bishop Kallistos (Ware)

Heaven and earth are united today. — Hymn from the Vigil on Christmas Eve O strange Orthodox Church! — Father Lev Gillet An absence and a presence I can remember exactly when my personal journey to Orthodoxy began. It happened quite unexpectedly one Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1952, when I was seventeen. I More…


11:23, Friday, 21 February, 2014 | Continuarea


Prayer dissolves anger

A woman who worked as schoolteacher came home full of anger. She has had a quarrel with the headmistress. When she came home, she started to pour her fury on her husband. He kept calm and didn’t contradict her. At a given moment the woman started scolding him for not having bought fruits for the More…


10:58, Friday, 21 February, 2014 | Continuarea


What is happiness?

Human infantile dream hangs by a blind delusion and self-deception that will find somewhere, sometime happiness .When in fact , this dream involves a long journey full of ( re) births, falls, lifting , as many meetings, on so many breakups sometimes even more.To be happy you must take a risk, the risk of losing More…


5:18, Monday, 17 February, 2014 | Continuarea


St. Nicholas, Enlightener of Japan

Saint Nicholas, Enlightener of Japan, (Ivan Dimitrievich Kasatkin) was born on August 1, 1836 in the village of Berezovsk, Belsk district, Smolensk diocese, where his father served as deacon. At the age of five he lost his mother. He completed the Belsk religious school, and afterwards the Smolensk Theological Seminary. In 1857 Ivan Kasatkin entered More…


2:53, Monday, 17 February, 2014 | Continuarea


The Sunday Of The Prodigal Son He came to himself – what does this mean?

The two things we must know to be saved. In the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen. [1] The Church gives us another example today, about repentance. It tells us another part of the story. This is the Sunday of the Prodigal Son, and is yet another Sunday that prepares More…


2:46, Monday, 17 February, 2014 | Continuarea


Sermon on the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple

Archbishop Dmitri of Blessed Memory On February 2nd (15th in the civil calendar) the Church celebrates the great feast of The Meeting of our Lord in the Temple. The Gospel lesson for that day relates how the mother of Jesus brought Him to the temple, as was the custom and requirement under the God-given Law More…


2:58, Friday, 14 February, 2014 | Continuarea


Meeting of the Lord

Forty days after Christ was born he was presented to God in the Jerusalem Temple according to the Mosaic Law. At this time as well his mother Mary underwent the ritual purification and offered the sacrifices as prescribed in the Law. Thus, forty days after Christmas, on the second of February, the Church celebrates the More…


2:53, Friday, 14 February, 2014 | Continuarea


St. Valentine’s Day: Legend and Reality

By Tatiana Fedorova Human perception is an extraordinary thing. We are very often inclined to accept a given piece of information as true simply on the grounds that, in modern terms, it has a high citation index. In other words, one and the same text, with slight variations, wanders from publication to publication and from More…


12:36, Friday, 14 February, 2014 | Continuarea


Martyr Tryphon of Campsada Near Apamea in Syria

The Martyr Tryphon was born in Phrygia, one of the districts of Asia Minor, in the village of Lampsacus. From his early years the Lord granted him the power to cast out demons and to heal various maladies. He once saved the inhabitants of his native city from starvation. St Tryphon, by the power of More…


12:20, Friday, 14 February, 2014 | Continuarea


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