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Our Venerable Father Paisius Velichkovsky…
November 15 Beginning of the Nativity Fast Our Venerable Father Paisius Velichkovsky (1794) He was born in Ukraine in 1722, one of the many children of a priest. He attended the Ecclesiastical Academy...
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Who is my neighbor?…
Vasily Perov’s Wanderer (no date) Now it is not the lawyer who is questioning Christ and is being unmasked by the Lord. Rather it is we, my dear ones, who have become the disputers of this world, but...
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The Church is a hospital…
A fundamental teaching of the Holy Fathers is that the Church is a “Hospital” which cures the wounded man. In many passages of Holy Scripture such language is used. One such passage is that of the...
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love and my refusal to listen…
photo: Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images XCIX Few have listened, O Lord, and yet there are those who believe. Few are those, who fix their eyes on their Lord and follow His gaze. I am searching for those...
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Forefeast of the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple
Troparion Tone 4 Today is the prelude of the good will of God, of the preaching of the salvation of mankind. The Virgin appears in the Temple of God, in anticipation proclaiming Christ to all. Let...
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Thou art a vineyard –შენ ხარ ვენახი
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3SPx7ZvM7k Georgian Orthodox hymn to the Theotokos English translation: “Thou art a vineyard, newly blossomed out. Tender, beautiful, planted in Eden, Aloe-scented from...
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the Maiden entered the house of the Lord…
Saint Germanus…writes that when Zacharias took the Maiden by the hand and joyfully led her into the Holy Place, he said to her, ‘Come, O performance of my prophecy; come, fulfillment of the Lord’s...
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tested…
Filed under: asceticism, Christian, Cross, Eastern Orthodox, faith, passions, repentance, saints, spiritual life
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Thanksgiving Vespers…
Everyone capable of thanksgiving is capable of salvation and eternal joy. Wherefore we Thine unworthy servants offer praise to Thee our Savior, For Thou hast given all things to us, even our very...
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Greatmartyr Mercurius of Caesarea, in Cappadocia…
The Holy Great Martyr Mercurius, a Scythian by descent, served as a soldier in the Roman army. The impious emperors Decius (249-251) and Valerian (253-259) issued a decree ordering all Roman citizens...
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