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all that is good is in Him…
icon of the Theotokos in St Tikhon’s Chapel- Calhan CO excerpt from The Prologue of Ohrid “Christ is not light and darkness but only light. Christ is not truth and falsehood, but only truth. Neither is...
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remembrance of God…
‘The remembrance of God is suffering of heart endured in a spirit of devotion. But he who forgets God becomes self-indulgent and insensitive.’ St. Mark the Ascetic Filed under: Eastern Orthodox...
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Wisdom from Abba Dorotheos…
Instructions to a brother who has asked him about insensitivity and the growing cold of love. When your soul becomes insensitive, brother, it is useful to read the Holy Scriptures and the...
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I wish to go and awaken him…
Again the Lord spoke to the disciples “See now, Lazarus, our friend has fallen asleep, And I wish to go and awaken him.” But they did not understand that the Redeemer referred to death as...
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The Bridegroom…
Let us admire and love the Bridegroom, O brethren, making ready our lamps that they may shine forth with virtues and the Orthodox Faith; that, like the wise virgins of the Lord, we may be prepared to...
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Great and Holy Wednesday…
On Great and Holy Wednesday, the hymns of the Bridegroom Service remind us of the sinful woman who poured precious ointment on Christ’s head at Simon the leper’s house (Mt. 26:7). The disciples...
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Stop that kind of love…
Albert Edelfelt’s The Gossip – 1887 I have heard people slandering, and I have rebuked them. And these doers of evil replied in self-defense that they were doing so out of love and care for the person...
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Great and Holy Thursday…
The following hymn from Holy Thursday evening has Jesus speaking to the people of Israel about their two evil deeds: Israel, My first-born son, committed two evil deeds: He forsook Me, the source of...
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Εγκώμια – The Lamentations…
Εγκώμια – The Lamentations – 1st, 2nd & 3rd Stasis – Holy Friday youtube.com Filed under: Christian, Eastern Orthodox, Jesus Christ, love, video
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In a tomb they laid Thee…
Jean Georges Beraud- Deposition-du-Christ 1892 Filed under: Christian, Eastern Orthodox, Jesus Christ, Pascha
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Lamentation of the Virgin…
by Nektaria Karantzi Filed under: Christian, Eastern Orthodox, Jesus Christ, love, prayer, Theotokos, video
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The Holy Fire has descended in the Lord’s Sepulcher!
Jerusalem, May 4, 2013 Thousands of people witnessed the great miracle in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, as the Holy Fire descended and lit the candles of the faithful, Interfax...
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All creation grieved…
Ilya Repin’s- Golgotha (1869) “The earth quaked, rocks were split” (St. Matthew 27:51). O, what a terrible reproach against mankind! Even dead nature recognized Him Whom men were unable to recognize....
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Sprasnikom! Christ is Risen!
Christ is risen from the dead trampling down death by death and upon those in the tombs bestowing life! Christ is risen! Indeed He is Risen! Filed under: Christian, Eastern Orthodox, Jesus Christ, Pascha
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Having beheld the Resurrection of Christ!
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He arose from the dead…
He [Christ] arose from the dead and mounted up to the heights of heaven. When the Lord had clothed himself with humanity, and had suffered for the sake of the sufferer, and had been bound for the sake...
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Why seek ye the living among the dead?
Mikhail Nesterov The Empty Tomb (1889) St Luke 24:1-12 Verily, the Women came at early dawn to Thy tomb, O Christ, but they found not Thy body, precious to them. And as they were perplexed, behold...
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let us offer ourselves!
Anastasis icon: Holy Theophany Orthodox Church Yesterday I was crucified with Him; today I am glorified with Him. Yesterday I died with Him; today I am made alive with Him. Yesterday I was buried with...
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out of town…
Dear readers, I am out of town for the next 10 days so there will be a brief hiatus on the blog. Christ is risen! Leah Filed under: Eastern Orthodox
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