Orthodox Christian Prayers
The Feast of Pentecost (also called the Descent of the Holy Spirit or Trinity Sunday) ~ explanation and practice
The Feast of Pentecost (also called the Descent of the Holy Spirit or Trinity Sunday)… is one of the Great Feasts of the Lord in the Orthodox Church, second in importance only to Pascha (Easter). It is celebrated 50 days after Pascha, hence its name (from the Greek Pentekostē, meaning […]
Sunday before Nativity
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Today, on this Sunday before the great and joyous Feast of the Nativity of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, the Holy Church places before us the Gospel reading from the Holy […]
The Sunday of the Holy Forefathers
“In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Today, on this Sunday of the Holy Forefathers—the second Sunday before the Nativity of our Lord—we gather to remember the righteous ancestors of Christ according to the flesh. From Adam and Eve, through Noah, […]
Brief life of Archbishop Ioasaph, founder of St. Vladimirs church, Edmonton / Liturgical Services to St. Ioasaph of Edmonton and Buenos Aries
Brief life of St. Archbishop Ioasaph, founder of St. Vladimirs church, Edmonton (Date of commemoration is Nov. 12 old style / Nov. 25 new style.) From the talk delivered at the glorification of Saint Ioasaph of Edmonton and Buenos Aries. Introduction from the original compilation of the life of […]
A Concerned Voice from the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad Under the Moscow Patriarchate (ROCOR/MP)
As an update to the article “A Concerned Voice from the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad Under the Moscow Patriarchate (ROCOR/MP)” we originally published in 2011 (see below the video) we recently became aware of this video deposition of Metropolitan Laurus and Bishop Gabriel from 2007 just before the false union […]
The Three Visits of Mary Magdalene to the Tomb of Christ ~ Blessed Metropolitan Antony Khrapovitsky
The Three Visits of Mary Magdalene to the Tomb of Christ ~ Blessed Metropolitan Antony Khrapovitsky We have read various discussions about the apparent lack of accord among the Gospel narrations of Christ’s Resurrection. There have been a number of attempts at demonstrating a concordance among the […]
The Calendar Question
The Calendar Question by Andrew Bond Surely, more nonsense has been written about this subject in Orthodox journals than about almost any other ecclesiastical controversy. This year, another jurisdiction, the “Orthodox Church in America,” has introduced a change of calendar, so perhaps this is a convenient moment to re-examine the arguments […]
Video: the Protection of the Holy Virgin Mary Convent in Bluffton, Alberta
Last December, a film crew from Saint Photios Orthodox Theological Seminary was sent to the cold and snowy land of Western Canada to film a documentary about the Protection of the Holy Virgin Mary Convent. This documentary follows the everyday life of the nuns living at the Protection of the […]
“On the Inevitability of Suffering” ~ By New Hieromartyr John, Archbishop of Riga and Latvia,
On the Inevitability of Suffering By New Hieromartyr John, Archbishop of Riga and Latvia, Who, For His Unyielding Witness to the Truth Suffered Many Persecutions And Was Burned Alive By Communist Assassins In the Night of October 12, 1934. “From that time, Jesus began to show to His disciples […]
Paschal (Resurrectional) Epistle 2023 from our Bishops
(The Resurrection of Christ and the raising of Adam and Eve from Hades) Paschal Resurrectional) Epistle 2023 from our Bishops “O Thou Who art risen from the dead, raise us up who have fallen into sin” (Resurrectional Sticheron in the Fourth Tone) Beloved Fathers and Brethren in the [Risen] Lord: […]
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