Church Feasts
Sunday After the Elevation of the Holy Cross – The Form of Redemption
Fr. Patrick H. Reardon
17 September 2023
Over the centuries preachers and hymnographers have declared that the she...
The Beheading of Saint John, the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord – 2
Saint Justin Popovich
30 August 2023
Saint Justin Popovich
Today (29th of August), we also specifically glor...
The Beheading of Saint John, the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord – 1
Saint Justin Popovich
29 August 2023
Saint Justin Popovich
Today is a little Great Friday, a second Great Frid...
Transfiguration
Metropolitan Anthony Bloom †
6 August 2023
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.
There are blessed o...
The Transfiguration of the Saviour
George Mantzaridis, Professor Emeritus, Theological School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
6 August 2023
The Transfiguration of the Lord occupies a central place in the Orthodox Ch...
The Death of God and the Transfiguration of Man
Fr. Stephen Freeman
6 August 2023
The Transfiguration, byzantine icon, 12th Century
The story of our creati...
Discourse on the Holy Spirit, that is, on Pentecost
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
5 June 2023
David always gives the most joyful meaning to feasts, tuning his dulcet h...
Pentecost
Fr. Lev Gillet
4 June 2023
“We celebrate the feast of Pentecost and the coming of the Spirit, the appo...
Pentecost: a distinctive feast
Archimandrite Eleftherios Balakos
4 June 2023
‘I shall be with you always, to the end of the world’ (Matth. 28, 20).
Wit...
The Fear of Pentecost
Archimandrite Eleftherios Balakos
4 June 2023
‘…each one heard their own language being spoken’ (Acts 2, 6). As a result ...