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...
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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...
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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...
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Transfiguration
Metropolitan Anthony Bloom †
6 August 2023
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.
There are blessed o...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Pentecost
Fr. Lev Gillet
4 June 2023
“We celebrate the feast of Pentecost and the coming of the Spirit, the appo...
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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...
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The Fear of Pentecost
Archimandrite Eleftherios Balakos
4 June 2023
‘…each one heard their own language being spoken’ (Acts 2, 6). As a result ...
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