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Only God and the soul are of value Saint Nicholas Velimirovich 10 April 2023 The spiritual life is the only real life; everything else is material. Our body’s material, dust borrowed from the earth. The spiritual life is our unceasing effort to become worthy of the divine brea...
It’s the raiment Saint Isaac the Syrian 10 April 2023 Humility is the attire of the Divinity. God clothes himself in these garments and, in the humble elements of bread and wine, he comes down, comes into us and sanctifies us. Saint Isaac the Syri...
Our responsibilities in Holy Week Metropolitan Avgoustinos (Kantiotis) of Florina († 2010) 10 April 2023 ‘The present day shines brightly on the beginning of the Lord’s Passion. Come then, lovers of feasts, and let us welcome it with songs…’ (sessional hymn, Mattins, Great Monday). We have arrived, my b...
Palm Sunday Metropolitan Anthony Bloom † 9 April 2023 4 April 1993 In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Today, in the day of Palms we stand in awe and amazement before what is happening in a way in which the Jews of Jerusalem could no...
The culture of the fall Saint Sophrony of Essex 9 April 2023 Don’t place too much confidence in the higher education you’ve acquired in the world. The culture we live in is that of the fall. Knowledge without love can’t save people. Saint Sophrony in Ess...
Palm Sunday Metropolitan Panteleimon of Antinoes 9 April 2023 Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in all four canonical Gospels. (Mark ...
Lazarus Saturday Fr. Alexander Schmemann 8 April 2023 The Beginning of the Cross: Saturday of Lazarus "Having fulfilled Forty Days... we ask to see the Holy Week of Thy Passion." With these words sung at Vespers of Friday, Lent comes to its end and we e...
Lazarus Saturday Fr. Lev Gillet 8 April 2023 Lazarus Saturday has a very special place in the liturgical calendar. It is not included in the forty days of Lenten repentance; it is not included in the harrowing days of Holy Week – which are count...
Don’t leave 8 April 2023 You’ve come to church and been permitted to encounter Christ? Don’t leave before the end of the service. If you leave before the dismissal, you’re as guilty as an escapee. You go to a theatre and ...
On the End of Great Lent Abba Dorotheos 7 April 2023 So, all those who wish to cleanse themselves of the sins of the whole year should first guard against treating food lightly. Because the fathers say that inattention to food begets all kinds of evil ...
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