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The souls bound in the chains of hades, O Christ, seeing Thy compassion without measure, pressed onward to the light with joyful steps, praising the eternal Pascha.
(Matins, Paschal Canon of Saint John of Damascus)
The...
The Vespers on the Sunday evenings of Great Lent provide our attentive ears with something like a running commentary on the course of the Fast that is both encouraging and challenging. Yesterday evening, the following hymn...
“Before Thy Cross, we bow down in worship, O Master, and Thy Holy Resurrection, we glorify.”
This hymn – together with the accompanying rite of venerating the Cross – replaces the usual Trisagion hymn during the...
Having come to the middle point of the path of the Fast that leads to Thy precious Cross, grant that we may see Thy day that Abraham saw and rejoiced, when on the mountain he received Isaac back alive as from the tomb....
On March 25, we celebrate the Great Feast of the Annunciation to the Most Holy Theotokos. This great feast always falls during Great Lent, and when it falls on a weekday, it is the only instance during that season for which...
As we draw closer to the beginning of Great Lent on Monday, March 18, we are able to set our lenten efforts against the background of the Last Judgment, thus giving us the “big picture” within which we live our lives and...
“Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took his journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in loose living” [Luke 15:13].
In the Parable of the Prodigal Son—alternative titles...
The reading from The Epistle to the Colossians that read on February 3 of this year—the 35th Sunday After Pentecost—is quite remarkable for what it reveals about our Christian Faith. In the unique light of his...
On January 6, we celebrated the Great Feast of Theophany, on which we commemorated the Baptism of the Lord and the revelation of the Holy Trinity at the Jordan River. It is this open manifestation of God that accords this...
I would like to begin by wishing everyone a blessed New Year. While I am a few days late, the new year 2013 is just beginning, and we still have a long way to go. So a greeting at this point is not altogether untimely. I...