Archpastoral Message from His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon on the Beginning of the Ecclesiastical New Year
To the Clergy, Monastics, and Faithful of the Orthodox Church in America,
My Beloved Children in the Lord,
Joyous feast!
The Gospel appointed for this day, the beginning of the ecclesiastical new year, sets before us a scene of remarkable simplicity. Our Lord returns to Nazareth, where He had been brought up, enters the synagogue on the Sabbath day “as His custom was” (Lk. 4:16), and stands up to read. He is handed the scroll of the prophet Isaiah, and He finds the place where…
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