Reflections in Christ

Time and again, the hymns of this joyous season point out that the myrrh-bearers were a little confused: Nicodemus had already buried the Body of the Lord with about a hundred pounds of myrrh…

According to Saint Gregory the Theologian, Thomas Sunday—which he called New Sunday—is an even greater feast than Pascha. On Easter, we celebrated the rising of Christ…

Christ is risen! Indeed he is risen! In the darkness of earliest morning, our churches shining with festal light, we heard at Matins the wonderful Paschal,,,

“Moses the great mystically prefigured this present day, saying: ‘And God blessed the seventh day.’” In ancient times, catechumens were not permitted to read the…

On Christmas Day, the feast of the Nativity, we saw him born in a cave, in the silence of the night, when the whole world became still at his presence. We saw…

“Today Judas watches how he may deliver up the Lord” (Matins, Antiphon Six). These are frightening words, and yet, if we think that we are so different than Judas, we have missed the point…

Throughout the Lenten season, we have witnessed, at the Liturgy of the Pre-sanctified, the reverent and divine adoration that the priest offers to Christ in the Eucharist: with…

“Today the grace of the Holy Spirit has gathered us together, and we all take up thy Cross and say: Blessed is he that comes in the Name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest. ...”

There are times during Christ’s ministry when, seeing that the people wished to seize Him and make Him their king, He fled. But today, He accepts their acclamations and allows…

“O Lord, wishing to see the tomb of Lazarus—for thou wast soon to dwell by thine own choice within a tomb—thou hast asked: ‘Where have ye laid him?’ And, learning that which was already…”