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On the services of the holy week of the Passion

15 April 2008

As we approach the great solemn days of Holy Week, we bring to mind how our Lord Jesus Christ was betrayed and seized, tortured and crucified, died and was buried, and arose from the dead. The ...

Passion Week: An Explanation

15 April 2008

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Great Lent and Holy Week are two separate fasts, and two separate celebrations. Great Lent ends on Friday of the fifth week (the day before Lazarus Saturday). Holy Week begins immediately ...

In Passion Week

15 April 2008

Anton Chekhov

A cab drove by. The cabman was clucking to his horse and slapping the reins, unaware of two street-urchins hanging from the springs of his little carriage. I wanted to join these boys, but ...

The Triumph of the Icons: History, Theology, and Implications for Orthodox Worship Today

19 March 2008

The only way for Christ to save the world and restore it was to be born in it and to sanctify matter, by becoming matter Himself. Indeed, the Incarnation of the Son of God then not only made the ...

What is Orthodoxy?

19 March 2008

Orthodoxy is not only the sum total of dogmas accepted as true in a purely formal manner. It is not only theory, but practice; it is not only right Faith, but a life which agrees in everything with ...

At the Threshold of the Fast. Reflections on the Sunday of Forgiveness

10 March 2008

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The Sunday of Forgiveness stands, as others have written, at the 'threshold of Great Lent'. The Vespers of this evening is a cardinal moment for many: a service in darkness by which their ...

Take Time to Find God

06 March 2008

God had allowed someone to leave a special, little flower on that table so that as she entered the building she would discover it and feel His great love for her. Her heart was greatly touched by ...

The sacrament of Penance and the Eucharist

22 November 2007

Rev. Prof. Nicolas Lossky INSTITUTE SAINT-SERGE

I remember how I — at that time a subdeacon — once went to common Confession in the lower church of St Daniel ’s monastery. When, after all the canons and prayers, I approached the priest, he — a ...

Biblical Theology and the Sacrament of Penance

16 November 2007

The doctrine of Repentance is represented in different books of the Old and New Testament. There it is set out with different degrees of fullness depending on historical conditions as well as on the ...

ORTHODOX TEACHING ON THE SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH

14 November 2007

Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware)

The Greek term mysterion, on the other hand, has a meaning that is richer and more profound. The word occurs about thirty times in the New Testament, and nowhere there does it signify a liturgical ...

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