On February 21, on the week of the Triumph of Orthodoxy All Orthodox Vespers was conducted in the Cathedral Church of St. Barbara in Edmonton (Canada) with the participation of clerics and laymen of this city. According to the tradition such service is annually conducted in one of the Orthodox churches of the capital of Alberta province.
Today is the Sunday of Orthodoxy, but we should remember that it isn’t the triumph of the Orthodox over other confessions and other people, but the feast of God’s victory, the victory of truth, the victory of Christ over all weakness of human mind. Because which of us can say that he believes in God […]
February 2010/ Monthly Bulletin of the Orthodox V Charitable Association
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Moscow, February 18, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia conducted a prayer service in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior for Russian Paralympic team on the eve of their departure to Vancouver. “I wish you spiritual strength, it can compensate physical disability. All victories are based on it, the strongest in spirit […]
The Lord says “If you don’t forgive others their failings, your heavenly Father won’t forgive your failings either”. Our Holy Church meets us with this news; such condition is offered to us on the threshold of the Great Lent. Let’s hear the word of God, hear his commandment and sincerely forgive today all who offended us some day.
The annual meeting of “Orthodox V” was held on Sunday February 07/10 in Chipman church after the Divine Liturgy and lunch.
Having been healed by God’s Son, the people behaved differently. Somebody even forgot to thank, some people under the attack of envious Pharisees denied their Saviour cowardly, still others having become the center of overall attention began to show their vanity over the miracle revealed on them. However, it was Jericho’s beggar who perceived the Christian message and chose really straight way for himself.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit! Today the Holy Church begins to prepare us bodily and spiritually for the Great Lent. This Sunday is called the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee because the parable of the Publican and Pharisee is read during the Liturgy. And […]
Today is the feast of the Meeting of the Lord. This feast doesn’t only complete the history of the Old Testament and begins the New Testament, but it has also one deeper sense because it teaches us obedience.
“When the day came for them to be purified in keeping with the Law of Moses, they took Him up to the Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord”. The Mother of God didn’t need the days of purification when a woman couldn’t enter the temple, because Her Son was miraculously born, but despite this fact, she for the obedience to God, fulfilled the law of her people of that time.
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