Save as PDFThe troparion of the feast sings, «Thou didst raise Lazarus from the dead, O Christ-God, making certain the universal resurrection, before Thy Passion».
Sermons & Epistles
The third week of Great Lent. Veneration of the Life-giving Cross.
With what feeling do we present our-selves before the Lord’s Cross today? This veneration takes place half-way between the beginning of great Lent and the Passion Week. What does this Cross tell us about?
The second Sunday of Great Lent
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit! Today on the second Sunday of Great Lent, the Church opens before us the well-known page of the Evangel about the cure of a paralytic man. Four men were carrying a stretcher with this sick man but when they came […]
The Sunday of Orthodoxy.
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.
The Christmas Epistle in 2009
This is of course only poetic imagery but may it help us, in some small way, to understand that the Eternal Wisedom, born from Eternal Love, was incarnated and became Man among people so that man, shivering from earthly bitterness, could take the new path to a warmer place, to the Kingdom of God, where there is «neither sickness, nor sorrow, nor sighing!».