Save as PDFThe 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.
Sermons & Epistles
The Sunday after Epiphany.
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.
The Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee
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 […]
The Meeting of the Lord
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.
The Sunday before Epiphany
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit! We’ve heard the some words in today’s Gospel about repentance. Usually we think of repentance as of some mournful state, when we recall the evil we made, the sin with which we lived and with contrition of heart and pain […]
The Circumcision of the Lord.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit! On January 14, the Orthodox Church solemnly observes the Circumcision of the Lord in memory that the infant Christ on the eight day of His Nativity according to the Old Testament tradition was circumcised and named Jesus. Many ancient people […]
The Sunday after Christmas.
In the name of the Father and the Son and Holy Spirit! This Sunday is devoted to Saints Joseph, husband of Mary, the Apostle James “the Lord’s brother” and king and the prophet David. Of course, the Apostle James as all other brothers and sisters of Christ wasn’t a child of the Virgin Mary. There […]
The Christmas Epistle in 2010
Христос раждается! Cлавим Его! CHRIST IS BORN! – LET US GLORIFY HIM! Beloved in the Lord Reverend Fathers, brothers and sisters!
The Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Wives
Christ is risen! “Christ is risen indeed!” – this joyful answer to the exclamation “Christ is risen” characterizes the Easter days no less than all singing. Sorrow and grief accompany all our life but they are always followed by joy. So on these days joy bursts into our soul after sorrowful tears and great grief […]
The Great Saturday
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. In ancient times the Liturgy of the Great Saturday as other Lenten Liturgies took place at sunset and so it begins with Vespers. As Vespers is always the beginning of the service of the next day, and the next day is Easter, […]