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Patriarch Kirill wishes Russian Paralympians spiritual strength in Vancouver Games
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 Sunday of forgiveness before the Great Lent.
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”
The annual meeting of “Orthodox V” was held on Sunday February 07/10 in Chipman church after the Divine Liturgy and lunch.
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 […]