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Elder Symeon Kragiopoulos on Cheesefare Sunday
Icon depicting the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise (source) Great Lent is a forty-day period for us to return to God. Due to our sins, we find ourselves outside of paradise. Realizing this...
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Elder Sophrony of Essex on the Love and Pain of the Theotokos
Christ crucified, in extreme humility, beside His Most-holy Mother, the Theotokos (source) Our Panagia was pained much more than all other women, much more than all other mothers in the world,...
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Elder Ephraim of Arizona on Great Lent
Jesus Christ, "Extreme Humility" (source) At this time we’re entering the great spiritual arena of the blessed Great Lent. Holy and Great Lent is a time of compunction, for repentance, for tears, for...
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Elder Ephraim of Katounakia (+1998)
Elder Ephraim of Katounakia (+1998) (source)Note: This year marks 20 years from the repose of blessed Elder Ephraim of Katounakia, a great figure of Orthodox Athonite Monasticism of the 20th century...
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Elder Nikon of New Skete: "If Christ benefited from fasting, then I will fast...
Christ being tempted and overcoming the devil in the desert (source) “When man practices asceticism, the devil often gets in over his head. Because he knows what a weapon the fasting is! What power...
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Elder Symeon Kragiopoulos: "The Cross is glory for Christ."
Jesus Christ crucified (source) Only God knows what every one of us should go through. And not only should we get prepared for it but also look forward to it with joy. Because this is our glory....
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Elder Ephraim of Arizona: "Carry your cross with patience and joy"
Jesus Christ taken from the Cross, mourned by the Theotokos, His Mother (source) About the grief that torments you, I have told you many times that it is your cross which our Jesus has given to you so...
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"The door of the Kingdom is already open..."
Jesus Christ the Son of God the Savior (source) Christ became man and called to repentance robbers and harlots. Repent, my soul! The door of the Kingdom is already open, and the transformed pharisees,...
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"I see you now as a greatly-bright lamp..."
The Annunciation of the Theotokos (source) I see you now as a greatly-bright lamp founded by God, as a golden Ark of the Law that is passing. Receive, O All Spotless One, Him Who was well pleased to...
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"O woe, truly I am being destroyed!", cries out Hades..."
Christ raising Lazarus from the dead (source) "O woe, truly I am being destroyed!", cries out Hades, which speaks to Death saying: "Behold, the Nazarene makes the things below tremble, and rents...
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"The Son and Word of the Father..."
Jesus Christ entering Jerusalem triumphantly on Palm Sunday (source) The Son and Word of the Father, Who is beginningless and eternal together with Him, comes today seated on the foal of an ass to the...
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"Being moved by compassion, O Christ..."
The Crucifixion of Christ (source) Being moved by compassion, O Christ, You willingly come to suffer, O Benefactor, wishing to redeem us from the passions, and from the condemnation of Hades....
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The Vision of the Prophet Ezekiel of the Resurrection
The Vision of the Prophet Ezekiel of the Resurrection (read during the Matins service for Great and Holy Saturday) (source) 1And the hand of the Lord came upon me, and the Lord brought me forth by...
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St. Porphyrios reading the Paschal Homily of St. John Chrysostom
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!The Resurrection of Christ (source) Recording of St. Porphyrios reading the Paschal Homily of St. John Chrysostom, with subtitles of the English translation...
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A Paschal Epistle of St. John Maximovitch
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!The Resurrection of Christ (source) PASCHAL EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN MAXIMOVITCH, 1940St. John MaximovitchPascha, 1940, Shanghai. A large Russian diaspora, forced to...
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"As imitators of the Passion of the Savior, and of the radiance of His...
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!Sts. Raphael, Nicholas and Irene the Newly-revealed Martyrs and Wonderworkers of Lesvos (source) As imitators of the Passion of the Savior, and of the radiance of...
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"This light-bearing day has become the first and lady of days..."
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!The Sunday of St. Thomas, when Christ again appeared to His Disciples after His Resurrection (source) This light-bearing day [Sunday] has become the first and lady...
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Elder Ephraim of Arizona on Pascha, Paradise and Springtime
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!The Resurrection of Christ (source) "Now in the springtime, when nature is wearing its most beautiful apparel, one feels inexpressible joy when this natural beauty...
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"O women, hearken to the voice of rejoicing..."
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!The Holy Myrrhbearers greeted by the Angel at the Tomb of Christ (source) O women, hearken to the voice of rejoicing, for the tyrant Hades has been trampled upon,...
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O true friend of Christ, first leader among His Champions..."
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!St. George the Great Martyr and Trophy-bearer (source) O true friend of Christ, first leader among His Champions, all-radiant lamp of the world, brightest star,...
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