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"O all-praised John, and universal Apostle..."
St. John the Forerunner (source) O all-praised John, and universal Apostle, the good news of Gabriel, and the root from the barren womb, and the most-beautiful adornment of the desert, and true...
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Metropolitan Kallinikos of Edessa (+ August 7th, 1984) Canonized by the...
Saint Kallinikos Metropolitan of Edessa (+August 7th, 1984) - To be commemorated on August 8thMetropolitan Kallinikos of Edessa (+August 7th, 1984) was canonized today by the Holy and Sacred Synod of...
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"As beholders and martyrs of the incarnation of the Logos..."
The Synaxis of the Holy Twelve Apostles of Christ (source) As beholders and martyrs of the incarnation of the Logos, O all-joyous and blessed Disciples, you shine throughout the world like lightning,...
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"Let us hasten to the memory of the Unmercenaries..."
Sts. Kosmas and Damian the Holy Unmercenaries (source) Let us hasten to the memory of the Unmercenaries with a clean heart and a pure conscience, and let us cry out to them: Rejoice, O dyad, the...
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"Join chorus, ye East and West, ye North and South..."
St. John Maximovitch the Wonderworker of Shanghai and San Francisco (source) O blessed John, thou wast truly shown to be a universal instructor, a teacher of piety and the chosen vessel of the Holy...
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"You have given us Your Mother, O Lover of mankind, as a help to Your...
The Mosaic of the Theotokos and Christ from the Apse of the Great Church of Christ: Hagia Sophia, in Constantinople (source) You have given us Your Mother, O Lover of mankind, as a help to Your...
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Selected hymns from the Service to St. Sophrony of Essex
Sts. Silouan the Athonite and Sophrony of Essex (source) Selected hymns from the Service to St. Sophrony of Essex,Written by Fr. Athanasios of Simonopetra, the Hymnographer of the Ecumenical...
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"Comfort, comfort my people, said the Prophet, for our God is a God of...
St. Paisios the Athonite (source) Comfort, comfort my people, said the Prophet, for our God is a God of consolation. Therefore, you became like God, O God-bearer Paisios, becoming a spring of...
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"In Thy great mercy, keep Orthodox Christians and their pastors and all Thy...
Mosaic of Christ from Hagia Sophia, Constantinople (source) Apolytikion of Robe of Christ in Moscow in the Fourth ToneOn this day let us the faithful run to the divine and healing robe of our Saviour...
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"With a voice of rejoicing, and crying out with psalms..."
St. Marina the Great Martyr (source) With a voice of rejoicing, and crying out with psalms, let us hymn the Martyr Marina, for she cast down the delusion of the idols, and manfully trampled the enemy...
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Elder Ephraim of St. Andrew's Skete on the Repose of St. Paisios
The wondrous body of St. Paisios the Athonite during his funeral (source) "Gerontissa (Eldress) Philothei, from the Monastery of Souroti, told me that, as soon as St. Paisios reposed, his face shown,...
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"Rejoice, O noetic swallow, that heralds the springtime of grace for us..."
Sts. Joachim and Anna, together with their daughter, the Most-Holy Theotokos (source) Rejoice, O noetic swallow, that heralds the springtime of grace for us, she who lived her life well blamelessly...
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"Today, the Church of Christ is shining with the dual lights..."
Sts. Mary Magdalene the Equal-to-the-Apostles and Markella of Chios the Virgin Martyr (source) Today, the Church of Christ is shining with the dual lights of Mary Magdalene, and His spotless bride...
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Homily II on St. Paraskevi by Metropolitan Avgoustinos Kantiotes
St. Paraskevi the Great Martyr (source) Homily II on St. Paraskevi by Metropolitan Avgoustinos Kantiotes: "A Sacrifice out of Love"Who, my beloved, was St. Paraskevi whom we are celebrating? What...
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Homily II on St. Panteleimon by Metropolitan Avgoustinos Kantiotes
St. Panteleimon the Great Martyr and Unmercenary (source) Homily II on St. Panteleimon by Metropolitan Avgoustinos Kantiotes: "A Lesson of Love""This I command you, to love one another." (John...
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A Study on the Apolytikion of St. Paraskevi
St. Paraskevi the Great Martyr (source) Note: The short but powerful Apolytikion (troparion) of St. Paraskevi, is often times not fully or clearly translated from the original Greek, and is even less...
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" for behold, she stands among us at the annual feast of her memory, granting...
St. Irene Chrysovalantou (source)Come, all the faithful, let us hasten with diligence to Irene the God-bearer, for behold, she stands among us at the annual feast of her memory, granting the gifts of...
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Homily on the Holy Maccabees by Metropolitan Avgoustinos Kantiotes
Icon of the Holy Maccabees with their Mother St. Solomone, and their teacher Eleazar (source) Homily on the Holy Maccabees by Metropolitan Avgoustinos Kantiotes: "Our Faith is True"We will speak, my...
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"Trinities of Saints", by Monk Arsenios
Famous depiction of the prefiguration of the Holy Trinity by Rublev (source) "According to the grace-filled expression of our Saints: “The Holy Spirit is the head of the household of the Orthodox...
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"Your Disciples, O Logos, cast themselves down to the ground..."
The Holy Transfiguration of Christ (source) Foreshadowing Your Resurrection, O Christ God, You took Your three Disciples Peter and James and John and ascended Tabor. And You, O Savior, were...
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