Divine Liturgy – Sunday of the Paralytic
On this day the Church remembers the man who lay by the Sheep’s Pool, in Jerusalem, for thirty-eight years. He was waiting for someone to put him into the pool. Read more…
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Great Vespers – Tone 3
Divine Liturgy – Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women
The Myrrh-bearing women are those women who followed the Lord, along with His Mother. They remained with her during the time of the saving Passion, and anointed the Lord’s body Read more…
Divine Liturgy – St. Thomas Sunday
Some icons depicting this event are inscribed “The Doubting Thomas.” This is incorrect. In Greek, the inscription reads, “The Touching of Thomas.” The Slavonic inscription is, “The Belief of Thomas.” Read more…
Nocturns, Matins
The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the center of the Christian faith. Saint Paul says that if Christ is not raised from the dead, then our preaching Read more…
Bridegroom Matins
These three days, which the Church calls Great and Holy have within the liturgical development of the Holy Week a very definite purpose. They place all its celebrations in the Read more…
Divine Liturgy-Lazarus Saturday
Visible triumphs are few in the earthly life of our Lord Jesus Christ. He preached a kingdom “not of this world.” At His nativity in the flesh there was “no Read more…
Divine Liturgy – Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday is the celebration of the triumphant entrance of Christ into the royal city of Jerusalem. He rode on a colt for which He Himself had sent, and He Read more…
Divine Liturgy – Mary of Egypt
Saint Zosimas (April 4) was a monk at a certain Palestinian monastery on the outskirts of Caesarea. Having dwelt at the monastery since his childhood, he lived there in asceticism Read more…
Divine Liturgy-The Annunciation of the Holy Virgin Mary
The Feast of the Annunciation is one of the earliest Christian feasts, and was already being celebrated in the fourth century. There is a painting of the Annunciation in the Read more…