O Lord God, our Saviour, Jesus Christ, our only Maker and Redeemer, Who art timelessly begotten of the Heavenly Father and Who for love for mankind didst deign to be incarnate in time by the power of the Holy Spirit in the pure womb of Thine all-holy, ever-virgin Mother Mary and Whose Messiah-ship was first [...]
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St. Helen, the mother of St. Constantine the Great, when she was al-ready advanced in years, undertook, in her great piety, the hardships of a journey to Jerusalem in search of the Cross, about the year 325. A temple to Aphrodite had been erected up by the Emperor Hadrian upon Golgotha to defile & cover [...] Video from Hellas Orthodoxy This video provides two (2) somewhat different views of the Holy Week & Paschal festival. 1. the Protaton, the catholicon, or main church of Mount Athos. Karyies is the capital of the semi-au tonomous Republic of Mount Athos. Karyies, centered on the catholicon of the Protaton, is the administrative center [...] Seven of the vices discussed in St. John Cassian’s On the Eight Vices are familiar to most Americans as “the Seven Deadly Sins”. The seventh in his list of eight is taught as a virtue in our schools. Here are St. John Cassian’s remarks ON SELF-ESTEEM Our seventh struggle is against the demon of [...] A brother asked Abba Sisoes, “Did Satan pursue them like this in the early days?” The old man said to him, “He does this more at the present time, because his time is nearly finished and he is enraged.” O Only Son of God, receive me into Your wisdom. You are the head of all the sons of men. You are their heavenly comprehension, illumination and jubilation. You are the One who thinks the same goodness in all men: the same thought and the same light. A man recognizes another man through You. A man [...] For an explanation of the present Feast & understanding of its truth, it is necessary for us to turn to the very start of today’s reading from the Gospel: “Now after 6 days Jesus took Peter, James & John, his brother, & led them up onto a high mountain by themselves” (Mt 17:1). |
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