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Vigils are starting on Palm Sunday night until Good Friday, when singing the Lamentations of the Lord. The word “denia” comes from slavic “vdenie” and mean nocturnal vigil or service. In Transylvania, we meet the word “straste”. This term has the meaning of “passion”. The phrase “go in strasti” means “go to denia”. Vigils are …
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Why is commemorated Saint Mary of Egypt in Lent? Saint Mary of Egypt is commemorated during Lent for a few reasons. First, it is par excellence an example of Christian repentance, for left dissolute life he was living, living a life of asceticism extreme desert and prayer, for love of Christ. Lent is also a …
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In Lent, on ordinary days, fasting is severe, but on Saturdays and Sundays fasting receives something of the light of the Resurrection, the garments are no longer dark, but bright. Fasting continues, but it receives the consolation of the Liturgy, that is to say, of Communion with the Body and Blood of Christ. This reality …
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Annunciation or popular Blagovestenia (Slavic) reminds us that day proclaimed Archangel Gabriel Virgin that would give birth to the Son of God. This is the first festival of the Virgin confirmed in documents. Celebration date ranged from the beginning, some a feast on the eve of Epiphany, on January 5, and others, in certain Western …
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In these first days of Lent, the Church gathers us all around the analogue to sing together the Great Canon of St. Andrew the Cretan, a text rich in symbolism and dense in meaning. From a terminological point of view, the canon, coming from the Hebrew “qaneh”, means reed, measure, generally designating the rules of …
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Our Church celebrates the Divine Liturgy and the Mass of Remembrance of the Dead on Saturday, February 22 (The Winter Departed) and Saturday, March 8 (Saint Theodore’s Saturday), from 10 am On Saturday, February 22, the Orthodox Church commemorates those who have passed away. This Saturday is popularly known as the “Winter of the Dead”. …
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