Dormition Fast begins each year on August 1st and lasts two weeks (1-15 August). It is also known as Holy Great Lent or Saintmary’s Fast. It prepares Christians for two major celebrations in August: Transfiguration (6 August) and Assumption (15 August). The origin of this fast was fixed in the fifth century, when developed cult …
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One question that was constantly put to Fr. Arsenius was whether, given the rich experience of his life, with its heavy years of imprisonment and periods of retreat in the wilderness, a miracle had been worked on him. Father deftly avoided a direct answer, judging the question to be more of curiosity than of use. …
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Holy Martyr Panteleimon is one of the most famous and venerated saints of the Church. Commemorated on 27 July is called “doctor without silver,” thereby revealing how he pretended not to anybody any kind of payment for the favors committed. It is considered the patron of doctors and healer of the sick, the doctor follows …
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Holy Prophet Elijah the Tishbite is celebrated on July 20. Saint Elias was the son of Sovac, a priest of the Old Law, who lived in the city TESVA, Gilead (Israel). From the name of this city, we have the name of the prophet of Tishbite. Enjoys a special honor from the Church, if we …
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It is the celebration of the oldest holy martyrs known as the territory of Dobrogea, Epictetus and Astion, the Orthodox Church commemorates on 8 July. Description of life and their passion was kept in the Acts of the Martyrs with large details. They are known as saints Halmyris, the ancient Christian city located on the …
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Although they are small, these catacombs are very rich in meanings. The name was originally given ad catacumbas galleries here, then this name became common to all Christian underground cemeteries. In these catacombs are buried some martyrs century III: Eutichius, Quirinius, Maximus and Sebastian. In the third century, the catacombs have become the most important …
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Pentecost descends upon Banat with traditions that interweave the sacred with the profane, the common man being unable to separate the beautiful stories of fairy dances from the Christic significance of the birth of Christ’s church and the descent of the Holy Spirit in the form of tongues of fire on the apostles who followed …
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St. Mark the Evangelist opens his Gospel with the beginning of preaching among men and of the service of Christ in the world. And it does not take long to portray in its true meaning Malachi’s prophecy about John the Baptist, an angel who will go before the face of the Lord: “Behold, I send …
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After the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the community of Christ’s disciples becomes the Church, that is, the assembly of all the elect in the world who believe in the Holy Trinity, are baptized and partake of the same Holy Mysteries of Christ, through the work and because of the presence of the Holy Spirit …
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Feast of the Ascension is always present for us because we can not meet with Christ other than the one who ascended to heaven. We can not think of Christ only as one who sits at the right hand of God, we can not have him in mind Christ than as the one that is …
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