It is with great sadness that we received the news of the passing of Father Dumitru Colotelo, a priest of exceptional academic and spiritual stature. After a life devoted to study, education, and service to the Church, Father Dumitru has gone to his eternal rest, trusting in the mercy and love of the Holy Trinity. …
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In the early 16th century, Montanina Ottoni, a lady from Matelica, found this weeping icon abandoned in a thicket, according to the legend presented on a website for the city of Fabriano in the province of Ancona, in the Marche region of Italy, in whose cathedral — the Cathedral of San Venanzio — the holy …
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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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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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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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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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He who face Cross shining in the sky more than the sun you saw the victory sign Lord well you discovered that armed out all enemies you’ve overcome, now and as those who bow before the icon your Holy king Constantine gives us, along with your good mother, Empress Helena, help those who sing to …
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Ranked third among the Athonite monasteries, the Iviron Lavra is located in the northeastern part of Mount Athos, in a small cove near the mouth of a river. The monastery’s founding is attested to between the years 980 and 985. The founder of this monastery was Saint John Ivirit (Varasvatze), a general of the Byzantine …
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