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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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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Today the Church commemorates an important event in the earthly life of our Lord Jesus Christ (Luke 2:22-40). Forty days after His birth the God-Infant was taken to the Jerusalem Temple, the center of the nation’s religious life. According to the Law of Moses (Lev. 12:2-8), a woman who gave birth to a male child …
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February the 2nd, the Church commemorates an important event in the earthly life of our Lord Jesus Christ (Luke 2:22-40). Forty days after His birth the God-Infant was taken to the Jerusalem Temple, the center of the nation’s religious life. According to the Law of Moses (Lev. 12:2-8), a woman who gave birth to a …
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2024 has been proclaimed as the Romanian Orthodox Church’s homage year for the pastoral care of the sick and the commemoration of all the silverless healing saints. To contemporary eyes, this might seem rather strange, since the divorce between science and theology, in this case medical science, is paradigmatic, and the whole question of organized …
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