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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The Holy Great Martyr Theodore the Recruit (Tyro) was a soldier in the city of Alasium of the Pontine district (northeast province of Asia Minor, stretching along the coast of the Euxine, i.e. the Black Sea), under the command of a certain Brincus. They commanded him to offer sacrifice to idols. St Theodore firmly confessed …

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The first day of Lent, the Great Canon song gives the believer “key” to understanding the harsh journey he has to go to Resurrection repentance, newness of life, return to God. Creation of St. Andrew, Archbishop of Crete, Canon exceeds the amount any other canon hymnodic. At the same time, the depth of the ideas …

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