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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Feast of the Resurrection inaugurates Pentecostarion period. With the Resurrection of Christ during the kingdom of God opens for hymns and prayers evoked by the Church. God’s kingdom is the kingdom of the Holy Trinity. The period from Easter to Pentecost, is a revelation of the Trinity upward, constantly highlighting the Trinity, the fundamental doctrine …
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We see in the Gospel that obedience is defined as a source of grace, as a source of peace in our hearts. Thomas lives what we all live, hears and does not believe, and then sees Christ and seems not to believe. Only when the dialogue with Christ begins, Thomas’s doubt is overcome, and Thomas …
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Every year, on the first Friday after Easter, the Orthodox Church celebrates the Spring of Healing. It is a feast dedicated to the Mother of God, designed to portray the role of the Virgin Mary in the work of salvation of men. The name of the Source of Healing reminds of a series of miracles …
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Christ is risen! The most beautiful and uplifting feast is the day of Resurrection. This is the day the purest joys of the sweet caresses, the largest wonders on the deepest mysteries. It is “the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” Christ is alive! … Christ lives! …
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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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