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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In the 1970s, when speaking about Christ in public was not only forbidden but also extremely dangerous, a professor at the University of Letters in Bucharest dared to include the Bible as a subject of study in her courses. She was one of the most important voices in Romanian culture. Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga, who, toward the …
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In the time of the pious Greek Emperor Alexius and the Patriarch of Constantinople, Nicholas, when the Christ-loving Grand Prince of Kiev, Vsevolod Yaroslavich, and Vladimir the Noble, his son, the lord of Chernigov, who later took the name Monomakh, there was an invasion by the Ismailis against the Greek dominion on the other side …
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According to Orthodox tradition, when infants and young children are baptized, they must have a single godparent of the same sex as the person being baptized. By extension, if the godfather is married, his wife (or the godmother’s husband) is also considered part of this spiritual bond, and the canonical consequences of kinship extend to …
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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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