Universal Exaultation of the Venerable and Life-giving Cross (September 14) On September 14th, for centuries, when the feast of the Elevation of the Cross was celebrated in cathedrals, the bishop would take his place in the center of the church …
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The Feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos
The Feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos (September 8) The Church’s veneration of Mary has always been rooted in her obedience to God, her willing choice to accept a humanly impossible calling. The Orthodox Church has …
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The Fifteen Fasting Days of the Dormitition of the Most Holy Theotokos
The Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos (August 15) In August the Church celebrates the end of Mary’s earthly life, her death, known as her Falling Asleep or Dormition, a word in which dream, blessedness, peace, calm, and joy …
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The Sanctification of Life
The Sanctification of Time and of Life Fr. Alexander Schmemann (1963) As I was preparing for this lecture I was thinking of my impressions of the last two weeks which I spent in Montreal where I attended a meeting …
JOURNEY TOWARDS PENTECOST
JOURNEY TO PENTECOST THE FEAST OF PENTECOST Fr. Alexander Schmemann In the Church’s annual liturgical cycle, Pentecost is “the last and great day.” It is the celebration by the Church of the coming of the Holy Spirit as the end …
The Feast of the Ascension of the Lord
THE JOURNEY TO PENTECOST The Ascension of Christ: What is the Ascension and What is Heaven? Fr Alexander Schmemann “The feast of the Ascension is the celebration of heaven now opened to human beings, heaven as the new and eternal …
CHRIST IS RISEN!
PASCHA 2014 CHRIST IS RISEN! The Paschal Sermon of Saint John Chrysostom If any man be devout and love God, let him enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast. If any man be a wise servant, let him rejoicing enter …
GREAT AND HOLY WEEK – PASCHA 2014
The Ultimate Passage Pascha means passover, passage. The Feast of Passover was for the Jews the annual commemoration of their whole history as salvation, and of salvation as passage from the slavery of Egypt into freedom, from exile into the …
