Divine Liturgy – Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women
The Myrrh-bearing women are those women who followed the Lord, along with His Mother. They remained with her during the time of the saving Passion, and anointed the Lord’s body Read more…
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CANCELLED-Great Vespers – Tone 2
Divine Liturgy – St. Thomas Sunday
Some icons depicting this event are inscribed “The Doubting Thomas.” This is incorrect. In Greek, the inscription reads, “The Touching of Thomas.” The Slavonic inscription is, “The Belief of Thomas.” Read more…
Paschal Divine Liturgy
Nocturns, Matins
The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the center of the Christian faith. Saint Paul says that if Christ is not raised from the dead, then our preaching Read more…
Agape (Paschal)Vespers
followed by a Paschal Feast!
The Dawn of Springtime
Why do Christians call their feast Easter? Isn’t that a pagan word? Did European Christians appropriate an existing pagan feast and add it to their religion? When did Christians start Read more…
Is Easter (Pascha) a Pagan Holiday?
Father Jeremy from orthodoxroad.com writes the following: Many of us have read articles or seen memes floating around the internet that attempt to tie the celebration of Christ’s resurrection to Read more…
Parables
Lenten services have lots of parables. Father Jeremy of Orthodox Road recommends the following books to learn more about them: There’s a tendency for us modern folks to feel that Read more…
weapons of mass distraction
I recently read about a single mother who received a four month driving suspension for distracted driving; talking on her phone while driving, two incidences three weeks apart. But because Read more…