It is usually considered that legends and myths are actually fictions and constructions that, true, start from historical events but do not get conveyed factually. However, they carry a spirit and a message that, although seemingly unfounded, contains an ethos that, more than any other fact, influences the formation of ethical and spiritual attitudes in […]
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Someone will ask: how do you say that the risen Lord overcame death, but people are still dying? Whoever enters this life through the mother’s womb, they come out of this life through death and the grave. Only that death for us, who die in Christ, is no longer a dark abyss, but a birth
Every year on Holy Saturday, exactly on the day between the Crucifixion of Golgotha on Good Friday and the Resurrection of the Son of God on Sunday, in Jerusalem, the Fire of Grace descends from heaven to earth. A light and fiery manifestation of the living God who comforts the Church of Christ, testifying that
Good Friday for Orthodox Christians is the saddest and most tragic day of the whole year. There is no greater tragedy and shame in the entire human history than the event of the crucifixion of the Son of God. It is a day of our grief and spiritual sorrow, because of the great injustice that
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The entry of Christ into Jerusalem – Palm Sunday (Greek: Η Είσοδος του Χριστού στα Ιεροσόλυμα), a moving holiday that is celebrated the day after the resurrection of Lazarus, i.e. Lazarus’ Saturday, the sixth week of Lent and the week before Easter. This holiday was established in Jerusalem at the end of the 4th century
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Saint Damascene Studit writes that righteous Lazarus never told what he saw in hell. Seeing the torments of hell, he constantly felt bitterness in his mouth and could not eat anything without first sweetening it. Also, he never laughed. Only once, when he saw how one person stole an earthen court, he grinned and said:
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The Orthodox Church has many holidays as part of the Mother of God. First of all, twelve Great Holidays, and then many holidays in honor of miraculous icons. There are many holidays, but two of the twelve Great Feasts stand out with their meaning and solemnity: one is the bright spring holiday of the Annunciation
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Israeli archaeologists have found a 3,000-year-old lead plate that reproduces a fragment of Deuteronomy 27: 15-26 and Joshua 8:30, threatening disobedient with curses from God, Christianheadlines reports. The new discovery by Israeli archaeologists may be one of the most significant archaeological finds in modern history, as it not only reproduces the biblical text, but also
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Do not think that the word that escapes from the mouth is scattered in the air, and that nothing remains of the word. This is not true. Words are alive, rushing like radio waves, rushing through space and pouring into people’s hearts and minds. Words are a huge force that connects or separates people. The
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It is very important to remember that the Lord humbled himself and became one of us, that he went to great suffering for us, being sinless, that he laid down his soul for us – he did all this precisely because neither our good deeds nor ours knowledge of God, nor anything else could or
