Four icons in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher streamed myrrh on the night of May 24, 2022, the day when the Orthodox Church celebrates the memory of Saints Cyril and Methodius. The Patriarchate of Jerusalem is studying this phenomenon and plans to give an official assessment and explanation. The myrrh streaming of icons in […]
Every soul that comes to this world carries the germ of genius, carries the seal of God in itself, carries the “germ” of Christ. The Lord sends every soul from his Kingdom of eternity, every soul the Lord designed before all ages in the breath of that eternal today, in the moment and second of
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When this world seems to you like a dungeon, without a gate, your faith tells you: Do not be afraid! Your Creator holds everything in His power. He calls you son, and He loves you to call Him Father. Your faith protects you from all evil, Christian brother. Whenever trouble befalls you, your faith helps
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This is the story of a Serbian princess who sat on the throne of Constantinople for almost six decades and was the mother of the last two Eastern Roman emperors. The last Byzantine empress Yelena Dragash Paleologos, known in monasticism as Ipomoni, was the great-granddaughter of Saint King Stefan of Dechani. Her father, Serbian nobleman
Let us love Christ! Then the name of Christ will resound from us – accompanied by our longing, warm feeling, love. In fact, we will shout His name secretly, without words. May Christ free us from every presence of the old man in us! Let us turn to him in prayer to give us tears
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By what epithets does the Orthodox Church not glorify the holy great martyr George? “The greatest of the great martyrs”, “known everywhere for miracles”, “rush to the rescue”, etc. These sublime names testify to the countless miracles that have happened and are happening throughout Christendom thanks to the intercession of St. George. Below we offer
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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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