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The Sixteenth Day of Great Lent. Synaxis in Honor of the Archangel Gabriel

03/26/2019

On the Leavetaking of the Feast of the Annunciation, the Church commemorates the Archangel Gabriel, who announced the great mystery of the Incarnation of Christ to the Virgin Mary. Mindful of the manifold appearances of the holy Archangel Gabriel and of his zealous fulfilling of God’s will and confessing his intercession for Christians before the Lord, the Orthodox Church calls upon its children to pray to the great Archangel with faith and love. The Synaxis

The Ninth Day of Christmas. Unimaginable Love.

01/02/2019

[The] Gospels state that God has embraced humanity and entered into its suffering with unimaginable love. His Christ is the one who arrives not in royal purple but in silence and simplicity, far from the cheers that attend Augustus and Herod. A king he surely is—hence the swaddling bands and the treasures that are his due—but a new sort of king who makes no claim to worldly authority. In infancy as during his life on

Witnesses to Silence and Stillness (II)

10/10/2018

Witnesses to Silence and Stillness (II) In a hospital room a number of years ago, a close friend lay dying. For years he had rebelled against God and against his Orthodox faith, expressing that rebellion by indifference to everything connected with the Church. In the last years of his life he had come home. With the simplicity and openness of a child he now turned his face to God and prayed. You could see in

The Eleventh Day of Christmas. The Theophany and Healing (Part I)

01/04/2018

By Fr. George Morelli [1] “And the Spirit, in the form of a dove, confirmed the truthfulness of His word. O Christ our God, who hast revealed Thyself and hast enlightened the world, glory to Thee!” “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. (Mt 9:12) The Feast of the Theophany of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ brings greater understanding of God’s encounter with His Chosen

Thirty-Second Day of Christmas Advent, Meditation: Where is Bethlehem?

12/16/2015

Meditation: Where is Bethlehem? Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea. Where is Bethlehem? Did the Son of God come to be born in a tiny hamlet in far-away Palestine? Or was He born there that He might come to be born somewhere far closer? If Christmas is the time that God chose to come close to us, then Bethlehem must be somewhere very close to us. Where is Bethlehem? It is not far at

The Thirty-Eighth Day of Christmas Advent: For so has God Loved the World (Part I)

12/22/2014

That we begin our reckoning of time with Christ’s birth is a fact which has long been but a mere convention for many. Seldom does one recall and recognize the great event from which we count time. So do we betray our ignorance and insensitivity. In ancient days, time was computed from the Incarnation of God the Word. It signifies that we live in a world which has been renewed and redeemed already, that even

Homily on the Feast of the Annunciation, by Saint Theodore the Studite

03/25/2013

It was spoken on the day of the Annunciation. Brethren and fathers, the Annunciation is here and it is the first of the Feasts of the Lord, and we should not simply celebrate as most do, but with understanding and with reverence for the mystery. What is the mystery? That the Son of God becomes son of man, using the holy Virgin as the means, dwelling in her and from her fashioning for Himself a

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The Sixteenth Day of Great Lent. Synaxis in Honor of the Archangel Gabriel

The Ninth Day of Christmas. Unimaginable Love.

Witnesses to Silence and Stillness (II)

The Eleventh Day of Christmas. The Theophany and Healing (Part I)

Thirty-Second Day of Christmas Advent, Meditation: Where is Bethlehem?

The Thirty-Eighth Day of Christmas Advent: For so has God Loved the World (Part I)

Homily on the Feast of the Annunciation, by Saint Theodore the Studite

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