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Interview with Fr Andrew Phillips (St John the Wonderworker Orthodox Church – Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia)

10 April 2007

Fr Andrew Phillips was born in 1956 in a non practising family that has lived for centuries in the countryside of the Essex-Suffolk border. In childhood he became interested in the history of early ...

Christ the Conqueror of Hell

10 April 2007

Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev

The Byzantine and old Russian icons of the Resurrection of Christ never depict the resurrection itself, i.e., Christ coming out of the grave. They rather depict ‘the descent of Christ into Hades’, ...

Interview with fr. John Behr, St. Vladimir’s Seminary, NY

09 April 2007

And so the Russian tradition has become American - we are American, the 4th-5th generation in America. So in St. Vladimir's we do everything in English. But if the people we are teaching need ...

Holy Week and Pascha in Jerusalem

09 April 2007

For the Christians the greatest feast days and festival were approaching. The time of joy and sorrow was approaching. We rejoiced because of this, that we would receive the new grace of the heavenly ...

Paschal Epistle Of His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad. Christ is Risen!

09 April 2007

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Rejoicing in the Risen Christ, the Source and Fulfillment of our faith and salvation, I sincerely greet the Right Reverend Hierarchs, the all-honorable priests-concelebrants, and the God-loving ...

Holy Easter: Christ is Risen!

08 April 2007

Anastasia Donets

A sacred Pascha today hath been shown unto us: A Pascha new and holy, A Pascha mystical, A Pascha all venerable, A Pascha that is Christ the Redeemer; A Pascha immaculate, a great Pascha; A Pascha ...

Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and all Russia: Paschal Message to Hierarchs, Pastors, Monastics and All Faithful Children of the Russian Orthodox Church (2007)

08 April 2007

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I address now these triumphant words, full of rejoicing, to each of you, Your Graces my brothers the archpastors, most-honourable pastors and deacons, God-loving monks and nuns, and pious laity of ...

Holy Week Day by Day: Great and Holy Saturday

07 April 2007

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Great and Holy Saturday is the day on which Christ reposed in the tomb. The Church calls this day the Blessed Sabbath."The great Moses mystically foreshadowed this day when he said: God blessed ...

Holy Week Day by Day: Good Friday

05 April 2007

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As the priest reads the Gospel, and taking the body, Joseph wrapped it in a white cloth," he removes the Body of Christ from the Cross, wraps It in a white cloth and takes It to the altar. The ...

Holy week Day by Day. Holy Thursday: The Last Supper

04 April 2007

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Two events shape the Liturgy of Great and Holy Thursday: the Last Supper of Christ with His disciples, and the betrayal of Judas. The meaning of both lies in love

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