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Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

November 9 is the feast-day of Claudia Procula, Pontius Pilate’s wife. She was recognized as a holy martyr by the Greek Orthodox, the Coptic and the Ethiopian Churches. The episode connected with her is perhaps among the most mysterious.

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Will We Follow After Him?

A Homily on the Lord's Entrance into Jerusalem

Fr. Dimitry Dudko

Now we have the solemn service, and here we are with branches. This is the external side. The internal is concealed within the All-Night Vigil. Christ knows that His hour is near, when these rapturous people, praising Him thusly, will soon cry out, “Crucify, crucify!” And as their delight was hard to contain, so was their rage. But while everything is festive, the earthly affair is finished, having reached its climax: “Hosanna in the highest!” And we cry aloud to Thee, “Blessed is He who cometh in the name of the Lord. We magnify Thee, O Christ the Giver of Life.”

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The Joy of Palm Sunday

Fr. Luke Veronis

So how can we make joy a central part of our lives? Let me offer three concrete suggestions...

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“Do you believe that he will rise again?” Homily on Lazarus Saturday

Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Surozh

The Lord is stronger than death, the Lord has overcome it; not only in the obvious sense in which it is manifested in the bodily raising of Lazarus, but in another sense that concerns us from day to day even more directly.

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Human Nature Transfigured Through the Theotokos

Fr. Ted Bobosh

God’s plan for salvation may come from all eternity and heaven, but it is realized only in time on earth. The hymns of Great Lent dealing with redemption remind us how our salvation is worked out through the Virgin Theotokos.

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Rejoice! For the Ancient Curse is Annulled

Jesse Dominick

“For just as pain and sorrow came upon Eve and all her offspring until now, so too does the joy of Mary come upon all of her descendants,” declares St. Macarius the Great.

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Archimandrite Cleopa (Ilie). King Manasseh's Repentance

Archimandrite Cleopa (Ilie)

This king committed so many sins that it is even beyond expression. But the Most Holy God, wishing to demonstrate the depth of His mercy and the boundless compassion towards people, in His providence led Manasseh to repentance. How did it come to pass?

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Aiding the needy a powerful experience

Fr. Barnabas Powell

A highlight of this time comes after the line dies down, when we take off our gloves and sit to eat with the men we've come to feed.

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How to Overcome Your Sins and Passions? A Lenten Interview with the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

Metropolitan Onuphry (Berezovsky)

The primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church gives practical recommendations for how to defeat the sinful inclinations of the soul.

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How God Proves His Love

Fr. James Guirguis

As we draw near to Holy Week we should take a few moments to reflect and meditate on this amazing Messiah, this Christ who loves each of us so dearly that He is willing to accept the worst that we have to offer in order to give us the best of what belongs to Him.

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In Praise of the Mother of God

Archimdrite Kirill (Pavlov)

Out of her limitless love for the human race, she takes to heart every tear, every trouble, and every sigh, and unceasingly prays to her divine Son and Lord that He be merciful towards human iniquity and deliver His servants from every evil.

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VIDEO: The Nature of Depression

Fr. Dmitrius Basalygo

In this video. Fr. Dmitrius Basalygo speaks about depression, which the holy fathers considered one of the most severe passions of the soul, which hinders us from taking up our Cross and becoming that which Christ created us to be.

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The Cry of the Humbled Heart—the Ascetical Significance of the Great Canon

Bishop Irenei (Steenberg)

There is something unique, something astonishing about this text. However many times we have heard it or read it before, each time it is encountered, each time its words, together with the special melodies that we sing, with the bows, the demeanor with which we experience them—each time, they effect us in a remarkable way.

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The Scroll of Life. A Word on Thursday of the Fifth Week of Great Lent

Metropolitan Nicholai (Yarushevich)

What the Lord will say to each of us—that’s His holy will. But, while we yet live, while we yet walk this earth, while we yet have these great and saving days of repentance given us by the Lord, let us bring our repentance to the Lord, with tears! Do not be ashamed of these tears, for our guardian angel collects these tears unseen.

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Christ’s Conversation with the Sadducees

Patriarch Pavle

The Sadducees were rationalists; that is, they relied only on their minds, not understanding that in Holy Scripture God has opened to us as much as we can understand and as much as we need for salvation—that is, truth which exceeds the capacity of our limited minds.

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The Ladder to the Kingdom of Heaven

Fr. Andrew Lemeshonok

The forthcoming week is devoted to a great ascetic – Saint John Climacus. Spiritual life is a ladder, which leads to the Heavenly Kingdom. We climb it, we fall down, we hit the ground, we stand up and we fall again. The thing is, we need to stand up over and over again. The ascetics, who devoted their lives to studying spiritual laws and struggling against sin have left to us a number of works for edification. However, we need to be prudent.

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“Why Go to Church If I Have God in My Heart?”

Andrei Gorbachev

Today one can often hear the phrase: “Why go to church if I have God in my heart?” It would seem that one could only envy this person. True, if God is in your heart, then church-going is seen as something quite unnecessary.

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Climacus

Archpriest Andrei Tkachev

The Ladder is not the Typikon; it has a different value. There are no prayer rules written there, no defined number of prostrations or amount of food to partake of. More important things are disclosed there, the effect of which is not revealed to the superficial gaze. In fact, the reading of such books is healing from blindness. And we ourselves, no matter how many years the Lord metes out to us, will never understand our inner life with such depth and clarity as did Abbot John of Mt. Sinai.

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Struggling Courageously Through Lent

Fr. James Guirguis

The Church reminds us during this fourth Sunday of Lent that none of our efforts will go to waste.

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Why Do We Need The Ladder?

Answers from pastors

Anna Erakhtina

In our time, many laypeople ask the question: Why should people of the twenty-first century act according to rules written by monks and for monks in deep antiquity? Why should they read monastic books in which there isn’t even a remote mention of the problems that we face today?

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