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Keeping the Joy of Resurrection for the Entire Church Year

Fr. Andrew Lemeshonok

There is only one way for an Orthodox Christian – the way to Christ. All the other ways will bring us to a dead end sooner or later. The dead end where we will find nothing but our own “self”, our personal madness and loneliness.

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The True Temple

A Homily for Bright Friday

Archpriest Alexander Shargunov

The Lord reminds us how dangerous is every impiety. From it is gradually created an atmosphere of wickedness—such that, according to Scripture, “the man of lawlessness” will be able to sit in the Temple, representing himself as God.

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St. Gregory of Nazianzus’s Second Oration on Pascha

St. Gregory of Nazianzus

We were put to death together with Him, that we might be cleansed; we rose again with Him because we were put to death with Him; we were glorified with Him, because we rose again with Him.

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On Being Born of Spirit

A Word on the Gospel Reading for Bright Thursday

Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov

The Spirit of God teaches a man humility, that is, the awareness and sense of one’s own infirmity. Grace sometimes conceals its actions, but sometimes God’s grace powerfully acts on a man, as if returning to him his wings, enlightening his mind, making every word of prayer coming forth from his lips a fiery arrow, soaring into Heaven.

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Pascha: The Resurrection (2017)

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Despite the Good News and tragically many still choose death. Orthodoxy sees death as an evil – separation from God. Christ tramples down death by His own death and shows us the way to remain united to the Source of Life even through suffering and death.

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“Death Has Lost Its Power and Authority”

A Paschal Interview with Met. Onuphry

Metropolitan Onuphry (Berezovsky)

How were simple fishermen able to spread the news of the Resurrected Christ throughout the whole world? Why do we not bury the dead on Pascha? Do we have to fast before Communion during Bright Week? His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry speaks on these and other issues in this interview.

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Five Rules of Paschal Joy

Irina Sechina

According to what rules does Paschal joy abide in the soul, and what should we do if this joy leaves us?

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How to Share the Joy of Pascha with Others

Igumen Nektary (Morozov)

The feast of the Resurrection of Christ is the most important for Christians. “Enjoy ye all the feast of faith: Receive ye all the riches of loving-kindness,” St. John Chrysostom summons us in his catechetical word on the feast of Pascha. The joy of the resurrected Savior is appointed for every man on earth, but not all know about it and not all understand how to join in this common exaltation. Igumen Nektary (Morozov) talks about how to share the joy of Pascha with others.

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Paschal Epistles of Our Orthodox Primates 2017

On the occasion of the glorious feast of our Lord's Pascha, our primates from around the world sent epistles of joy to their faithful flocks.

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To Die With Christ

A Homily for Holy Saturday

St. Seraphim (Sobolev)

What does it mean to live with Christ? To live with Christ means to dwell with Him in unity; and unity with Christ is nothing other than our love for Him, the desire of our hearts to ever contemplate Him, to ever prayerfully converse with Him, and to do only that which is pleasing to Him.

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Sermon on Great and Holy Friday

St. Philaret of Moscow

What would you now, brethren, from the ministers of the word? The Word Himself is no more!

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Do You Recognize Him?

A Word Before the Holy Plaschanitsa in Christ the Savior Cathedral

Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Egorievsk

The holy Church enjoins all Orthodox Christians to stand before this icon today, and ask ourselves, “Do I recognize Him?”

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The Lord Gave Us a Testament This Day

A Sermon on Holy Thursday

Fr. Dimitry Smirnov

The Lord gave us a testament this day. First, He washed the feet of His disciples, then broke bread, blessed the wine, and said, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me (Lk. 22:19). This is the highest form of thanksgiving of man to God, because, what can tiny man, a practically helpless creature, do to thank the Almighty God? Nothing—only try to fulfill His will and try to do that which He has asked of us. Therefore, the participation of concrete people, living on this round earth, in the Mystery of the Eucharist is the fulfillment of His Divine will.

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Into Zion’s Upper Room

A Homily for Holy Thursday

Holy Hierach Innocent (Borisov)

But what to do, brethren, for those of us who, in the time of spiritual wandering in the desert of fasting, did not stop turning our faces and hearts to Egypt, murmured at the bitter waters of repentance, and then, when Moses received the law on the mount, worshiped the golden calf at the foot of the mountain?

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Betrayal. A Sermon on Great Wednesday

Hieromonk Pavel (Scherbachev)

No passion is born suddenly. It is carried and nurtured, and like a plant that grows from a seed, it has its own conditions, its own causes, its own periods and time before it pours out into action.

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Holy Week as a way to be with Christ

Fr. Andrew Lemeshonok

On the one hand, the Lord voluntarily accepts sufferings, which means His death. On the other hand, His steps towards Golgotha is a feast for us. We partake of Holy Communion, we take His love and thus we can live. The majority of people do not live today, but simply exist. They try to do their best to live in comfort, they build and collect something, they try to make their life more interesting and entertaining, to make it be more diverse. However, they just cannot admit that all these things are unreal, that everything will end sooner or later, and people will be separated from their loved ones.

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Hasten to the tree of the Cross of Christ

A Homily on Holy Wednesday

Holy Hierach Innocent (Borisov)

Today is the day of the Lord’s betrayal, a day dark and dolorous, which is why the Holy Church marks it on par with the day of the Lord’s death, with the seal of fasting throughout the whole year.

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Archimdrite Kirill (Pavlov)

Now more than ever we must remember this admonishment, for especially now many are dormant and sleeping. The sleep of the soul is not bodily sleep, which strengthens the body, but rather, it is an unhealthy sleep, a painful slumber in which people chase after vanity, thinking they are living a true life, forgetting about the soul, about God, and about the future eternal life.

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The Bridegroom and Judgment

Fr. Stephen Freeman

The first three days of Holy Week are collectively known as the End. And it is this End that forms the character of judgment. The end of something always reveals the truth of a thing.

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A House of Prayer

A Homily on Holy Monday

Hieromonk Irenei (Pikovsky)

What do these two strange actions, the driving out of the moneychangers from the Temple, and the cursing of the barren fig tree, signify?

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