Материалы 13 февраля 2016 г.

31 января / 13 февраля 2016 г. Суббота 37-й седмицы по Пятидесятнице. Сретенский монастырь. Великая вечерня, утреня. Хор Сретенского монастыря.

Документ принят по итогам встречи Святейшего Папы Римского Франциска и Святейшего Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла, которая прошла 12 февраля 2016 года в Гаване (Куба).

Удивительно, но первое известное нам изображение распятия является карикатурой. Это граффито примерно III века на стене палатинского дворца в Риме, оно изображает человека перед распятием, причем сам распятый кощунственно изображен с ослиной головой. Надпись, сделанная по-гречески поясняет: «Αλεξαμενος ςεβετε θεον» (Алексамен поклоняется своему Богу).

In one South East Asian country, which cannot be identified for security reasons, a dozen people working for two weeks were able to translate eighteen books. In South Asia, 29 translators were able to translate 76 per cent of the New Testament in just four days.

Our question then must be “What must I do in order to show the Lord Jesus that He is welcome to invite Himself into my home, into my life and into my heart?” Let’s look at our daily lives and habits as a place to start and initiate our conversation with the Lord.

By May 2016, the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library in St. Petersburg will have created a collection titled "Holy Synod in the History of the Russian State", which will include more than 1,000 units.

Dr. Gary Jenkins, a member of St. Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church in Emmaus, PA and a professor at Eastern University in the Philadelphia area, has overseen the creation of series of programs for Orthodox students at the university.

Rev. John Romas, pastor of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Lower Manhattan for 30 years, died of pancreatic cancer on Jan. 24, 2016. Had he not died of cancer, he would have died today of a heart attack, seeing his beloved church eclipsed by the erection of the new St. Nicholas, a glitzy new edifice, bearing no resemblance to his humble church, except for the name.

On the occasion of the anniversary of his enthronement, Patriarch Kirill and Met. Hilarion (Alfeyev) sent greetings to His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch.

Christ is the well–spring of joy and hope. Faith in Him transfigures human life, fills it with meaning. This is the conviction borne of the experience of all those to whom Peter refers in his words: “Once you were ‘no people’ but now you are God’s people; you ‘had not received mercy’ but now you have received mercy” (1 Pet 2:10).

Patriarch Kirill came to Cuba on February 11 and will stay till February 14 as part of his first pastor’s visit to Latin American countries

У храму Покрова Пресвете Богородице у Поткозарју данас су служени литургија и парастос поводом 74 године од стравичног покоља над више стотина српских цивила, које су усташе починиле у поткозарским селима Ивањска (данашње Поткозарје) и Пискавица 1942. године.