I give voice to my own heartfelt desire that the Risen Lord, Who loves mankind, will in the midst of our sorrows and temptations, renew us all with the joy of His Life-bearing Resurrection, support faith and piety within us, and illumine us with trust in the coming, eternal celebration “on the never-waning day of His kingdom.”
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The feasts of the Jewish liturgical calendar are biblical commemorations, either being commanded by God in the Bible to be observed or otherwise commemorating a biblical event. Why then do Christians not celebrate them?
Fr. Stephen Freeman
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I consider it both a strange mystery and a settled matter of the faith that God prefers not to do things alone. Repeatedly, He acts in a manner that involves the actions of others when, it would seem, He could have acted alone.
This Byzantine hymn for Holy Tuesday was sung by Margo and David Sinkevitch at St.Catherine Church, the OCA representation in Moscow.
St. Proklos, Patriarch of Constantinople
Our present gathering in honor of the Most Holy Virgin inspires me, brethren, to say of Her a word of praise, of benefit also for those come unto this churchly solemnity.