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Another voice shouted angrily, "We didn't come to see this painting. We came to see the Van Goghs, the Rembrandts. Get on with the real bids!"But still the auctioneer continued, "The son! The son! Who'll take the son?"
Archimdrite Kirill (Pavlov)
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By the good master of the house in this parable is meant God the Heavenly Father, Who continually calls us to His supper—that is, the supper in the Kingdom of Heaven, which was prepared for us from the creation of the world, inherited through the acceptance of faith in our Redeemer, Christ the Savior, and which will be revealed toward the end of this world.
David Cheeran, an owner of Bombay Grill here, is an Orthodox Christian, but his staff are all Hindus. Differing religions did not stop manager Pramod Warrier, chef Vijeesh Parayil, the waiters and kitchen workers from welcoming members of St. Paul’s Indian Orthodox Church of Albany, N.Y., which Cheeran attends, who came to sing Christmas carols on Dec. 9.
On December 15/28, the Moscow Sretensky Monastery celebrates one of its major feasts—the commemoration of the uncovering of the relics of Holy Hieromartyr Hilarion (Troitsky), the abbot of the monastery before his arrest and martyric death in 1929. St. Hilarion’s relics are preserved in the monastery’s Church of the Meeting of the Vladimir Mother of God, for veneration by the faithful. One parishioner tells of the miraculous healing of her eyes through the prayers of Holy Hieromartyr Hilarion.
The joy of the Feast of the Nativity is known and experienced through the revelation of God’s divine plan for the salvation of humankind.
