Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in all four […]
Tag: Great Lent – Triodion
Meat-Fare Sunday
(Matthew 25:3l-46) The fathers of the Church, guided by the Holy Spirit, consecrated the Triodion as a time of preparation for the fast of Great Lent, which in turn […]
Sunday of the Prodigal Son
(Luke l5: ll-32) 16/02/2014 Today’s Gospel embodies God’s message to the world. The Parable of the Prodigal Son shows us the longing of the Holy Trinity for the repentance of […]
Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee
Luke l8: l0-l4 09/02/2014 It was very characteristic of our Lord Jesus Christ that in order to teach the Divine Truth, He used examples taken from the daily life of […]
Akathist
The Akathist Hymn (Ἀκάθιστος Ὕμνος, unseated hymn) is a hymn of Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic tradition dedicated to a saint, holy event, or one of the persons […]
St. John οf the Ladder. The 4th Sunday οf Lent
When we are out in the country, enjoying the peace and quietness of nature, and it is night and the sky is clear, we often look up at […]
To the 4th Salutations
The moral condition of a society is estimated on the values and the virtues which it accepts, believes in and practices. These values and virtues set […]
The 3rd Sunday of Great Lent
(Mark 8:34-9:l) In today’s Gospel our Lord pinpoints certain essential requirements for true discipleship. Our Lord invites all men to become His disciples, but He wants their love to […]
On the 3rd Salutations
Because of God’s Love towards His creation, He did not leave alone the fallen man. The first promise which was given, when the first created were still in […]
2nd Sunday of the Lend St. Gregory Palamas
On the second Sunday of Lent our Church commemorates St. Gregory Palamas, who played a leading role in the triumph of Orthodoxy at a very difficult time in its […]