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Orthodox Great Lent: a complete guide — dates, ...
There is a moment every year when the Orthodox Church changes its face. The services grow longer. The lights are dimmed. The prostrations begin. The ordinary Divine Liturgy disappears on...
Orthodox Great Lent: a complete guide — dates, ...
There is a moment every year when the Orthodox Church changes its face. The services grow longer. The lights are dimmed. The prostrations begin. The ordinary Divine Liturgy disappears on...
The Twelve Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church:...
The Orthodox liturgical year is one of the most richly structured sacred calendars in all of Christianity. At its heart stand the Twelve Great Feasts — the Dodekaorton — a...
The Twelve Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church:...
The Orthodox liturgical year is one of the most richly structured sacred calendars in all of Christianity. At its heart stand the Twelve Great Feasts — the Dodekaorton — a...
The Annunciation of the Mother of God: a comple...
Nazareth. An ordinary house. A young woman alone in the silence. And then an angel enters — without knocking, without warning — and speaks a greeting no one has ever...
The Annunciation of the Mother of God: a comple...
Nazareth. An ordinary house. A young woman alone in the silence. And then an angel enters — without knocking, without warning — and speaks a greeting no one has ever...
The Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem: a complet...
Jerusalem. The Mount of Olives. A man rides down toward the holy city on a donkey, amid a crowd that shouts, that throws cloaks onto the road, that waves palm...
The Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem: a complet...
Jerusalem. The Mount of Olives. A man rides down toward the holy city on a donkey, amid a crowd that shouts, that throws cloaks onto the road, that waves palm...
The Meeting of the Lord in the Temple: a comple...
There is an old man in the Gospel of Luke about whom almost nothing is known — not his exact age, not his family, not his occupation — but about...
The Meeting of the Lord in the Temple: a comple...
There is an old man in the Gospel of Luke about whom almost nothing is known — not his exact age, not his family, not his occupation — but about...
The Theophany — The Baptism of the Lord: a comp...
Water. Everything begins and returns to water in this feast. The water of the Jordan, cold in this month of January, into which a thirty-year-old man descends and immerses himself...
The Theophany — The Baptism of the Lord: a comp...
Water. Everything begins and returns to water in this feast. The water of the Jordan, cold in this month of January, into which a thirty-year-old man descends and immerses himself...