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The Nativity of Christ: a complete guide to Ort...
There are two Christmases. One begins in October, floods the shop windows, swells from the loudspeakers of shopping malls, gets consumed in a few days and leaves a faint hollow...
The Nativity of Christ: a complete guide to Ort...
There are two Christmases. One begins in October, floods the shop windows, swells from the loudspeakers of shopping malls, gets consumed in a few days and leaves a faint hollow...
The Entry of the Mother of God into the Temple:...
Picture the scene. Jerusalem, two thousand years ago. A three-year-old girl climbs alone, with a firm and steady step, the fifteen stairs that lead to the forecourt of the Temple....
The Entry of the Mother of God into the Temple:...
Picture the scene. Jerusalem, two thousand years ago. A three-year-old girl climbs alone, with a firm and steady step, the fifteen stairs that lead to the forecourt of the Temple....
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross: a complete gu...
There is a feast in the Orthodox liturgical year that puzzles at first encounter: a great feast observed with the same strict fast as Good Friday. A feast of joy,...
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross: a complete gu...
There is a feast in the Orthodox liturgical year that puzzles at first encounter: a great feast observed with the same strict fast as Good Friday. A feast of joy,...
The Nativity of the Mother of God: a complete g...
On September 1, the Orthodox Church celebrates the beginning of a new liturgical year — the beginning of the Indiction, as the hymns call it. And eight days later, as...
The Nativity of the Mother of God: a complete g...
On September 1, the Orthodox Church celebrates the beginning of a new liturgical year — the beginning of the Indiction, as the hymns call it. And eight days later, as...
The Dormition of the Mother of God: a complete ...
At the height of summer, when the days begin to shorten and the heat reaches its peak, the Orthodox Church celebrates one of its most tender and mysterious feasts: the...
The Dormition of the Mother of God: a complete ...
At the height of summer, when the days begin to shorten and the heat reaches its peak, the Orthodox Church celebrates one of its most tender and mysterious feasts: the...
The Transfiguration of the Lord: a complete gui...
The Transfiguration of the Lord — in Greek Metamorphosis tou Kyriou, "the transformation of the Lord" — is one of the Twelve Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church, the Dodekaorton....
The Transfiguration of the Lord: a complete gui...
The Transfiguration of the Lord — in Greek Metamorphosis tou Kyriou, "the transformation of the Lord" — is one of the Twelve Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church, the Dodekaorton....