When you are about to pray to our Lady the Holy Virgin, be firmly assured, before praying, that you will not depart from her without having received mercy.
To think thus and to have confidence in her is meet and right. She is, the All-Merciful Mother of the All-Merciful God, the Word, and her mercies, incalculably great and innumerable, have been declared from all ages by all Christian Churches; she is, indeed, an abyss of mercies and bounties.
☦️ St John of #Kronstadt
To think thus and to have confidence in her is meet and right. She is, the All-Merciful Mother of the All-Merciful God, the Word, and her mercies, incalculably great and innumerable, have been declared from all ages by all Christian Churches; she is, indeed, an abyss of mercies and bounties.
☦️ St John of #Kronstadt
The “Triodion” refers to the ten weeks leading up to Pascha as well as to the book which contains the hymns, readings, and prayers specific to this season.
The name "Triodion" means “three odes”. During this period, the Canons (the series of hymns sung at Matins) contain only three odes instead of the usual nine.
The Lenten Triodion book is used continuously in services from the Sunday of the Publican through Great Lent and Holy and Great Week.
The name "Triodion" means “three odes”. During this period, the Canons (the series of hymns sung at Matins) contain only three odes instead of the usual nine.
The Lenten Triodion book is used continuously in services from the Sunday of the Publican through Great Lent and Holy and Great Week.
Consider well, my soul: dost thou fast? Then despise not thy neighbour.
Dost thou abstain from food? Condemn not thy brother.
Come, let us cleanse ourselves by almsgiving and acts of mercy to the poor,
Not sounding a trumpet or making a show of our charity. Let not our left hand know what our right hand is doing; Let not vainglory scatter the fruit of our almsgiving;
But in secret let us call on Him that knows all secrets: Father, forgive us our trespasses, for Thou lovest mankind.
Dost thou abstain from food? Condemn not thy brother.
Come, let us cleanse ourselves by almsgiving and acts of mercy to the poor,
Not sounding a trumpet or making a show of our charity. Let not our left hand know what our right hand is doing; Let not vainglory scatter the fruit of our almsgiving;
But in secret let us call on Him that knows all secrets: Father, forgive us our trespasses, for Thou lovest mankind.
St. Nicholas of Japan (Feb 16) was the first to bring Orthodoxy to Japan. There are now more than forty active Orthodox churches. The parishioners of the country’s main Orthodox church— the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Tokyo— are not mostly transplanted faithful from Russia and other Orthodox lands but are mainly Japanese.
Those forces that are preparing the appearance of Antichrist will have a leading significance in public life. Antichrist will be a man and not the devil incarnate. … That man wants to be in place of Christ, to occupy His place and possess that which Christ ought to possess. He wants to possess the same attraction and authority over the whole world.
And he will receive that authority before his own destruction and that of the whole world. He will have a helper, a Magus, who, by the power of false miracles, will fulfill his will and kill those that do not recognize the authority of Antichrist.
— from “The Antichrist and the Signs of the End of the World a Homily on the Last Judgement” by ☦️ St John Maximovitch
And he will receive that authority before his own destruction and that of the whole world. He will have a helper, a Magus, who, by the power of false miracles, will fulfill his will and kill those that do not recognize the authority of Antichrist.
— from “The Antichrist and the Signs of the End of the World a Homily on the Last Judgement” by ☦️ St John Maximovitch
O Prophet of God and Forerunner of Grace, your head has blossomed from the earth as a sacred rose. We are ever being healed, for as of old, You preach repentance to the world.
☦ Kontakion (Tone 3), First and second finding of the Honourable Head of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist of the Lord, John
☦ Kontakion (Tone 3), First and second finding of the Honourable Head of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist of the Lord, John
God commanded Adam to fast (Gen. 2:16), but he did not obey. Let us repent of our own disobedience, “let us, each of us, pass a judgment on our whole soul, on our whole life; judge ourselves justly and honestly, and ask forgiveness not only from God … but also from all those to whom we have not been a help on their journey to God.”
☦️Metropolitan Anthony Bloom, Sermon at Forgiveness Sunday Vespers, 1999
☦️Metropolitan Anthony Bloom, Sermon at Forgiveness Sunday Vespers, 1999
Lenten Prayer of ☦️ St Ephrem
O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust of power, and idle talk.
But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience, and love to Thy servant.
Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own transgressions, and not to judge my brother, for blessed art Thou, unto ages of ages. Amen.
O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust of power, and idle talk.
But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience, and love to Thy servant.
Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own transgressions, and not to judge my brother, for blessed art Thou, unto ages of ages. Amen.