Basilica News Agency- Iulian Dumitraşcu -25/4/2020 On Bright Tuesday, the third day of Holy Pascha, the wonderworking Axion Estin (It is Truly Meet) Icon of the Mother of God from Romania’s famous Sihăstria Monastery was carried in procession, with the monks entreating God for relief from the coronavirus pandemic and drought. The procession took place after the ...
Basilica News Agency - Aurelian Iftimiu - 17/4/2020 In this year’s pastoral encyclical for Holy Pascha, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel highlights the mystery of Christ’s Resurrection noting that the faith in the resurrection ‘helps us not to lose our hope in the face of life’s hardships.’ ‘Let us ask more insistently for the help of the crucified and ...
The Jerusalem Patriarchate - 20/3/18 From March 19/ April 1, to March 27/April 9 2018 Palm Sunday; Vespers at 3:30 pm Service of the Bridegroom at 6:15 pm Holy and Great Monday; The Hours and the Pre-sanctified Liturgy at 6.30 am Great Compline at 3:30 pm Service of the Bridegroom at 6:15 pm Holy and Great Tuesday; The Hours and the Pre-sanctified Liturgy at 6.30 am Great Compline ...
Iulian Dumitrascu - Basilica News Agency - 12/4/17 The Feast of the Resurrection of the Lord, also known as Holy Pascha, presents us Christ’s victory over sin, hades and death. Holy Pascha is therefore the feast of eternal life, of eternal light and everlasting joy in the love of the Most Holy Trinity. That is why, during the Easter ...
DECR Communication Service - 1/5/16 Paschal Message of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow And All Russia to the Archpastors, Pastors, Deacons, Monks and Nuns and All the Faithful Children of the Russian Orthodox Church Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God (1 Jn 3:1) Your Graces the archpastors, all-honourable priests, God-loving monks ...
OCA- 27/4/16 To the Venerable Hierarchs, Reverend Clergy, Monastics, Distinguished Stewards, and the entire family of the Orthodox Church in America: CHRIST IS RISEN! INDEED HE IS RISEN! I greet you, my beloved brothers and sisters, with the great joy of the bright Feast of Christ’s Resurrection. Today we arise at the rising of the sun to “bring ...
SYOSSET, NY [OCA] - April 2015 To the Very Reverend and Reverend Clergy, Monastics, and Faithful of the Orthodox Church in America: It is the day of Resurrection! Let us be illumined, O ye people! Pascha! The Pascha of the Lord from death to life and from earth to heaven has Christ our God led us, as ...
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America Pastoral Message for Great and Holy Pascha April 12, 2015 Let the heavens rejoice and the earth be glad, as is meet; and let the whole world, visible and invisible, feast; for Christ hath risen to everlasting joy. (from the 1st Ode of the Paschal Canon) Christ is Risen! Truly, He ...
24/2/15 The doors of repentance are opening, Great Lent is beginning. Every year Great Lent is repeated, and each time it brings us great benefit if we spend it as we should. It is a preparation for the life to come and, more immediately, a preparation for the Bright Resurrection. Just as a stairway is built into ...
Orthodox Christianity in China - April -May 2014 English translation by Katherine Ilachinski Orthodox Ukrainians living in Beijing for the first time this year were able to celebrate the feast of Pascha on its territory - at the Ukrainian Embassy in the PRC. At the Paschal liturgy, which was conducted at night by parish cleric of Adrian and Natalia, priest ...
19/4/14 † BARTHOLOMEW By the mercy of God Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch to the plenitude of the Church Grace, Peace and Mercy from Christ risen in glory Christ is Risen! Come, brethren and children in the Lord, receive the light from the unwaning Light of the Phanar, the Holy Center of the Orthodox, and let us all ...
19/4/14 The Resurrection of Christ 2014 - Orthodox Church in America To the Venerable Pastors, God-loving Monastics and Devout Faithful of the Orthodox Church in America Dearly Beloved in the Lord: Christ is Risen! Together with those who came before the dawn with Mary, we have come to that first day of the week and have found the stone rolled away from the sepulcher. With astonishment, we ponder the question of ...
Prot. No. 404 Beloved children in the Lord, Once again, in a spirit of joy and peace, we address you with the delightful and hopeful greeting: "Christ is Risen!" The occurrences and events of our time may not seem to justify the exultation of our greeting. The natural destruction caused by seismic tremors and oceanic swells, together ...
By the Grace of GodArchbishop of Constantinople, New Rome And Ecumenical Patriarch To the Plenitude of the ChurchGrace, Peace and MercyBy the Savior Christ Risen in Glory Dearly beloved brothers and children in the Lord,Christ is Risen! In sullenness, one day in the 19th century, humankind heard from the lips of the tragic philosopher: "God ...
SYOSSET, NY [OCA Communications/Antiochian Archdiocese Department of Internet Ministry] – www.FeastofFeasts.org a web site celebrating Holy Pascha, the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is now live.Co-sponsored by the Orthodox Church in America and the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, the site includes current materials from the two Churches' respective web sites and print ...