What is Orthodox Christianity?
A good place to start is to understand ‘what Orthodox Christians do and believe’. Worship God, the Holy Trinity, every Sunday and throughout our daily lives? Of course, . . . the world got its concept of ‘Sunday Services’ from us. Bible-based? Absolutely, . . . we gave the world the Bible it uses, and […]
From Pascha to Pentecost
Antipascha The Sunday after Easter, called the Second Sunday, is thus the eighth day of the paschal celebration, the last day of Bright Week. It is therefore called the Antipascha, and it was only on this day in the early church that the newly-baptized Christians removed their robes and entered once again into the life […]
Join Us for Holy Week & PASCHA (Easter)
This week Lent comes to an end and we turn to the work of Salvation our Lord performed in the Raising Lazarus from the Dead. Then is His Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem, on what has been named “Palm Sunday”. Thus the Orthodox Church begins the celebration of the last week of Christ’s life; officially called […]
Homily on Fasting from St. John Chrysostom
Homily On Fastingby St. John Chrysostom Fasting is a medicine. But medicine, as beneficial as it is, becomes useless because of the inexperience of the user. He has to know the appropriate time that the medicine should be taken and the right amount of medicine and the condition of the body which is to take […]
Why Fast?
Our Lord began his ministry with a fast, and addressed fasting not with an indifference of saying “if you fast”; rather teaching his disciples with the words “when you fast . . . ” Matthew 6:16-18 16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that […]