Georgians have much to be proud of with David the Builder (დავით IV აღმაშენებელი). David Patrick Harry of Church of the Eternal Logos has a 2 1/2-hour discussion on the history of David and an overview of Georgian Christian history.
Category: Religion
The Church of Christ. By Fr Nikita Grigoriev. — True Orthodoxy
The Church is One. This is the first definition that the Church gave Herself in the Creed. One God, One Faith and One Church. In our current days for many people, this initial self-definition by the Church has become incomprehensible and even forgotten. The Church is one, but it has two parts: on earth its […]
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Pascha: Journey from Earth to Heaven — Fr. Ted’s Blog
For from death to life and from earth to heaven has Christ our God led us as we sing the song of victory: Christ is risen from the dead! (Hymn of Pascha) Great Lent is a spiritual journey. At the beginning of Lent, we began reading the Book of Genesis. We were expelled with Eve […]
Christ is risen and our hearts overflow with gratitude! — lessons from a monastery
CHRIST IS RISEN! This video is from our first Pascha in Greece (2008) at the Church of St. Anthony the Great in Thessaloniki. Fr. Theodore Zisis is the priest. This post is set to publish at midnight Newfoundland Time (at least it’s supposed to). Our little Holy Lady of Vladimir Mission, currently occupying a townhouse as a chapel […]
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Christ is Risen, Orthodox Paschal Troparion (English, Arabic, Greek)
For my fellow Orthodox Christians and Western Christians who celebrate with you, may you all have a blessed Paschal Feast. Christ is Risen!
Did Jesus Descend into Hell?
A video for Holy Saturday.
St Romanos: Prayer for the Meeting of the Lord — Fr. Ted’s Blog
St. Romanos the Melodist (6th Century) wrote countless hymns, poems and prayers, some of which are still in use in the liturgical services and feasts of the Orthodox Church to this day. Here is a prayer he composed as part of a longer hymn for the feast of the Meeting of the Lord in the […]
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Pyotr Ilych TCHAIKOVSKY : Hymn of the Cherubim by The USSR Ministry Of Culture Chamber Choir
Thanks to a combination of good genes, a pretty decent lifestyle, an iron will to keep pushing along no matter what challenges beset me, and good health (thanks be to God), I don’t plan on leaving this mortal coil for a long, long time but if I do, this would be the song I would request to be played at my funeral liturgy. Amen.
[Religion] A Brief History of Icons — Fr. Ted’s Blog
Thanks to Fr. Ted for this illuminating, if brief, history on icons as used by the Eastern Orthodox Church.
“Compared to metal and mosaic icons, the painted wooden icon is perhaps the longest lived subcategory of the Byzantine artistic medium of portable devotional icons. The earliest collection of wooden painted icons is found at St. Catherine Monastery in Sinai: some twenty-seven pieces dated to the sixth through seventh centuries. They are all painted in […]
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Orthodox Khans of Bulgaria, Mongols, Golden Horde, Tatars To Be Commemorated by Moscow Tatar Community
The Golden Horde and Orthodox Christianity make for strange bedfellows only because there is such a lack of research in this area.
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