On the eve of the Nativity of Christ, the Holy Church completes its preparations for the great feast. There are several Old Testament readings at the evening service. Here are some of them.
Several years of dedicated labor have finally culminated in the publication of the Polish Orthodox Church’s own translation of the complete New Testament.
Valentin Velchev
So far, none of the pillars of the modern physics—neither General Theory of Relativity, nor quantum mechanics, not even the string theory—have been able to explain the existence of space and time.
Jonathan Dunne
I wanted to give those Orthodox books that most moved me, that I most enjoyed, not because they’re the ones I felt obliged to read, but because they spoke to me as an ordinary Christian pilgrim.
“In this contemporary desert of our society, there’s a need, now more than ever, for the dew of the Holy Spirit, which is poured out on earth following the tearful prayer of man,” His Eminence writes in the foreword to the prayer book.
The program is open to Orthodox Christians, catechumens, inquirers, and anyone who wants to sign up.
The Endowment, named after the 19th-century Kosov Serb donor who helped students study in Belgrade and at the seminary in Prizren, Kosovo, held a competition from September 26 to October 25 to determine the most worthy and most needy students.
An LGBT program was launched in schools throughout Moldova this week, causing a great scandal in the country where 98% of the population identifies as Orthodox.
The building was provided two years ago by the government of the Republic of Bulgaria for the new general education school called, “St. Sedmochiselnitsi”, under the auspices of the Lovich diocese of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.
Dmitry Anokhin
Choir director Vladimir Gorbik shows how singers can express their prayers in one word, why a conductor should not spread his elbows wide apart, and where on the kliros to look for a balance between copying and one’s own interpretation
Anastasia Heers
From all around the country the most qualified and traditional of speakers graced this event.
Victor Alexandrov
The lack of mutual understanding among nations needs to be countered in a special manner, if only in the language of music.
Deacon Sergei Geruk
Priest Andrei Degterenko, the school’s principal, his wife Katerina, and some students talk about the foundation of the school, the organization of the educational process, and their everyday life.
Maria Minaeva
What makes us a reader isn’t the formal ability to put letters into words, but the ability to grasp what we read.
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
The holy ascetics, in returning to the blessed state in which Adam abode before his fall, no longer suffer any danger from the natural world.
Christians are strangers to everything in this world, but at the same time, they lovingly pray for everything around them—for the city and country where they live.
Sergei Komarov
The Biblical image of love is different. This love is tough, it’s honest, lively, fervent, sincere—such is the zealous love of God.
The honored guest had the opportunity to give a talk to the audience, which included other hierarchs of the Georgian Orthodox Church, and professors and students of various universities.
See how the Church reacts to persecutions. It doesn’t say: “Lord, make them to disintegrate, yea, and even more,” as in the Old Testament. Here they react in a truly Christian way.
The Bible is an extreme book in this regard. Here it says: Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under Heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. That is, it’s only through the Son that we can come to know the Father. This is a Biblical word.