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Wednesday, April 12/25, 2018. 3rd Week after Pascha. Fast Day.

Fish, wine and oil allowed.

St. Basil the Confessor, bishop of Parium (754).

Hieromartyr Zeno, bishop of Verona (ca. 260). St. Isaac the Syrian, abbot, of Spoleto, Italy (550). Monk-martyrs Menas, David, and John, of Palestine (после 636). Virgin Anthusa of Constantinople (801). St. Athanasia the Wonderworker, abbess, of Aegina (860).

Deposition of the Cincture [Sash] of the Most Holy Theotokos in Constantinople (942).

St. Sergius II, patriarch of Constantinople (1019). St. Basil, bishop of Ryazan (1295). St. Acacius of Kapsokalyvia Skete, Mt. Athos (1730). Martyr Sabbas the Goth, at Buzau in Wallachia (372).

Repose of Archbishop Juvenal of Vilnius, Lithuania, monk of Optina Monastery (1904).

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Christ is Risen!

“Take Them In for Heaven’s Sake!”

“Take Them In for Heaven’s Sake!” Lolita Naranovich “Take Them In for Heaven’s Sake!” The Pokrov Orthodox children’s home—a place where miracles have become an everyday reality Lolita Naranovich Fr. Vitaly baptizes and integrates children into Church life, and Ekaterina teaches and comforts them. And the adolescents who once lived in an atmosphere of debauchery, brawls and rowdiness now sing with shining faces in the church choir, and never forget to pray before eating.

The Empty Tomb(s)

The Empty Tomb(s) Fr. Ted Bobosh The Empty Tomb(s) Fr. Ted Bobosh We have to make our churches full of God’s grace by becoming a living temple because we each are alive in Christ. Then people will not come to the church looking for the corpse of Christ, but to receive His resurrected Body.

Ask What You Want of God!

Ask What You Want of God! Priest Yaroslav Dragun Ask What You Want of God! On the path to the priesthood and the school of humility Priest Yaroslav Dragun “Don’t worry,” his confessor comforted him. “Do this: at your ordination, when the bishop places his hand on your head with the prayer invoking the Holy Spirit—at that moment ask God for everything you want that is spiritual and beneficial; and believe that it will all come true. Don’t doubt it".

Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women

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The Most Important Miracle in Fr. Simon’s Life

Olga Rozhneva, Priest Simon Kiknavelidze

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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The Most Important Miracle in Fr. Simon’s Life

Olga Rozhneva, Priest Simon Kiknavelidze

If we choose the way of salvation, then the Lord will protect us in everything along the way. We must walk to our goal by small, sober steps, and our goal is Christ. The Lord is waiting for us!

On the Shattering of Human Hopes

Sermon on the Third Sunday of Pascha, the Myrrh-bearing Women

Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Egorievsk

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Rating: 9,3|Votes: 24

On the Shattering of Human Hopes

Sermon on the Third Sunday of Pascha, the Myrrh-bearing Women

Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Egorievsk

Our boldest hopes and dreams about human happiness, about our own selves, about our close ones, and about the future are all at best naiveté in comparison with what the Lord has prepared for us.

“Orthodoxy in Estonia Began With Yaroslav the Wise”

A 2003 Conversation with the Newly-Reposed Metropolitan Cornelius of Tallinn and All Estonia

Metropolitan Cornelius of Tallinn and All Estonia

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Orthodoxy Around the World

Rating: 9,7|Votes: 7

“Orthodoxy in Estonia Began With Yaroslav the Wise”

A 2003 Conversation with the Newly-Reposed Metropolitan Cornelius of Tallinn and All Estonia

Metropolitan Cornelius of Tallinn and All Estonia

This interview was recorded in 2003 by brothers of Sretensky Monastery who had visited Metropolitan Cornelius at his Estonian residence at Pukhtitsa Monastery, asking the now-reposed archpastor about the USSR and the years of persecution, independent Estonia, the schism in Estonian Orthodoxy, and the daily lives of Estonians.

The Faith, Hope, and Love of a Paralympic Champion

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Marriage and Family

Rating: 10|Votes: 11

The Faith, Hope, and Love of a Paralympic Champion

The Paralympic champion Xenia Ryabova who has been on a wheelchair since her birth speaks about faith, hope, and love in her life.

Memorial Days at the Destroyed Iveron Monastery

Photo Report

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Suffering Church

Rating: 8,7|Votes: 15

Memorial Days at the Destroyed Iveron Monastery

Photo Report

After the start of the war in Donbass in 2014, the Iveron Convent in Donetsk was severely damaged by Ukrainian troops, finding itself in the epicenter of the attacks because it is near the airport for which there were fierce battles.

The Light in the Tunnel

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Rating: 6|Votes: 7

The Light in the Tunnel

But to get to the Light, as we realize liturgically in the Church, we must pass through this painful and most narrow passage – the Gospel.

“The Lord Sends Us Where Our Help Is Needed”

A disabled woman’s monologue

Lolita Naranovich, Xenia Ryabova

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Marriage and Family

Rating: 10|Votes: 15

“The Lord Sends Us Where Our Help Is Needed”

A disabled woman’s monologue

Lolita Naranovich, Xenia Ryabova

This priest said that people like us come to this world so that others could become purer through supporting us, so that they could become more merciful, kinder and better. We help people and the society become more human.

Pascha in Our Lives

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Rating: 9,6|Votes: 5

Pascha in Our Lives

Which Paschal festivities or services have particularly remained in your memory, and what does Pascha mean to you? We posed these questions to Orthodox clergymen and other believers.

Participants in the Eternal Pascha

The Memory of the Optina Brothers Killed on Pascha in 1993

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Rating: 9,9|Votes: 17

Participants in the Eternal Pascha

The Memory of the Optina Brothers Killed on Pascha in 1993

They were God’s chosen ones. To die for Christ is an honor that must be earned.

“No one can take our Paschal joy from us”

A report from the Western Ukrainian village of Ptichie, where an Orthodox parish has been struggling for four years for the right to serve in their own church

Archpriest Grigory Stadnik

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Suffering Church

Rating: 9,7|Votes: 7

“No one can take our Paschal joy from us”

A report from the Western Ukrainian village of Ptichie, where an Orthodox parish has been struggling for four years for the right to serve in their own church

Archpriest Grigory Stadnik

The faithful of this village have become a certain symbol of confession of the faith in Ukraine.

On the Importance of Faith in the Afterlife

A Homily on Radonitsa

Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov)

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Rating: 9,9|Votes: 13

On the Importance of Faith in the Afterlife

A Homily on Radonitsa

Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov)

Beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, one of the main questions, having great importance for each and every one of us, is the question of the afterlife.

“Give me a word” and the Problem of Procrastination

Hieromonk Alexis (Trader)

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Rating: 9,7|Votes: 17

“Give me a word” and the Problem of Procrastination

Hieromonk Alexis (Trader)

The verbalization of desired outcomes as well as the steps necessary to make them happen are a necessary part of fighting the negative thoughts that tempt one to procrastinate.

The Resurrection of Christ—A Personal Matter for All of Us

Patriarch Alexei II of Moscow and All Russia

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Rating: 9,7|Votes: 9

The Resurrection of Christ—A Personal Matter for All of Us

Patriarch Alexei II of Moscow and All Russia

I am sure that such feelings and experiences are shared by a great many believers. Year after year, spiritually accompanying the Myrrh-bearing Women, we successively experience fear, astonishment, and awe at the view of the stone miraculously rolled away from the entrance to the Savior’s tomb by an invisible power.

Belief and Unbelief

Homily on Thomas Sunday

St. Luke, Archbishop of Crimea

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Rating: 9,9|Votes: 21

Belief and Unbelief

Homily on Thomas Sunday

St. Luke, Archbishop of Crimea

It was very, very, extremely hard for the apostles to believe that the Lord Jesus Christ had risen.

How do we know that Jesus rose from the dead?

The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. John (20:19-31)

Fr. James Guirguis

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Rating: 9,9|Votes: 12

How do we know that Jesus rose from the dead?

The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. John (20:19-31)

Fr. James Guirguis

Why do we celebrate this for 40 days? Because the Church is showing us that this is our reality. The resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ changed the whole world and it was an answer to the tragedy and suffering of the innocent One who went to the cross for our sakes.

Easter is when life vanquishes death

Fr. Barnabas Powell

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Rating: 9,7|Votes: 7

Easter is when life vanquishes death

Fr. Barnabas Powell

As we leave, the sun's first rays and singing of the birds will proclaim it, too -- that Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life.

Two Paschal Celebrations in Prison

Vitaly Chekhranov

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Rating: 10|Votes: 10

Two Paschal Celebrations in Prison

Vitaly Chekhranov

This was the most difficult Pascha of the four that I had celebrated during my imprisonment from 1923 to 1926.

St. Anastasia of Kiev

The Saint Who Laid the Foundation of an Athonite Church

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Rating: 9,9|Votes: 18

St. Anastasia of Kiev

The Saint Who Laid the Foundation of an Athonite Church

Despite the centuries-old ban on women being on the Holy Mountain, this saint was directly related to the laying of the first stone on the Holy Mountain in 1881 in the foundation of the cathedral of St. Elijah Skete, founded in 1757 by St. Paisius Velichkovsky.

Xenia Ryabova. A Modern “Story of a Real Human Being”

Lolita Naranovich, Xenia Ryabova

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Orthodoxy Today

Rating: 9,7|Votes: 6

Xenia Ryabova. A Modern “Story of a Real Human Being”

Lolita Naranovich, Xenia Ryabova

Xenia Ryabova, five times Paralympic dressage champion, was born with cerebral palsy. Xenia has told me the story of her life which, in my opinion, can be regarded as a modern equivalent of “the story of a real man”.

An Orphan’s Pascha in Old Beijing

From the diary of a Chinese Orthodox Christian

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Rating: 9,9|Votes: 17

An Orphan’s Pascha in Old Beijing

From the diary of a Chinese Orthodox Christian

One of the most vivid recollections of my childhood was Pascha, the celebration of which always gave me ineffable joy and unforgettable moments.

The Fulfilment of Russian Pascha—the New Martyrs and Us

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The Fulfilment of Russian Pascha—the New Martyrs and Us

Pascha is a time of miracles. Pascha itself is the most important miracle in the history of mankind. Schema-Hieromonk Valentin (Gurevich), father-confessor of Donskoy Monastery in Moscow, speaks about the New Martyrs (who were killed but rose from the dead with Christ and have been raising their descendants and the life in modern Russia from the dead from generation to generation) and the spirit of Pascha with which the life of the Church of Christ is filled.

A Pascha of Beauty – In a Soviet Prison – 1928

Fr. Stephen Freeman

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Church History

Rating: 9,9|Votes: 20

A Pascha of Beauty – In a Soviet Prison – 1928

Fr. Stephen Freeman

This letter should become a classic of Orthodox writing and witness to the faith that sustained so many and is today being resurrected in so many places. The triumph of the Resurrection so transcends his prison cell it’s a wonder that the walls remained.

God is closer than we think

Priest Roman Savchuk

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Rating: 9,6|Votes: 34

God is closer than we think

Priest Roman Savchuk

This story of a woman stricken by family problems shook me to the core.

Pascha in Sretensky Monastery

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Pascha in Sretensky Monastery

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Paschal Message of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine

Metropolitan Onuphry (Berezovsky)

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Paschal Message of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine

Metropolitan Onuphry (Berezovsky)

God created us by His love to be partakers of His Divinity, to drink from Him forever as from a sacred spring, the Divine water of life. And blessed is the man who diligently preserves himself from sins, who courageously conquers himself with the word of Divine love, for such a man purifies his soul, he frees himself from the spiritual filth which humiliates him and deprives him of the ability to enjoy such a sacred gift as happiness.