Metropolitan Tikhon of All America and Canada
But beyond the historical and the spiritual levels, Christ offers these parables as doorways by which we might enter into the sacred reality of Holy Week, that is, to enter into the Glory of the Kingdom by sharing in the Passion of Christ.
It perhaps may sound quite odd to our Orthodox Christian ears if on the Saturday of Lazarus, we were to greet each other with the words: “Lazarus is risen! Truly he is risen!” Naturally, no liturgical prescription or precedent exists for this.
Priest Leonid Kudryachov
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The verse is brief, but it should be read slowly. Just two words, but each one is precious.
St. Macarius the Great
Homily 25 marks the final installation of the Fifty Homilies of St. Macarius the Great for this Great Lent of 2015. We wish all our readers a blessed Holy Week.
The state of Christians is like merchandise, and like leaven. As merchants amass earthly gains, so Christians gather together their thoughts that were scattered about the world. As leaven turns the whole lump into leaven, so the leaven of sin permeates the whole race of Adam; but Christ puts a heavenly leaven of goodness in faithful souls.