Hieromonk Job (Gumerov), Fr. Michael Carney, Archimandrite Ephrem (Lash)
Rating: 3,5|Votes: 24
As the hymn progresses, various individuals and groups encounter Christ and His Mother. Each has his own need; each his own desire or expectation, and each finds his or her own particular spiritual need satisfied and fulfilled in Our Lord and in the Mother of God. So too, each generation of Orthodox, and each particular person who has prayed the Akathist, has found in this hymn an inspired means of expressing gratitude and praise to the Mother of God for what she has accomplished for their salvation.
Rating: 8,3|Votes: 3
This is a recording of the Matins service with the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete, served in Sretensky Monastery, Moscow, during the fifth week of Great Lent, 2013. The service is sung by the Sretensky Monastery Choir.
Rating: 7,8|Votes: 8
Where shall I begin to weep for the actions of my wretched life? What first-fruit shall I offer, O Christ, in this my lamentation? But in Thy compassion grant me forgiveness of sins.
Gabe Martini
If literature and film that extols revenge is typical of our culture, most of us would have spent those six years plotting our own acts of vengeance against the Irish. But St. Patrick shows us a better way.
Fr. Seraphim Holland
Christianity is very simple. We complicate it because we want to complicate it. Because then we sort of have a smoke screen around us. It’s hard to be brutally honest with ourselves. Christianity is brutal honesty with ourselves and with others.