Gabe Martini
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 10
Ultimately, then, the meaning of both the Nativity of Christ and the entirety of the 12 Days of Christmas is the receiving and giving of Christ, who is truly the gift and the giver, the one who is received and distributed.
Olga Rozhneva
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 29
My heart froze. I asked her myself how my son is. The doctor answered, “Mama, there must have been some mistake with your son. It can’t be explained any other way.
Fr. Lawrence Farley
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
I have watched it faithfully every year since I can remember, and have the whole wonderful thing more or less memorized by heart.
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
What does it mean to live in the Spirit? In what Spirit? Of course, as he was addressing a Christian community he meant the spirit of Christ, the spirit of the Gospel. If you live according to this spirit, if you call yourself a Christian, then you should also walk in it, behave according to the spirit. Then the apostle talks about what it means to walk in the spirit, and recounts the virtues that are connected with a life corresponding to the Christian spirit.
Rating: 7,5|Votes: 10
While most Christians celebrate the birth of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ on the 25th of December, few know why so many Orthodox Christians do not.