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May 4, 2024 · Version for print. 4 May 2024 year 09:00. Paschal Message by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to the archpastors, pastors, deacons, monks and nuns, and all the faithful children of the Russian Orthodox Church. Beloved in the Lord Your Graces the archpastors, all-honourable presbyters and deacons, God-loving monks and nuns ...
Apr 26, 2024 · Since the founding of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem in the 19th century, Russian Orthodox Christians have had the opportunity to come to the Holy Land and make pilgrimages, visit Russian churches and monasteries, pray at services decorated with our church hymns, and commune with the clergy and monastics.
May 3, 2024 · As the Gospel says, "but Jesus held His peace" (Matthew 26:63). Preaching in Galilee and Jerusalem "the Gospel of the Kingdom" (Matthew 4:23), which "is not of this world" (John 18:36), Christ did not speak out about the Roman occupation or the imprisonment and execution of His Forerunner.
May 5, 2024 · Sunday May 5 is Orthodox Easter, a date which falls more than a month after the more-widely recognised western Easter Sunday which is celebrated as a public holiday in Australia. In both churches ...
May 5, 2024 · Updated 2:40 AM PDT, May 5, 2024. MOSCOW (AP) — Worshippers including President Vladimir Putin packed Moscow’s landmark Christ the Savior Cathedral for a nighttime Easter service led by Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church and an outspoken supporter of the Kremlin.
May 5, 2024 · Though its authenticity is disputed by some, the “Holy Fire” or “Holy Light” refers to a fire of purported divine origin that ignites inside Jesus’ tomb while only the Greek Orthodox ...
May 15, 2024 · Kolstø’s current book treats two aspects of this relationship: Tolstoi’s attitude toward Orthodoxy (his life experience as an Orthodox Christian, his Examination of Dogmatic Theology [1880], his thinking about forms of Orthodox spiritual expression); and Orthodox reactions to Tolstoi, especially before and after his excommunication from ...
