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HIEROCONFESSOR THEODORE (RAFANOVICH) OF KHYMY by Vladimir Moss
HIEROCONFESSOR THEODORE (RAFANOVICH) OF KHYMY Archimandrite Theodore, in the world Theodore Andreyevich Rafanovich, was born in Belorussia in the village of Khanichi in Mogilev region. Once as a child he wandered into the rye and came across a wolf. Thinking…
Nun Afanasiya of Gomel (Belarus) Falls Asleep in the Lord – Great and Holy Friday of 2020
On Great and Holy Friday this year, the Nun Afanasiya of Gomel fell asleep in the Lord at 98 years of age. Mother Afanasiya (according to the world Anfisa) was married in her younger days to a devout man named…
The Joy of Christ’s Resurrection by St. Philaret of New York
The holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, speaking in his Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ’s last farewell talk with His disciples, cites the Saviour’s words: “Ye now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart shall…
We shall behold Christ
Let us purify our senses and we shall behold Christ, radiant with inaccessible light of the Resurrection, and shall hear Him saying clearly, “Rejoice!” As we sing the triumphant hymns!
It is the Day of Resurrection!
It is the Day of Resurrection! Let us be radiant, O people! Pascha! The Lord’s Pascha! For Christ our God has brought us from death to life, and from earth unto heaven, as we sing triumphant hymns!
St. John Chrysostom: Catechetical Paschal Homily
If anyone is devout and a lover of God, let him enjoy this beautiful and radiant festival. If anyone is a wise servant, let him, rejoicing, enter into the joy of his Lord. If anyone has wearied himself in fasting,…
St. John of Kronstadt: I was dead, and behold, I am alive . . . (Homily on Pascha)
“He says: I was dead, and behold, I am alive for, evermore, amen; and you also will be alive forever. This is the meaning of the words of Him Who arose: I am the first and the last; I am…
Paschal Encyclical of 1940 of St. John Maximovitch
Christ is Risen! Let us arise in the deep dawn,And instead of myrrh offer a hymn to the Lord. St. John MaximovitchWe forestall the rising of the sun, and hasten in the depth of night to meet the Sun of…
Paschal Encyclical 2020
Diocese of Pallini and Western Europe O death, where is thy sting? O Hades, where is thy victory? -Paschal Catechetical Homily of St. John Chrysostom From the day of the glorious Resurrection of Christ, our very vocabulary has changed. From…