On Fasting

AS WE ENTER THE SECOND WEEK OF GREAT LENT...The Church Fathers on fastingGreat Lent is the period that the Church has in her wisdom set aside for u...

Le grand carême

Le grand carême... Le cheminement vers PâquesLe Grand Carême débute le lundi 27 février 2017. Ceci est une période de strict jeûne dans l’Église Or...

Great Lent... The journey to Pascha

On Monday, February the 27th 2017, will begin the blessed period of Great Lent. This is a period of strict fast* in the Orthodox Chuch, thus prepar...

Dimanche du dernier jugement

Lorsque Tu viendras, Dieu, dans la gloire sur la terre et que trembleras l'univers un fleuve de feu emportera tout devant le Trône, les livres sero...

Sunday of the Last Judgment

I ponder that day and hour, when we all, naked and as convicts, will appear before the Judge we cannot bribe. Then a great trumpet will sound and t...

Les dimanches du Triode en préparation au Grand Carême

Durant les trois semaines avant le carême, la sainte église nous prépare en vue de repentir. Tout en nous enseignant les vertus d’humilité, du juge...

Sundays in preparation of Great Lent

During the three week pre-Lenten season the church prepares us for repentance. She urges us to prepare ourselves through gradual diet modification ...

A return to the new path

Repentance is the abandoning of all false paths that have been trodden by men’s feet, and men’s thoughts and desires, and a return to the new path:...

Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee

The Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee is the beginning of the Triodion period, which leads us to Great Lent and Pascha.The name for this Sund...

The Meeting of our Lord Jesus Christ

On the 2nd of February our holy church celebrates the feast of the Meeting of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ.When forty days prescribed by t...

The soul that loves God

The soul that loves God has its rest in God and in God alone. In all the paths that men walk in in the world, they do not attain peace until they d...

The Theophany of our Lord

The sixth of January is the feast of the Epiphany. Originally it was the one Christian feast of the “shining forth” of God to the world in the huma...