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Feasts
Pascha, 2022
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Nativity, 2022
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Pascha, 2021
Icon of the Resurrection.
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Candlemas, 2021
Icon of the Meeting of the Lord, Andrei Rublev, 1405.
Cathedral of the Annunciation, Moscow.
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Nativity, 2021
The Adoration of the Magi.
Fresco from a cave church in Cappadocia, 12th century.
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Pascha, 2020
Icon of the Harrowing of Hell.
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Metr. Hilarion (Alfeyev), “The Spiritual World of St. Isaac of Syria” (2002)
Metr. Hilarion, indirectly describing himself (273)
Today, February 10th (January 28th according to the Julian calendar), the Orthodox Church celebrates the memory of St. Isaac of Syria, a revered ascetic writer and philosopher from the 7th century. In all of this time, his writings have only grown in stature, serving as a spiritual manual for generations of priests, monks and laymen — an unlikely journey for the legendary Middle Eastern recluse, who valued his solitude so much that he fled to the desert after being offered a bishopric, and who certainly never imagined that world in distant 2020 where, improbably, there is still a grateful audience for him. Continue reading
Nativity, 2020
The Bethlehem Icon of the Mother of God,
also known as the “Smiling Theotokos.”
Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem.
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Pascha, 2019
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