Kiev, January 20, 2025 Photo: YouTube All of creation is fallen and defiled by sin, thus all of creation requires cleansing, which requires repentance, the Ukrainian primate said in his homily on the eve of Theophany. The great prophet St. John the Baptist preached repentance and thereby prepared the people to receive the Messiah….
Moscow, January 20, 2025 Photo: voznessobor.ru His Grace Bishop Viktor (Pyankov), a retired hierarch of the Moscow Patriarchate, reposed in the Lord on Friday, January 17. Over the years of his ordained ministry, he served in Russia, Latvia, and Estonia. Bp. Viktor, 80, was consecrated as a hierarch in 1990 and retired from active…
Photo: bigenc.ru Dear brothers and sisters, today we celebrate the second day of the most solemn feast of the Theophany “>Theophany of the Lord. This day is called the Synaxis of the Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John, because the first Christians would gather in church on the day after the feast of Theophany…
The Baptism of The Lord The Lord came to the Jordan and was baptized of John not because he was in need of that cleansing, but so that He might fulfill all that was attributable to human nature, which He had assumed, and to show that He had a true body and that he…
Photo: mitropolia74.ru “Today the nature of the waters is sanctified…” The water was sanctified by the immersion of Jesus Christ, the voice of the Father, and the descent of the Holy Spirit. This sanctification takes place during Baptism in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Water acquires a…
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit! Today we have entered the feast of the Lord’s Baptism, or as it is called in Church lexicon, Theophany. Where did this name come from? When the Lord entered as a man into the waters of the Jordan, being baptized of John,…
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit! Dear fathers, brothers and sisters! Today is a special service called The Eve of Theophany. This service is very similar to the one we celebrated on Christmas Eve—it begins with the Royal Hours and continues with the Vespers and…
In the hustle and bustle of everyday life, when time flies at the speed of light and life looks like an obstacle course, you sometimes are dying to simply drop everything and listen to what your heart tells you. To close your eyes, to feel the silence that envelops us from all sides, and…
Mexico City, January 16, 2025 Photo: oca.org The primate of the Orthodox Church in America paid a pastoral visit to the Diocese of Mexico over the weekend. It has become customary for His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon of Washington and All America and Canada to visit the diocese following the feast of the Theophany, the…
Moscow, January 17, 2025 Photo: ibt.org.ru The Institute for Bible Translation, dedicated to translating Holy Scripture into the languages of the non-Slavic peoples living in Russia, continues its blessed work with a translation of the Pentateuch in the Karachay-Balkar language. The new edition is the result of many years of work “and a careful approach…
