Those who adhere to the worship in our Church are aware that the four Sundays, with which we prepare ourselves for the Great Lent, take their names from the Gospel passages we read in the Divine Liturgy. The Sunday of the Last Judgment, or this Sunday, draws its name from a reading taken by the ...
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Here, I made the acquaintance of Fr. Mark-Arsenios Wyatt. Our first meeting was on the feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos. The man is Canadian. He was raised ecclesiastically under Fr. Maximos Saikali who counseled him to study theology at St. John of Damascus Institute, in Balamand (Northern Lebanon). Besides studying, Fr. Mark was ...
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To this day, I have prayed here, in an expanse I am visiting, in three churches that are affiliated to our diocese in North America. It is such a precious tradition that we make a pilgrimage to the local saints in whatever city we happen to be in. I have been told about churches here ...
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Thirty-five years ago, one of the brethren priests in Mount Lebanon proposed to some priests in his neighborhood the idea of celebrating together the feasts of the patron saints of their parish churches. However, the idea did not materialize. Yesterday, here, in the city of Montreal, believers from the parishes of the city responded to ...
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Last Sunday, I visited the falls in the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario, whose water movement is unparalleled on earth. I will leave out the exhaustion of the long route from my son’s house to the place. We set off on Saturday morning. We spent the rest of our day in the city of Toronto. ...
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On the day of my travel, I invited the brethren to a meeting in Church. A number of them accepted. There were feasts of Saints, among whom was the Virgin Martyr Saint Seraphima of Antioch. I am not a racist. However, I believe that we are responsible today, more than ever before, for ending alienation ...
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Of the ecclesiastical feasts which we wrong ourselves by neglecting, as they had been neglected by those who participated in organizing holidays in our country, is the feast of the Lord's Ascension into Heaven. The thing, which many Christians miss, is that this feast, the feast of the Divine Ascension, is another aspect of Pascha. ...
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Today, Metropolitan Silouan Moussi hosted, in the beautiful village of “Al-Qusaybeh”, the meeting of the brethren members of the Orthodox Youth Movement in Mount Lebanon (MJO) on the feast of their local chapter. The meeting began with the Divine Liturgy, during which the beloved brother Tony Abdo was ordained a deacon. The brethren in the ...
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