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The Journey Begins

For Orthodox Christians around the world, a journey has begun today. It is a spiritual journey that will eventually lead us all the way to the empty tomb of Jesus Christ. For the next 6 weeks we will journey through Great Lent and then we will experience Holy Week and the incredible Feast of Feasts: […]

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Restoring Dignity

During this Lenten season we as Orthodox Christians can choose either to be like the Pharisees of old and be comfortable in our self-righteousness, or we can be like Saint Moses of Ethiopia or St Mary of Egypt and be humble and lowly even as Christ was humble and lowly.  We cannot enter into the […]

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The Journey Toward Great Lent: The Sheep & the Goats from Matthew 25:31-46

Today, Eastern Orthodox Christians around the entire world all read the same Gospel reading concerning the Great Judgment from Matthew 25:31-46.  Each year we Orthodox come face to face with this Gospel passage, whether we want to or not.  It concerns the sheep and the goats; even more importantly it concerns who will inherit the Kingdom of […]

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The Journey Toward Great Lent: The Sheep & the Goats from Matthew 25:31-46

Today, Eastern Orthodox Christians around the entire world all read the same Gospel reading concerning the Great Judgment from Matthew 25:31-46.  Each year we Orthodox come face to face with this Gospel passage, whether we want to or not.  It concerns the sheep and the goats; even more importantly it concerns who will inherit the Kingdom of […]