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Was Mary, the Mother of Jesus, the First Person to See the Risen Lord Outside the Empty Tomb?

by John Fotopoulos on April 20, 2020 | Views: 12029 | Readers' rating:

by John Fotopoulos | ελληνικά | Română | српски In Orthodox icons of Jesus’s empty tomb and resurrection, it is common to see Mary the mother of Jesus depicted as one of the myrrhbearing women. A related theme, although perhaps depicted less frequently in icons, is that the Virgin ... Read more.

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Some Common Misperceptions about the Date of Pascha/Easter

by John Fotopoulos on March 15, 2018 | Views: 14455 | Readers' rating:

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Women and the Creed: “For Us Humans and for Our Salvation”

by John Fotopoulos on June 19, 2017 | Views: 4222 | Readers' rating:

by John Fotopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou For a little more than a decade, a new translation of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed recited in the Divine Liturgy has been implemented in the parishes of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (GOA). The desire to use a uniform translation of th... Read more.

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Some Common Misperceptions about the Date of Pascha/Easter

by John Fotopoulos on April 2, 2017 | Views: 5214 | Readers' rating:

by John Fotopoulos There is a common misperception among Orthodox Christians that the reason why Orthodox Easter (i.e. Pascha) often occurs so much later than Western Christian Easter is because the Orthodox Church abides by the rules for calculating the date of Pascha issued by the 1st Ecumenical C... Read more.

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