Christ is Risen! The Easter sermon is given by His Grace Bishop Maxim of the Diocese of Western America of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Bishop Maxim (Vasiljevic) was elected Bishop of Los Angeles and the Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 2006. He graduated from the Faculty of Orthodox Theology, University of…
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Theology
The Resurrection Among Us: Commentary on the Gospel of John (20:19-20)
by Rev. Charalambos Livyos Papadopoulos | български | ქართული | Română | Русский | Српски This text was originally published in Greek on the blog of Volos Academy for Theological Studies, πολυμερώς και πολυτρόπως (“In Many and Various Ways”). Read the Greek original. After the Resurrection of Christ, we witness Him appearing eleven times to…
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Biblical Studies
Was Mary, the Mother of Jesus, the First Person to See the Risen Lord Outside the Empty Tomb?
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 Mary saw the risen Jesus outside…
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Christian Practice, Theology
The Presence of Christ in our Homes on Holy Week and Pascha
by Rev. Dr. Nicholas Denysenko | ελληνικά | Română | ру́сский When COVID-19 first arrived on the scene as a nuisance, and not a pandemic, the Churches responded by making slight alterations to the rite of receiving communion. Catholic and Protestant Churches instructed people to refrain from partaking of the cup, and the people exchanged…
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Christ is Risen!
Christ is risen from the dead, Trampling down death by death, And upon those in the tombs Bestowing life!
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Liturgical life
Some Common Misperceptions about the Date of Pascha/Easter
by John Fotopoulos | български | ქართული | Ελληνικά | Română | ру́сский | Српски This essay was originally published in 2017. It has been updated for 2021. A common misperception among Orthodox Christians is that Orthodox Easter (i.e. Pascha) often occurs so much later than Western Christian Easter because the Orthodox Church abides by…
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Christ is Risen!
Christ is risen from the dead, Trampling down death by death, And upon those in the tombs Bestowing life!
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Some Common Misperceptions about the Date of Pascha/Easter
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 Council at Nicaea in 325 AD and […]
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Some Common Misperceptions about the Date of Pascha/Easter
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 Council at Nicaea in 325 AD and…
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