Jerusalem, April 20, 2025 theguardian.com The Holy Fire has descended in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, as seen on the channel One Day. The Holy Light descended at about 2:36 PM. It appeared in the edicule (the small chapel built over the burial place of Christ) about five mintues after the…
Chișinău, April 19, 2025 spzh.live Moldovan authorities blocked a hierarch of the Moldovan Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate from flying to Jerusalem to retrieve the Holy Fire. “I still don’t understand why I wasn’t released to Israel,” His Eminence Archbishop Marchel of Bălți and Fălești told First in Moldova News. The hierarch was…
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit! Holy and Great SaturdayOf all the days the Holy and Great Forty Day Fast is the most distinguished, but more than the Holy Forty Day Fast the Holy and Great Passion Week is exalted, and more than the days…
Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov) In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit! Today we are commemorating in a special way the Holy Week in Hymns. Great and Holy Thursday. The Last Supper (with audio)This kind of Liturgy is reserved for the major feasts of the Lord, but on…
Photo: jerusalem-patriarchate.info On this day, His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem performed the Rite of the Washing of Feet by the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. A large platform was installed in the middle of the square, covered with carpets and decorated with flowers. A priest was reading the Gospel in Greek from…
