“The Standing of St. Mary of Egypt” (Thursday of the Great Canon “>Thursday of the Great Canon in the Typikon) is the name of Thursday’s Matins service of the Fifth Week of Great Lent (typically served, however, on Wednesday evening). During this Matins service, the The Great Canon of Repentance by St. Andrew, Bishop…
Mt. Athos, April 1, 2025 Photo: gohalkidiki.com The holy monasteries of Mt. Athos have joined the chorus of those condemning the blasphemous display at the Greek National Gallery in Athens. An exhibition entitled The Allure of the Bizarre, which features several blasphemous works opened on January 22 and is set to run through September…
New York, April 1, 2025 Though defrocked by ROCOR, Belya still acts as a priest within GOARCH’s Slavic Vicariate. Photo: Slavonic.org U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian has dismissed a lawsuit brought by defrocked archimandrite Alexander Belya against senior clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. The case, which dates back to 2019,…
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (April 1, 1809–February 21, 1852). Artist V. Savenkov. Oil on canvas. Reproduction/RIA “Novosti” Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol was published on December 31, 1846. The author of this truly Christian book was a deeply religious man, a religious thinker and a publicist who authored several prayers….
Jerusalem, April 1, 2025 Photo: spc.rs His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije of Serbia arrived in the Holy Land yesterday morning for a pilgrimage to the many holy sites there. The Serbian primate and his entourage were hosted at the Jerusalem Patriarch by His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos and other local hierarchs, reports the Serbian Orthodox Church….
