Moscow, January 20, 2025 Photo: voznessobor.ru His Grace Bishop Viktor (Pyankov), a retired hierarch of the Moscow Patriarchate, reposed in the Lord on Friday, January 17. Over the years of his ordained ministry, he served in Russia, Latvia, and Estonia. Bp. Viktor, 80, was consecrated as a hierarch in 1990 and retired from active…
Photo: bigenc.ru Dear brothers and sisters, today we celebrate the second day of the most solemn feast of the Theophany “>Theophany of the Lord. This day is called the Synaxis of the Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John, because the first Christians would gather in church on the day after the feast of Theophany…
The Baptism of The Lord The Lord came to the Jordan and was baptized of John not because he was in need of that cleansing, but so that He might fulfill all that was attributable to human nature, which He had assumed, and to show that He had a true body and that he…
Photo: mitropolia74.ru “Today the nature of the waters is sanctified…” The water was sanctified by the immersion of Jesus Christ, the voice of the Father, and the descent of the Holy Spirit. This sanctification takes place during Baptism in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Water acquires a…
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit! Today we have entered the feast of the Lord’s Baptism, or as it is called in Church lexicon, Theophany. Where did this name come from? When the Lord entered as a man into the waters of the Jordan, being baptized of John,…
