Orthodox Gladness

On this third Sunday, we are powerfully reminded of a complemantary truth: no one is so patient and so merciful as God, but even He does not...

Having completed the forty days that bring profit to our soul, we beseech Thee in Thy love for man: Grant us also to behold the Holy Wee...

O twelve apostles, Peter, Paul, Jame and John, Andrew, Bartholomew, Philip, Thomas and Matthew, James with Simon and Jude, pray to Ch...

Save us, most holy Virgin from all the threats and wickedness of men. For to thee, and to thy Son and our God, we flee for refuge, Mothe...

Now the light of the true faith shines upon us all, dispersing the dark cloud of error of ungodliness, and illumining the hearts of t...

Giving wings to our soul through abstinence, let us all offer acceptable prayers to our Lord. in heaven. (Triodion)

Adam was driven out of Paradise, because in disobedience he had eaten food; but Moses was granted the vision of God, because he had c...

Adam was cast out from the delight of Paradise: bitter was his eating, when in uncontrolled desire he broke the commandment of the Ma...

Forgiveness of insults is the shortest and most reliable way to salvation ... In everyday life there are any number of clashes, reaso...

Principalities and dominions, cherubim and all the powers of heaven, pray that we may spend the season of the Fast in repentance and ...

O Holy Cross, raise up the horn of the Churches; by thy power cast down the arrogance of herectics and make glad the congregations of...

The Lord of old foreshadowed the miracle of the Virgin to Moses in the bush upon Mt. Sinai; let us praise, bless and exalt Him above all...

Accepting the Fast as a gift, let us glorify the Giver who established it for our salvation. With all our strength let us observe it ...

The last of the preparatory Sundays has two themes: it commemorates Adam's expulsion from Paradise, and it is also the Sunday of ...

O Virgin worthy of all praise, be to us a path of repentance, leading us to the gates of salvation. (Theotokion)

My way of life is shameful and bitter, O Savior who lovest mankind, but Thy mercy and compassion are without measure. With love I sin...

On the day before the Sunday of the Last Judgement, there is a universal commemoration of the dead "from all the ages". Befor...

Maslenitsa (Russian: Мaсленица, Ukrainian: Масниця, Belarusian: Масьленіца; also known as Butter Week, Crepe week, or Cheesefair Week...

Saturday is the day which the Church has set aside for the commemoration of Orthodox Christians departed this life in the ...

This parable of God’s forgiveness calls us to “come to ourselves” as did the prodigal son, to see ourselves as being “in a far countr...