Patriarchal Encyclical for Pascha 2016
Glory be to Him who bestows life, who has shown the light and love and peace to the world as well as to each one of us. Glory to Jesus Christ, the king of glory, the conqueror of death and champion of life.
Holy Week: The meaning of each day
Let’s explore the meaning of each of the solemn days of Passion Week.
Excerpts from the Homily on the Samaritan Woman by Saint John Chrysostom
Today, Christ desires to proclaim the struggles of the Samaritan woman, and we must, with this poor word, sail the sea of her feats.
How does Christ’s Resurrection take place within us?
Let us therefore give thanks to the Lord, Who has helped us chart the sea of the fast and has brought us, full of joy, to the haven of His Resurrection.
Saint Gregory the Dialogist on the Mystery of the Resurrection
It has been my custom, beloved brethren, to speak to you on many of the Gospel readings, by means of a sermon I had already dictated for you.
Holy Pascha 2015 in Hong Kong
Holy Pascha 2015 at Saint Luke Orthodox Cathedral in Hong Kong. Christ is Risen!
“Go and make disciples of all Nations”
Holy Pascha 2015 at Saint Luke Orthodox Cathedral in Hong Kong. Christ is Risen!
Pascha 2014 in Hong Kong
The celebration of the Liturgy of Pascha in Hong Kong.
Patriarchal Encyclical for Holy Pascha 2014
The emotional state of the Lord’s disciples was grim after His Crucifixion, because by the Lord’s death on the Cross the hopes of His disciples were dispersed that He and they would one day prevail as political power. They had perceived the triumphant entrance of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem, following the resurrection of Lazarus and the miraculous feeding of five thousand men, with additional women and children, by five loaves of bread and two fish, as a prelude of their conquering of secular authority. The mother of two of them moreover requested that her two sons sit by each side of the Lord, when He came to power. All these, however, dissipated as childish imaginations on account of the awful execution of Jesus Christ.
Homily on the Sunday of the Myrrhbearers by Saint Gregory Palamas
The resurrection of the Lord is the regeneration of human nature. It is the resuscitation and re-creation of the first Adam, whom sin led to death, and who because of death, again was made to retrace his steps on the earth from which he was made. The resurrection is the return to immortal life. Whereas no one saw that first man when he was created and given life—because no man existed yet at that time—woman was the first person to see him after he had received the breath of life by divine inbreathing.
