On major feast days, they would have an extended service of readings (scriptural, patristic, and from lives of the saints) in addition to chanting the psalms. This all would be done in the dark ...

I sing the praise of each friend of my Lord, If any would, let them now list them all. Icon of All Saints. Our most godlike Fathers decreed that we should celebrate the present feast after the descent ...

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The oldest document in which we find the length and exercises of Advent mentioned with anything like clearness, is a passage in the second book ... saints of the old Law. They give the name of ...

The authors of a new book profiling 16 holy men and women who championed civil and human rights want readers to know: You can ...

The Patriarch mounted the ambo (pulpit) and lifted the Cross with both hands so that all of ... Lives of the Saints of the Orthodox Church, Vol. 1, by Hieromonk Makarios of Simonos Petra (Ormylia: ...

The English idiom euphemistically expressed as “He doesn’t know his ears from his elbow” has a counterpart in Spanish: ...

This is an instructive description of the author of The Feast of the Goat (La fiesta del Chivo, 2000), a realist novel depicting historical events: the assassination in 1961 of the dictator Rafael ...

All Saints Day was originally called Feast of All Holy Martyrs and was celebrated on May 13. But in 837AD, Pope Gregory IV changed the name to Feast of All Saints and its date to November 1.

But it was not until 70 years ago that Pope Pius XII officially added this feast to the liturgical ... exalted above all choirs of angels and saints, and standing at the right hand of her only ...

Most reverend brother Hierarchs and beloved children in the Lord, Thirty-five whole years have lapsed since the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate established September 1st, the ...