If any be devout and love God, let them enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast. If any be wise servants, let them rejoicing enter into the joy of their Lord. If any have laboured long in fasting, let them now receive their recompense.

If any have wrought from the first hour, let them today receive their just reward.

If any have come at the third hour, let them with thankfulness keep the feast.

If any have arrived at the sixth hour, let them have no misgivings, because they shall in nowise be deprived therefor.

If any have delayed until the ninth hour, let them draw near, fearing nothing.

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Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life!

He has set before us the joyous path to follow Him in the resurrection to eternal life when He said: Read More

Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of All Georgia

Georgians are counting down to what may be the most troubled Easter in the 1,700 years since the country adopted Christianity.

As cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 continue to climb, churches are preparing for an influx on Easter Sunday, which falls on April 19 in the Eastern Orthodox world this year. Despite a state of emergency that is supposed to keep everyone at home, the powerful Georgian Church refuses to cancel services and the government refuses to extend otherwise stringent measures to the Church.

Believers are caught between church and state, faith and science. Read More

During the COVID-19 pandemic, homeless people are more at risk than ever of having nothing to eat.

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100% of funds collected is distributed regularly to the homeless on the streets of downtown Toronto.

Since the beginning of Great Lent we have collected and disbursed about $1800 from our readers for this purpose.

Philippians 4:4-9 ~ John 12:1-18

In the Letter to the Philippians, St. Paul sets the theme for Palm Sunday: “Rejoice in the Lord always! . . . The Lord is near.”

This weekend is a time of rejoicing, whatever circumstances we find ourselves in. The forty days of Great Lent are past; the days of the Lord’s Passion are yet to come. And the most joyful feast of all, our Pascha, the holy and glorious Resurrection of the Lord from the dead, is still a week away. Read More