إعداد/ أسرة المحبةمبارك أنت أيها المسيح إلهنايا من أظهرت الصيادين غزيري الحكمة،إذ سكبت عليهم الروح القدس.وبهم المسكونة اقتنصت يا محب البشر المجد لك”http://www.almahaba.org/“إنما قال هذا عن الروح”معنى العيدفي البدء كان هذا العيد عند العبرانيين عيداً أرضياً – زراعياً، عيد الحصاد، “عيد حصاد بواكير غلاتك التي تزرعها وعيد الاستغلال عند نهاية السنة عندما تجمع غلاتك” (خروج [...]
For the first fourteen days of August during each year, the Holy Orthodox Church enters into a strict fast period in honor of the Mother of God, the Virgin Mary. The eminent Orthodox theologian, Father Sergei Bulgakov, beautifully expresses the high regard which the Orthodox Christians have for the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of [...]
( صوم السيدة )صوم السيدة العذراء هو من الاصوام المهمة والمحبوبة لدى فئة كبيرة من المسيحيين الممارسين مسيحيتهم ويكاد يقال أن الشعب المؤمن هو الذي وضعه وفرضه على روزنامة الكنيسة لانه حتى القرن الحادي عشر لم يكن ضمن الاصوام المعمول بها بحكم القانون الكنسي ، كما لا نجده في أي قانون من قوانين الصوم وكان [...]
BOOK IV CHAPTER IXSt. John of Damascus – Concerning Faith and BaptismWe confess one baptism for the remission of sins and for life eternal. For baptism declares the Lord’s death. We are indeed “buried with the Lord through baptism,” as saith the divine Apostle. So then, as our Lord died once for all, we also [...]
Protopresbyter Alexander SchmemannThe Nativity Cycle As Orthodox Christians, we begin the celebration of the Nativity of Christ — on December 25 — with a time of preparation. Forty days before the feast of the birth of Our Lord we enter the period of the Christmas Fast: to purify both soul and body to enter properly [...]
As we enter into the Nativity Fast for the next forty days we will enter into the arena of struggle in anticipation of our Savior's birth. We will seek to disengage ourselves from our attachment to all earthly things so that we might receive Him who comes. We will seek to awaken within ourselves a [...]
by Fr. Andrew George, edited for Orthodox Family Life by Phyllis Meshel Onest The Advent Season, which began for us on November 15/28, is a time for anticipating the "Good News" of the Lord's Birth. As with all things in life, Scripture reminds us that we must be careful of being "in the world, but not of [...]
Kathryn WehrA few months ago I witnessed my first “Churching” – a liturgy said for a new mother when she returns to church, usually 40 days after the birth of her child. Often it is done just before the child’s baptism. The mother waited with her infant daughter at the back door of the church, [...]