The Entry of the Holy Theotokos into the Temple is one of the twelve major church feasts and is numbered among those that affect our salvation. What takes place on this day? The three-year-old Child, ...

On Friday, many Orthodox Christians celebrated the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos. The Russian Orthodox Church doesn’t celebrate this feast until later this month, but I thought I’d ...

All Saints Orthodox Church in Olyphant celebrated the second day of Christmas in honor of the Theotokos on Dec. 26.

The grave and death could not hold the Theotokos, who is sleepless in her intercessions and an unfailing hope in her mediations. For as the Mother of Life she was translated unto life by Him Who ...

April 16 is the feast day of St. Bernadette. In 2008 we celebrate the 150th ... already in the seventh century in Palestine as the Conception by St. Anne of the Theotokos (Mother of God) on December 9 ...

Under the title: The Conception of St. Anne [when she conceived the Theotokos], this feast was celebrated ... On February 2, the fortieth day after Christmas, Christians celebrate the 'Feast of the ...

After “God is the Lord” (the beginning of Matins after the Six Psalms) the troparion of the day is sung in the ... we Thy servants dedicate a feast of victory and of thanksgiving, as ones rescued out ...