🌹🌹🌹New item: Byzantine style icon of St. Demetrius.
One of each available. Both icons come with a bottle of myrrh from the Cathedral of St. Demetrius, Greece.
☦️Icon size 5.25 x 3.8 inches on wood
☦️Icon size 5.8 x 4.25 inches on wood
St Demetrius is regarded as a protector of the young, and is also invoked by those struggling with lustful temptations.
Available at www.OrthodoxGladness.com under New Arrivals
One of each available. Both icons come with a bottle of myrrh from the Cathedral of St. Demetrius, Greece.
☦️Icon size 5.25 x 3.8 inches on wood
☦️Icon size 5.8 x 4.25 inches on wood
St Demetrius is regarded as a protector of the young, and is also invoked by those struggling with lustful temptations.
Available at www.OrthodoxGladness.com under New Arrivals
🌹🌹🌹Pre-order Life of a Priest icon. Expect 4 weeks.
Will make a great gift!!
Pre-order at www.OrthodoxGladness.com under New Arrivals
Will make a great gift!!
Pre-order at www.OrthodoxGladness.com under New Arrivals
Forgiveness Sunday - one of my favorite services when brothers and sisters come together and are all called to ask for forgiveness from each other, may we be able to sincerely forgive everyone and ask for forgiveness from our neighbors. Forgive me! And I forgive you! And the Lord will forgive!
I am making a few changes to be able to ship outyour items faster. I ask for forgiveness if sometimes it took a little longer then I am doing everything by myself, and it can be overwhelming sometimes.
Wishing you also a blessed Great Lent. May your guardian angel strengthen you thoughout the fast.
Forgive me a sinner, God forgives, I forgive.
I am making a few changes to be able to ship outyour items faster. I ask for forgiveness if sometimes it took a little longer then I am doing everything by myself, and it can be overwhelming sometimes.
Wishing you also a blessed Great Lent. May your guardian angel strengthen you thoughout the fast.
Forgive me a sinner, God forgives, I forgive.
CLEAN MONDAY (March 7, Lent begins). For the next forty days we fast from meat and dairy. Fish is permitted on the Great Feasts of the Annunciation (April 7/ Mar. 25) and Palm Sunday (April 17/April 4th). Wine and oil are permitted on all Saturdays and Sundays with the exception of Great and Holy Saturday (the day before Pascha/ Easter Sunday).
March 17 - Commemorating St. Abbess Gertrude of Nivelle (c. 628-659), who in later Western tradition came to be honored as the patron saint of cats.
In fact, cats in connection with St. Gertrude appeared very late: this "tradition" is not traced back to the 1980s. Apparently, cats smoothly replaced mice and rats, since traditionally it is cats who catch and exterminate them. The fact is that for quite a long time Gertrude of Nivelle was honored as a helper against the plague and - because of the role of rodents in the spread of the disease - as a threat to rodents.
This saint is also honored in the Orthodox Church.
In fact, cats in connection with St. Gertrude appeared very late: this "tradition" is not traced back to the 1980s. Apparently, cats smoothly replaced mice and rats, since traditionally it is cats who catch and exterminate them. The fact is that for quite a long time Gertrude of Nivelle was honored as a helper against the plague and - because of the role of rodents in the spread of the disease - as a threat to rodents.
This saint is also honored in the Orthodox Church.
We were expelled of old, O Lord, from the Garden of Eden, for wrongly eating from the tree. But, O my God and Savior, You once again have restored us through Your Cross and Your Passion. Thereby, O Master, fortify and enable us purely to finish Lent and to worship Your divine resurrection, Pascha our saving Passover, by the prayers of Your Mother.
Tomorrow, March 24, the Church celebrates the Triumph of Orthodoxy!
“Face to face, mouth to mouth, we, Orthodox Christians, converse with the Lord,Our Lady, the Holy Angels and all the saints. This is what it means, according to Orthodox Christian custom, to pray reverently before holy icons in spirit and truth. This is why we supply them in churches and houses of worship (chapels) and in our homes. We believe in the closeness of the Lord and His saints to us and that we are one spiritual body with them, one Church, just as there is one Head of them and ours, the Lord Jesus Christ. With such faith in our holy icons and in the Church, will you, iconoclast heretics, throw stones of slanderous condemnation at them? We are right, and you are wrong and false” - St. John of Kronstadt
“Face to face, mouth to mouth, we, Orthodox Christians, converse with the Lord,Our Lady, the Holy Angels and all the saints. This is what it means, according to Orthodox Christian custom, to pray reverently before holy icons in spirit and truth. This is why we supply them in churches and houses of worship (chapels) and in our homes. We believe in the closeness of the Lord and His saints to us and that we are one spiritual body with them, one Church, just as there is one Head of them and ours, the Lord Jesus Christ. With such faith in our holy icons and in the Church, will you, iconoclast heretics, throw stones of slanderous condemnation at them? We are right, and you are wrong and false” - St. John of Kronstadt
The Feast of the Annunciation is the first flower of Pascha, which the Holy Archangel Gabriel holds in his hand. "Rejoice, O Blessed One, the Lord is with you!" And at Pascha, when everything will blossom already with the new life of God, for which man was created, we will hear: "The angel cried to the Blessed One: Pure virgin, rejoice. And again I will say, Rejoice!
This is the joy of God becoming man. There has never been anything like it in the world before. This mystery is the highest and humblest, the greatest good news from God that ever was. Nothing in heaven or on earth can compare with this mystery. There is nothing more precious in all the history of the world, nor will there ever be anything more precious...
Now the doors of heaven are opening. The fiery cherub does not block the entrance, but invites everyone to enter, where the only way through are the words: "Be it unto me according to thy word".
Rev. Alexander Shargunov
This is the joy of God becoming man. There has never been anything like it in the world before. This mystery is the highest and humblest, the greatest good news from God that ever was. Nothing in heaven or on earth can compare with this mystery. There is nothing more precious in all the history of the world, nor will there ever be anything more precious...
Now the doors of heaven are opening. The fiery cherub does not block the entrance, but invites everyone to enter, where the only way through are the words: "Be it unto me according to thy word".
Rev. Alexander Shargunov
🌹🌹🌹The fifth Sunday of Great Lent we celebrate St. Mary of Egypt. The canon to the saint will be read in service.
📖Available are books of the Canon to St. Mary of Egypt. Great to follow along during service or for home use.
Price $5
Also available, only 1 left, icon of Sts Zosimas and Mary of Egypt, size 8.5 x 6 inches on wood
https://www.orthodoxgladness.com/.../icon-of-sts-zosimas...
Price $14, Only 1 left!!!
Available at www.OrthodoxGladness.com
📖Available are books of the Canon to St. Mary of Egypt. Great to follow along during service or for home use.
Price $5
Also available, only 1 left, icon of Sts Zosimas and Mary of Egypt, size 8.5 x 6 inches on wood
https://www.orthodoxgladness.com/.../icon-of-sts-zosimas...
Price $14, Only 1 left!!!
Available at www.OrthodoxGladness.com
Seeing Thee in the Garden of Gethsemane struggling in prayer till Thou didst sweat blood, an angel appeared and strengthened Thee when our sins weighed upon Thee like a heavy burden. For, having taken lost Adam on Thy shoulders, Thou didst bring him to the Father by bending Thy knees and praying. For this I sing to Thee with faith and love: Alleluia!
Akathist Hymn to the Divine Passion of Christ
Akathist Hymn to the Divine Passion of Christ
After the priest has given Holy Communion to the people, he elevates the chalice, and says "Always, now, and forever, and to the ages of ages. Amen." In so doing, he reminds us of the Ascension of Christ, for this is the moment when Christ promises us that he "will be with us always" (Mt 28:20). Having received the Holy Spirit, having beheld the secrets of the kingdom, we can leave with the eyes of our soul brimming with the beauty that we have seen. - Elder Archimandrite Aimilianos (Vafeidis)
Sunday of the Adoration (Veneration) of the Cross April 7
Before Thy Cross
Christians do not prostrate on Sunday because this is the day we always celebrate the Resurrection, and we recall how God is able to make us stand. Our standing reminds us of the resurrection. There are one or two Sundays a year when we do prostrate (the Third Sunday of Great Lent (Veneration of the Cross), and the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, if it falls on a Sunday. On this day, the hymn "Before Thy Cross", which we sing while prostration, teaches us what our prostrations mean:
"Before Thy Cross, we fall down in worship, O Master, and Thy holy Resurrection we glorify."
When we prostrate, it is in worship of the Risen Lord, and when we raise ourselves up, we recall the resurrection.
A Christian prostrates when he makes the sign of the cross, and falls to his hands and knees (it is usually easier to have the hands touch the floor a moment before the knees), and bows his head to the ground, then gets back up.
Before Thy Cross
Christians do not prostrate on Sunday because this is the day we always celebrate the Resurrection, and we recall how God is able to make us stand. Our standing reminds us of the resurrection. There are one or two Sundays a year when we do prostrate (the Third Sunday of Great Lent (Veneration of the Cross), and the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, if it falls on a Sunday. On this day, the hymn "Before Thy Cross", which we sing while prostration, teaches us what our prostrations mean:
"Before Thy Cross, we fall down in worship, O Master, and Thy holy Resurrection we glorify."
When we prostrate, it is in worship of the Risen Lord, and when we raise ourselves up, we recall the resurrection.
A Christian prostrates when he makes the sign of the cross, and falls to his hands and knees (it is usually easier to have the hands touch the floor a moment before the knees), and bows his head to the ground, then gets back up.
The most beautiful church I have visited in my entire life, the Holy Trinity Church of Karoulia on Mount Athos, 20 years ago.
The church suffered a lot of damage from falling rocks, without a roof, but this spirit in the church, this peace is indescribable, not of this world.
I then went to Mount Athos, praying to the Lord and the Most Holy Theotokos to show me the way, marriage or monastic life... I had an answer.
The church suffered a lot of damage from falling rocks, without a roof, but this spirit in the church, this peace is indescribable, not of this world.
I then went to Mount Athos, praying to the Lord and the Most Holy Theotokos to show me the way, marriage or monastic life... I had an answer.