The fifth Easter message
Resurrection Day, April 15, 333 AD, may your minds be enlightened by the light of the Lord, my brothers... We move thus from one feast to another, and we move from [...]
The fourth Easter message
Easter 7 Baramuda 48(1) / April 2, 332 AD (This letter was sent from the imperial court by a soldier(2))
The third Easter message
Easter on April 11, 331 AD. Let us celebrate despite our distress (1) and my presence with you, my beloved brothers. The day of the feast has approached us once again.
The second Easter message
The Feast of Resurrection on April 19, 330 AD. Let us follow the example of the ancients in observing the feast, my brothers... Has Easter come and joy has come?
The first Easter message
Easter on April 6, 329 AD. This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us go, my beloved, for time is calling us to
Chapter Twenty-Eight - The Ritual Year
The life of the saints is the life of Christ himself, continuing throughout the ages. We are united to them on the basis of the human nature that Christ reformed through his incarnation, death and resurrection. In the divine liturgy, and especially the Eucharist, we participate in the life of Christ and its events and in the life of the saints, because we are all one body, Christ, the saints and ourselves, and we are all “one in Christ Jesus.”
John the Merciful, Patriarch of Alexandria
The saint was born in the year 555 in Amathus, Cyprus. His father, Epiphanius, was one of the influential people in power there. We don't know about his upbringing
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Nikephoros the Confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople
Saint Nikephoros was born in Constantinople in the year 758. His father, Theodoros, was the chief of staff of King Constantine V (one of the emperors who fought icons).
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Michael of Smyrna (Izmir), the new martyr
He was born in a town called Furla, close to the city of Izmir (currently Türkiye). He worked as a coppersmith. When he was eighteen years old
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Great Holy Week: Holy Saturday - The Tomb of Christ
On Holy Saturday the Church focuses our attention on the tomb of the Lord. This day is the most complex day of the liturgical year (64), because
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Great Holy Week
We now enter into the holiest week of the year (23). It is at the forefront of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem, which along with the resurrection of Lazarus constitutes an introduction
Easter problem
The early believers differed on the day on which they remembered the Passion and the day on which they rejoiced in the Resurrection. They divided into two teams. They were the churches of Asia Minor