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Learn: Great and Holy Pascha
One of the most symbolic of the Festal Icons of the Orthodox Church is that of the Holy Resurrection. In the center of this radiant event is Christ pulling Adam and Eve up from their tombs. The gates ...
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Great and Holy Saturday
On Great and Holy Saturday the Orthodox Church commemorates the burial ... It is not without significance that the icon of the Resurrection in our Church is the Descent of Christ into Hades, the place ...
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Dormition, Meditation of Icon
The following contribution on the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a contemplation on a fifteenth-century Greek Orthodox ... Nativity icon. But from the symbolism of Byzantine iconography, we ...
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The Orthodox Way of Knowing God
Who are the Orthodox? It’s a question ... Mathewes-Green: Faith in the Resurrection means believing that the people pictured in icons are alive — alive right now, in Paradise, in the presence ...
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What archaeology is telling us about the real Jesus
A bejeweled icon, or encolpion, worn by Theophilos III, Greek Orthodox patriarch of ... marking the site of Christ's burial and Resurrection. Photograph by Alessio Romenzi Father Solana comes ...
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Orthodox Tradition and Mary
Eastern Orthodox churches today ... Other than the many icons which celebrate Mary’s involvement in the life and work of Christ, in particular the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Crucifixion, the ...
The ancient monastery hanging from the side of a cliff
Founded in the 4th century, Sümela is a gravity-defying marvel, hanging nearly 1,000 feet over a wooded valley in Turkey, ...
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'Vibrating with life': Christian Orthodox icons in Australia's prestigious Museum of Old and New Art
She talks to SBS Greek about Mona's new exhibition 'Heavenly Beings: Icons of the Christian Orthodox World' 'Heavenly Beings: Icons of the Christian Orthodox World is the first exhibition at Mona ...
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The Holy Face, from Manoppello to San Francisco
A precious reliquary for San Francisco Cathedral, blessed in the historic Basilica of Abruzzo The reliquary bearing the image ...
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Did Jesus ‘Descend into Hell’ after his death?
(New International Version) The “harrowing of hell” refers to what Christ did when he descended to Hades or hell between his death and his resurrection ... Orthodox Church, and in similar ...
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Orthodox churches boomed during pandemic, study finds, but calls growth 'mixed bag'
But for almost half of US Orthodox Christians, whose liturgy involves processions, incense, kissing icons and crosses ... national coordinator of the US Census of Orthodox Christian Churches. Orthodox ...
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After Hagia Sophia, Turkey converts a second ancient Byzantine church into a mosque
According to Islamic tradition, artwork of human figures are forbidden in places of prayer, while in Orthodox Churches, icons ...