We often talk about the end of this world. When will it end? When love runs out. When there’s no love, life becomes meaningless. But as long as people are still queuing up for love, you and I have a chance to live well.
On Great and Holy Friday, we commemorate the end of this mission on earth and its highest point: His death on the Cross. He surrendered His soul to the Lord with the words, "It is finished".
How can a person or a country maintain God's peace in its beauty, unity, and diversity? He set an example for everyone, showing that the only way to achieve it is by giving one's life to God.
The Great and Holy Thursday is celebrated on the 2nd of May this year in the Belarusian Orthodox Church. This is the day we commemorate the Last Supper - the revelation of God’s love for people.
Thousands of years after Judas’ betrayal, we are still confronted by the same choice: are we going to direct our love to God, and restore our community with Him, or betray him, to live for the world and ourselves?
Christ’s Resurrection serves as a display of God’s almighty power in the grand scheme of our salvation. He descended into the depths of hell after death. There, He conquered death as God and Master, rising again on the third day.
The Church glorified her only fourteen years ago, but thousands are coming to her grave at the monastery of the Holy Protection, asking for her help, prayer and intercession.
His disciples were unnerved: “Why this waste?” they asked. “This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor.” (Matthew 26: 8—9).
Blind from birth and paralyzed in her legs from the age of 17, St. Matrona was endowed from childhood with the gift of unceasing prayer. By the age of seven or eight, she possessed the miraculous ability to heal the sick.
This image gives us hope that even in our darkest days the Mother of God will not deny us Her intercession if we pray in faith and sincerity.
Christ cautions us not to liken ourselves to the five unwise virgins whose lamps faded when the Bridegroom Christ came: "keep watch because you do not know the day or the hour." (Matthew 25: 13).
We commemorate New Martyr Tamara on 1 May. Despite enduring many sorrows, persecutions, slander and betrayal and suffering and dying innocently, never let her faith falter and gave comfort and encouragement to every soul.
As we make our way through the Great and Holy Week, and relive the betrayal of Christ and His death on the Cross, we are called to do everything in our power to live our lives in the spirit and bear fruit.
The Lord’s entry into the capital mirrored the processions of earthly kings, a spectacle that resonated with the people and fueled their excitement. “Hosanna to the Son of David! Hosanna in the highest!” (Matthew 21:9).