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The Orthodox Feast “The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple”
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The Feast "Presentation of the Lord at the Temple" in the time of Emperor Justinian spread from Jerusalem to the whole East. Celebrated it on the forty day after the Birth of Jesus. The name of the feast came from the fact of meeting of God’s Son, Holy Virgin with religious Simeon. In the spiritual sense, this meeting is a symbol of the meeting of the Old and New Testaments...
Eve of the Theophany
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On January 18, 2021, on the Eve of the Theophany (Eve of Baptism) Archbishop Alexander in concelebration with Bishop Nicholas ministered the festive prayer service and accomplished the first Great Rite of Water Consecration in the Transfiguration of the Lord Temple.
Christian feast “Christmas Day”
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The feast of Christmas is considered to be a great Christian holiday and it is one of twelve main Orthodox feasts, which are celebrated by Church with a special solemnity. The feast was set in the honor of the birth of Our God Jesus Christ, God’s Son on the Earth...
Christmas
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In the morning of January 7, 2021, in the Temple of Transfiguration of the Lord, Bishop Nicholas celebrated the solemn Divine Liturgy in honor of the Nativity of the Lord.
Christmas Eve
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On Christmas Eve, January 6, 2021, in the Transfiguration of the Lord Temple, Bishop Nicholas made the solemn thanksgiving service, during which five loaves, wine, oil, wheat, kutia (sweet grain pudding, Ukrainian traditional Christmas dish), fish and other gifts of God were blessed to celebrate the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ...
Christmas epistle of Archbishop Oleksandr
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Jesus is coming!
Let’s glorify Him!
Dear brothers and sisters, I congratulate you with the light and majestic feast of Christmas!
During these days people’s souls are happy in a very special way, because the great flow of God’s grace is coming on the Earth. The Great renewal of the earthly and human nature is coming.
Right now, like two thousand years ago Jesus Christ has been mystically born and He carried the salvation to the people through the improvement of human souls!...