Forty days after Christ was born he was presented to God in the Jerusalem Temple according to the Mosaic Law. At this time as well his mother Mary underwent the ritual purification and offered the sacrifices as prescribed in the Law. Thus, forty days after Christmas, on the second of February, the Church celebrates the feast of the presentation called the Meeting (or Presentation or Reception) of the Lord.

When a human enters into the world, he enters from nowhere, of total, radical absence enters through the gates of time in order to grow into eternity. He enters an ephemeral world in order to become citizen of God’s Kingdom.

A todos mis queridos sacerdotes, diáconos, lectores, coreutas, colaboradores parroquiales y a todos los feligreses, hijos de la Iglesia Ortodoxa Rusa en el Extranjero de la Diócesis de América del Sur les deseo de todo corazón, sinceramente, festejar la fiesta de la Natividad de Cristo con alegría espiritual, en paz, buena salud y comunión de los Santos Sacramentos de Cristo!

We are keeping a Feast which is the decisive point in the history not only of mankind but of the whole Cosmos.

Every year before Christmas we read the genealogy of Christ from St. Matthew's Gospels, and for years I asked myself, why? Why have we got to read all these names that mean so little to us, if anything at all? And then I became more perceptive of what they convey to us.

Before we pray, I should like to introduce our prayers so that when we pray, we do it more effectively, with one mind and with one heart...

Ten lepers came to the Lord; ten men who were ritually unclean and therefore, ritually rejected by their community, unable to attend the common worship of the Temple, unable to come near the habitations of men; and unclean also in the eyes of men because their sickness could be transmitted to others: others could become impure, others could be sick unto death...

The Lord warns us today of how difficult it is for a man who is rich to enter the Kingdom of God. Does it mean that the Kingdom of God is open only to destitute, to those who are materially poor, who lack everything on earth?

Time and again we read in the Gospel of the anger which the Lord Jesus Christ provoked by performing an act of mercy, a miracle of healing on a Sabbath day. And we cannot help asking ourselves a question: Why did He do it so constantly, so persistently, with such insistence? Could it be to challenge those who surrounded Him? Could it be to provoke them? Could it be simply a pedagogical action?

Since early days the Church has given to the Mother of God titles of holiness greater than those which are given to any saint...

I want to attract you attention to two or three of the features of today's parable. We are told that a man was on his way from Jerusalem to Jericho. In the Old Testament Jerusalem was the place where God lived; it was the place of worship, the place of prayer. And he was now on the way down to the plain, down from the mountain of vision to where human life takes place...

The end of today's Gospel reading is a warning about something that we could all be aware of all the time, - that death is at our elbow, that much, very much, of what we do will perish with us as unnecessary, mortal.

Dice Jesucristo “A vosotros se os ha dado el conocer los misterios del Reino de Dios; a los demás sólo en parábolas…”

Explosión durante el funeral del sacerdote secuestrado El artefacto fue detonado durante la celebración de la Divina Liturgia exequial en un templo ortodoxo. Hay civiles y militares muertos. El padre Fabi Jamil Haddad había sido hallado muerto y con signos de tortura. Lo recuerdan como "mártir de la reconciliación y la armonía"

There are many passages in the Gospel in which Christ turning to a person who is either sick in mind or in body asks a question, and this question is always: Does thou wish to be made whole?

¿Qué más maravillosa suerte le puede suceder a una persona en la tierra? Que la de realizar la voluntad de Dios, y no solamente de vez en cuando, superficialmente, y/o a menudo con desgano, sino tal cual como ella se realiza en el cielo!

The Protection (Pokrov) of the MostHoly Mother of God: "The Virgin today doth stand forth within the Church, and with the choirs of the Saints invisibly for us doth pray to God: angels with hierarchs make reverence, and apostles with prophets sing forth: for us the Birthgiver of God prayeth the Praeternal God" – this miraculous appearance of the Mother of God...

“Somos débiles, pero el Espíritu Santo viene en nuestra ayuda. No sabemos cómo pedir ni qué pedir, pero el Espíritu Santo intercede y lo pide por nosotros, sin palabras, con exclamaciones indescriptibles (Romanos 8: 26)

We have been keeping these days the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. There is a passage in the Gospel in which the Lord says to us, "No one has greater love than he who gives his life for his neighbour". And these words resolve the antinomy between the horror of the Cross and the glory of it, between death and the Resurrection.

In today's Gospel we are told that God did not send His Only-Begotten Son into the world to judge the world but to save the world...

Cuando llegó el tiempo del nacimiento del Salvador del mundo, vivía en la ciudad de Galilea Nazaret, un descendiente del rey David, Joaquín, con su esposa Ana. Ambos eran personas devotas y conocidas por su humildad y misericordia. Alcanzaron la vejez sin tener hijos. Esto los apenaba mucho...

In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. How often have we heard today’s a parable about those people who were called to the Bridal Feast of the King, and who refused to come...

Dormición de la Santísima Virgen María. Después de la ascensión de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo a los Cielos, la Santísima Virgen habitualmente vivía en los dominios de Jerusalén, visitando los lugares donde predicaba y hacía milagros Su Hijo.

No sólo es impresionante, a veces asusta predicar la Palabra de Dios, porque el Señor dijo: "Por tus palabras serás juzgado". Juzgados, porque proclamamos la Verdad de Dios y permanecemos indolentes y no hacedores de lo que el Señor ha mandado.

En el nombre del Padre, del Hijo y del Espíritu Santo. Hay momentos bienaventurados o trágicos cuando podemos ver a una persona revelada en una luz con una profundidad, con una belleza impresionante que nunca antes hemos sospechado.

In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Time and again I am asked by people on a concrete occasion ‘What is the Will of God for me now, in the nearest future?

En el Nombre del Padre, del Hijo y del Espíritu Santo. Me gustaría comenzar con las palabras de San Pablo. Él nos dice que todos los que hemos escuchado la vivificadora y creadora palabra de Dios, estamos construyendo nuestra vida sobre un fundamento seguro, no sólo en la enseñanza de Cristo, sino en Su presencia,

Conmemoración del hieromártir Athenógenes, obispo de Heracleópolis y sus diez discípulos.- 1 Cor. 1:10-18- Mat. 4: 14-22 En el nombre del Padre, del Hijo, y del Espíritu Santo. El Señor nos dice:”Arrepentíos, porque está cerca el reino de los cielos”

In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. In his Epistle to the Romans (15:1-7) St. Paul calls all Christians to be the strength and the support of those who are weak.

Sermón del Arzobispo Juan de San-Francisco, pronunciado por la muerte del Zar-Mártir Nicolás II.
"La voz de la sangre de tu hermano clama desde la tierra a mi. Ahora pues, maldito seas tú de la tierra. que abrió su boca para recibir de tu mano la sangre de tu hermano" (Génesis 4:10-11)

In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. How familiar is this story to us. Yet every time we read it we rediscover something in it which touches our heart, or gives a new light to our mind.

In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. The Gospel story of the centurion tells us about a men whose faith exceeded that of the Jewish people, although he himself was a pagan.

“Buscad primero el reino de Dios y su justicia, y esas cosas todas se os darán por añadidura”. Hoy conmemoramos a los santos Apóstoles Bartolomé y Bernabé.

In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. We are keeping today the feast of all the Saints of Russia, a country whose history was remarkably short, barely a thousand years, and which has been filled, from the beginning to the end, by tragedy, by bloodshed and by martyrdom.

In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. The Mother of God and the Saints whose memory we keep today, those who are known to us because God has revealed them, and because they have been understood and recognised, either by their contemporaries...

DAY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.

El apóstol Pablo recomienda, amonesta y exhorta a Timoteo de la siguiente forma: “Conserva sin deformarlo el tipo de palabras sanas que de mi oíste, con fe y la caridad que está en Cristo Jesús. Guarda el precioso depósito por el Espíritu Santo, que habita en nosotros.”(2 Tim, 1, 13-14)

EPÍSTOLA PASCUAL AL CLERO Y PARROQUIANOS DE LA DIÓCESIS DE SUDAMÈRICA “El ángel exclamó a la Bendita: ¡Regocíjate Virgen Purísima! Y nuevamente ¡Regocíjate! Tu Hijo ha resucitado luego de tres días de la tumba”.

Qué tan difícil es conectar lo que está sucediendo ahora y lo que alguna vez fue: la gloria de esta salida de la Sábana Santa, y el horror, el horror humano que afectó a toda la creación: el entierro de Cristo en esa única e inolvidable Viernes Santo!

In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Today Christ enters the path not only of His sufferings but of that dreadful loneliness which enshrouds Him during all the days of Passion week.

In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. We keep today the memory of Saint Mary of Egypt in the gradual progression from glory to glory which Lent is, and which must lead us step by step to facing the supreme glory of the Divine Love crucified, the sacrificial love of the Holy Trinity.

In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. St John Climacus, whose memory we keep today, says in one of his writings: “We shall not be judged, brothers, we shall not be condemned for not having worked miracles or spoken words of prophecy; but we shall be condemned for not having bewailed our sins throughout our life.”

n the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. As we progress deeper and deeper into the weeks of Lent, we can say with an ever-growing sense of gratitude and of joy, of a serene and exulting joy the words of a Psalm, ‘My soul shall live, and with gratitude I will give glory to the Lord'.

In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. In one of the Psalms we can read the following words: Those who have sown with tears will reap with joy... If in the course of weeks of preparation we have seen all that is ugly and unworthy in us mirrored in the parables, if we have stood before the judgement of our conscience and of our God, then we have truly sown in tears our own salvation.

In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. We are keeping today, as every year at the end of the first week of Lent, the Feast of the Triumph of Orthodoxy. And every year we must give thought to what is meant, not only as a historical event, but also in our personal lives. First of all we must remember that the Triumph of Orthodoxy is not the Triumph of the Orthodox over other people. It is the Triumph of the Truth Divine in the hearts of those who belong to the Orthodox Church and who proclaim the Truth revealed by God in its integrity and directness.

In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. After these weeks of preparation during which we have examined our soul, our lives, all our relationship before the eyes and the judgement of God, we enter today into the joy of Lent; the joy of Lent. The word ‘lent’ means the spring; it is a beginning, and a beginning of life, a beginning of newness, a new time.

LA PRESENTACIÓN DEL SEÑOR EN EL TEMPLO Padre Thomas Hopko

In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. How simple and how restrained are the words in which the Gospel describes his cruel rejection of his father, and prepares his departure into the far, the strange country! “Father - give me my part of thy inheritance!” Do these words not mean: “Father - I can't wait until your death! You are still strong, and I am young; it is now that I want to reap the fruits of thy life, of thy labours; later they will be stale. Let us come to an agreement: for me you are dead; give me what belongs to me or what would belong to me after your actual death, and I will go, and I will live the life I have chosen”...

Sermón del Metropolitano Filaret en la Glorificación de los Santos Nuevos Mártires y Confesores de Rusia.

SERMON DE LA SEMANA

Recuperación del Templo de San Miguel Arcángel.

En Tres Capones, el viernes último se realizó la elección del Escudo que identificará a esa localidad del departamento de Apóstoles, de más dee 1.500 habitantes.