The Akathist Hymn is a Service of the Orthodox Church ... 90-minute educational classes are intended to assist Orthodox Christians to more fully prepare themselves for the celebration of Lent and ...

In Lent, we Christians--like Hebrews who remember slavery by eating ... She accompanies us now as we gather at her knees like children, revering with a hymn (never sitting) and touching with love her ...

A prayer for Orthodox Christians at all times. This service celebrates the restoration of Holy Icons to the Orthodox Church. It is celebrated on the Sunday of Orthodoxy (the first Sunday of Lent). The ...

American Christians can illuminate our country’s politics—if we engage with moral imagination, neighborliness, boldness, and ...

Hymns were designed not to glorify the poet but to aid worshipers in expressing their feelings to God. In his introduction to The Oxford Book of Christian Verse, Donald Davie asks what sort of ...

Some eight centuries after St. Francis of Assisi composed "Creatures of the Canticle," the manuscript is making its first ...

Christians worldwide are celebrating Lent by fasting and repenting while abstaining from luxuries. The period began on Ash Wednesday (February 14) and lasts for 40 days. By the time Lent is over ...

This hymn can be very suitable at a wedding as it portrays our Christian lives as a dance, with Jesus as the leader. This hymn can also be very suitable at a funeral as the words tell of Christ ...

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He cancelled a scheduled performance, the Yesuvin Sangama Sangeetham (Fusion Music of Christ), a concert produced by popular Tamil Christian producer ... singing Christian hymns and for ...

Pope Francis ushered in the annual Christian Lenten period of sacrifice ... ashes were sprinkled on Francis’ bowed head while a choir sang hymns. Lent is the time to “drop the pretence of ...