Reflection on Zacchaeus Sunday
Zacchaeus Sunday marks the end of the season “after Pentecost” and points us toward the beginning of the pre-Lenten season a week from now. Climbing the sycamore with Zacchaeus, we…
by Metropolitan Tikhon
Zacchaeus Sunday marks the end of the season “after Pentecost” and points us toward the beginning of the pre-Lenten season a week from now. Climbing the sycamore with Zacchaeus, we…
by Metropolitan Tikhon
One of the great wonderworkers among the saints is the holy hierarch Alexis of Moscow, whose icon is fairly ubiquitous in our older churches in the northeastern part…
by Metropolitan Tikhon
Throughout the Nativity cycle, we have celebrated the appearing of the Lord in the flesh—in Bethlehem as an infant, in the Jordan as a full-grown man, and now in the temple…
by Metropolitan Tikhon
Today, we celebrate the feast of the Three Holy Hierarchs. This feast is a feast of harmony, of unity, of peace in the Body of Christ. Many of you may know the story: in the eleventh century, a…
by Metropolitan Tikhon
There are a number of Russian folk sayings extoling the specialness of the number three: “God loves a trinity.” “Three fingers make a cross.” It is really no surprise, therefore…
by Metropolitan Tikhon
The spirit of the times often tempts us to think that, in response to every injustice, each of us must “do something,” and this “something” is often a public proclamation—we are…
by Metropolitan Tikhon
Saint Mark of Ephesus is rightly known foremost as a confessor and defender of Orthodoxy, for his rejection of the Florentine Council and his treatise against the Latin…
by Metropolitan Tikhon
Joyous feast! Christ is baptized! Two thousand years ago, the innocent Lamb, harmless, sinless, and spotless, was plunged into the waters of the Jordan. A dove…
by Metropolitan Tikhon
Today is the beginning of a period which the Typicon calls the “forefeast of lights,” and appropriately we begin this brief season with the celebration of Saint Seraphim…
by Metropolitan Tikhon
In the services for today’s feast, Christ’s Circumcision is seen, first and foremost, as a sign of his divine humility, prefiguring the humiliation of his Passion. Though he is…