Calendar - Moveable Day Pascha

On the final Sunday of the Paschal feast, the Church commemorates the healing of the man born blind by the Lord. As the Synaxarion for this day recounts, as Christ was leaving the temple, He once saw “a blind man…

Beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, Christ Resurrected! This Paschal greeting reminds us that during the weeks from the Resurrection of Christ until His Ascension, we continue to celebrate His rising from the dead. This most prolonged celebration testifies to…

On the Fifth Sunday after Pascha, a teaching of Saint John Chrysostom, on the Gospel concerning the Samaritan Woman. John, Gospel reading 12 The Lord draws all things to Himself not only by miracles, but also by teaching: for by…

Each Sunday from the day of Christ’s Resurrection until the leave-taking of Pascha is dedicated to a particular event that revealed His divine-human nature. The Apostle who touched His wounds and exclaimed, “My Lord and my God!”; the myrrh-bearing women…

On the Wednesday of the Fourth Week after Pascha, at the Mid-feast of the Lord, a homily of Saint John Chrysostom. There were three great feasts among the Jews: Pascha, Pentecost, and Mid-feast, during which the Lord worked wondrous and…

In today’s Gospel, we hear the account of how Jesus Christ healed the paralytic at the Sheep’s Pool. This miracle took place during the feast of Pascha in Jerusalem, when many people from all Judea had gathered in the city.…

For the Fourth Sunday after Pascha: A Teaching of the Blessed Kirill of Turov on the Paralytic at the Sheep Pool, and how our Lord Jesus Christ healed him by His word. Unmeasurable is the height of the heavens, unsearchable…

On the third Sunday after Pascha, the Church commemorates the healing by the Lord of the paralytic—a man who had long lain helpless on a stretcher near the Sheep Pool in Jerusalem. This miracle, described in the Gospel according to…