Orthodox Daily Devotional for Bright Week
Monday **Readings for several weeks will be from the Book of Acts which is the history of the early Church. Acts 1 4 And being assembled together with them, He...
Devotional for Holy Week
Quotes from St. Nikolai Velimirovich’s ‘Prologue of Ohrid’ Palm Sunday At the glorious Entry of the Lord Jesus into Jerusalem, and even in the Temple itself, the children cried...
Orthodox Daily Devotional for the 6th Week of Lent
Sunday The announcement of] His Resurrection: “…and the third day He shall rise #8221; (Mark 10:32-45) The catechesis, the preparation for the great mystery, is drawing to its end,...
Orthodox Daily Devotional for the 5th Week of Lent
Sunday From [the third – last week] Sunday on, the lessons from the Epistle to the Hebrews begin to reveal to us the meaning of Christ’s sacrifice by which...
Orthodox Daily Devotional for the 4th Week of Lent
Sunday On the third Sunday– “Sunday of the Cross”– the theme of the Cross makes its appearance, and we are told (Mark 8:34-9:1): For what does it profit...
Orthodox Daily Devotional for the 3rd Week of Lent
Sunday 2nd Sunday of Lent Mark 12:1-12 …you shall see the inauguration of the new age, the fulfillment of all promises, the manifestation of the Kingdom. But you shall...
Orthodox Daily Devotional for the 2nd Week of Lent
Sunday From ‘Great Lent’ John 1:43-51 As to the first and essential theme of Lenten Sundays, it also is primarily revealed in the Scriptural lessons. To understand their sequence,...
Orthodox Daily Devotional for the 1st Week of Lent
Matthew 6:14-21 ORTHODOX STUDY BIBLE NOTES… Jesus insists on mutual forgiveness between people as a precondition of God’s forgiveness. Those who do not forgive are not forgiven— period. This...
Orthodox Daily Devotional for the Week of February 19
Sunday Matthew 25:31-46 (Parable of the last judgement with the sheep and goats on the right and left) This passage is read on the second Sunday before Great Lent,...
Daily Devotional for the Week of February 12
Sunday Luke 15: 11-32 on the Prodigal son The son’s request for his portion of goods (Gr. ousia, lit. “essence”) indicates man receiving his free will and his rational...