Preparing for the Theophany feast
Eve of Theophany on January 5th In preparation for the Feast of the Theophany of Our Lord, the Eve of the Feast, which is Thursday, January 5th, is a day…
Nativity Fast, Nativity of the Lord and Theophany
Circumcision of the Lord and St Basil the Great
Today on the Byzantine calendar, the Church commemorates both the Circumcision of the Lord and our father among the saints Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia. Our Lord…
Thinking about the nativity and death of Jesus
“Iconographic tradition has theologically interpreted the manger and the swaddling cloths in terms of the theology of the Fathers. The child stiffly wrapped in bandages is seen as prefiguring the…
The 530th Anniversary of Christianity in the Americas
The 530th Anniversary of Christianity in the Americas By Roger R. Jean-Charles, MD, KM Christmas Day, December 25th, is a reminder that Haiti is the birthplace of Christianity in the…
The Gospels of Christmas
Soon we celebrate the birth of our Lord. We can understand better the structure of the feast, in the Byzantine Church, by looking at the Gospels which are read: 1)…