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No respite (Saint Dimitri of Rostov)

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Spiritual vigilance and your struggle against demonic evil will go on until the end of your days, and that’s because Satan’s always on the watch, never resting, like a wild lion prowling everywhere, looking to devour anyone who’s escaped him. Woe betide those he finds asleep.

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The Feast of Christ’s Reception as Fulfillment of the Ritual of Mosaic Law (Theodore Rokas)

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The recent feast, the Reception of the Lord, is the feast which is celebrated exactly forty days after that of His Nativity. The name of the feast in Greek comes from a verb meaning ‘to go out and meet or welcome someone’ . As regards the determination of the celebration of the feast on 2 February, this was decided in the 6th century, at the time of Emperor Justinian. It was fixed on this day because it is the fortieth after Christ’s birth, which, it had been decided in the 4th century, was to be celebrated on December 25. We draw our information regarding the event of the Lord’s Reception from the Gospel according to Saint Luke. In the narrative in ...

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