‘And He rose again from the dead on the third day, according to the Scriptures. . .’ Christ is risen from the dead! This is the main proclamation of the Christian faith and the heart of Christian belief. It forms the heart of the Church’s preaching, Core of our worship, and Read more…
Simon the Zealot is one of the most obscure among the apostles of Jesus, a man about whom we know so little, to add to the fact that, his name also produces problem. The name occurs in all four lists of Apostles. To distinguish him from Simon Peter, he is called Read more…
The Apostle and Evangelist St. John, called the Theologian, was the son of Salome and Zebedee and brother of James the greater. He was a fisherman by trade and while he and his brother were engaged in mending their nets in the boat by the lakeside with their father that Read more…
The Orthodox Churches gives the most importance or reverence to the Holy Gospels, the written Word of Living God (Jn. 1: 1). We, Orthodox offer maximum reverence to it. In the Church, we keep the Holy Gospel in special place called, ‘Evangelion Table; in the Madbhaha – Holy of Holies)’ Read more…
Gospel (Evangelion) Evangelion (Gospel/Good News – Greek: Evangelion) or Book of the Gospels refers to the first four books of the New Testament. These books are titled as ‘Gospel according to St. ….….’ It is not a simple narrative of the life of Jesus of Nazareth but a presentation of Jesus as Christ, the Word. However, the Evangelion Book’ (or just Evangelion), is a book that contains the Gospel reading portion for Read more…
Light signifies the presence of God, Who is light, Himself. Churches, traditionally has an oil lighted lamp in the center of Nave. The most frequent images of lamps in the Bible relate to worship. The lamps on the seven-branched lamp stand in the tabernacle were to be constantly lit (Exodus Read more…
James, the brother of John and son of Zebedee and Salome, is the most tantalizingly figures among the twelve. James is often styled the ‘the Greater’ (Jacobus Major) to mean older or taller, as he was first, called by Christ as His disciple, before Apostle James ‘the Less’, who was Read more…
Churches use bells for spiritual and practical purposes such as to call the faithful to worship, to signify the time for worshipers to gather for worship and to announce times of daily prayer called the canonical hours. to highlight a particular stage during a Church service, to remind the faithful of God’s presence Read more…
St. Mark was born in the city of Cyrene in Pentapolis, in the western part of present Libya, (North Africa) in the border with Egypt. Mark the Evangelist (Latin: Mārcus) is the traditional author of the Gospel of Mark. He is one of the Seventy Disciples, and the founder of Read more…
Baptismal font (Gurno d Mamodito) is important feature, symbol and a sacred object in each Orthodox Church. It is a basin, vessel (gurno) or a receptacle made of stone or marble fixed on a pillar or pedestal with 3 and 1/2 feet high or a at a convenient height. It Read more…