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O my soul, O my soul, arise, why sleepest thou; the end is nigh, and ruin draweth near to thee

O my soul, O my soul, arise, why sleepest thou; the end is nigh, and ruin draweth near to thee. Be watchful, lest thou slumber and be weakened by sleep, lest thou lose Christ God, the Master, as Isaiah spoke in the time of night the Byzantine theologian and hymnographer

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Caravaggio's “Burial of Saint Lucy”, painted in 1608 during his flight from Malta, is in Syracuse, in the church of Santa Lucia alla Badia on Ortygia

The picture was painted to a local commission, at a time when the cult of the saint venerated here had suffered from the theft of her relics. In this large-format altarpiece, measuring three metres by four, the body of the beheaded martyr Lucy of Syracuse is shown in the

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The Trinity Lavra of St Sergius in 1962

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A Remarkable Photograph, More Like a Painting

Nuns who teach at the Saint Joseph de Saint-Vallier girls' school in Quebec skate against the backdrop of the Laurentian foothills. 1967. Photo by John Lanois

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Congratulations to all on the beginning of Great Lent, the Holy Forty Days, in memory of the forty-day fast of Jesus Christ in the wilderness

And Easter this year falls on 12 April

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Art must bring happiness and joy, or it is worth nothing

The Church of the Holy Trinity on the bank of the Oka, in the village of Bekhovo, was created in 1904–1906 by Vasily Polenov himself, who drew on the forms of Romanesque and Byzantine building and of the architecture of the Russian North. But the church suffered badly in

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The times are hard and dangerous

The times are hard and dangerous. The enemy advances subtly, cunningly, and draws near. One can feel the breath of the Antichrist. On no account give way to panic. It is precisely now that signals are coming which incline us to draw closer to God and to one another. Let

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Water-carrier dogs before the Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour in the town of Okhotsk, 1880s

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How Are Heretics Made?

The answer, on a Dutch engraving of the early seventeenth century: Winged, like a fallen angel, and decked out in an academic gown, he is goaded on by curiosity, while flattery holds up to him an ornate mirror adorned with feathers, that he may contemplate himself. And not a single

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“Messengers of the Resurrection”

Nikolai Ge

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Do you remember the lines "A girl was singing in a church choir of all the weary in a foreign land"?

Do you remember the lines "A girl was singing in a church choir of all the weary in a foreign land"? In them Blok immortalised the Church of the Archangel Michael in the village of Tarakanovo. In his memoirs he writes of it as follows: Mendeleev and my

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In the "Object of Desire" column: the new book "Death to the World"

New in the "Object of Desire" column is the book "Death to the World. Volume One: Genesis", which gathers all the material from the original Orthodox American samizdat "Death to the World" of the 1990s, published by the monks of the Monastery of St