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What is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross?
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross is one of the twelve Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church, celebrated every year on September 14. We commemorate…
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What is the Entrance of the Theotokos?
The Entrance of the Theotokos is one of the twelve Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church, celebrated every year on November 21st. It commemorates the…
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What is the Nativity of Christ (Orthodox Christmas)?
The Nativity of Christ is the celebration of Jesus Christ’s birth in the flesh. It’s one of the Twelve Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church,…
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What is Theophany?
Theophany is the feast celebrating Christ’s baptism in the Jordan River. It’s celebrated on January 6th and it’s one of the twelve Great Feasts of…
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What is the Meeting of the Lord (Presentation)?
On February 2, forty days after Christmas, we celebrate the Meeting of the Lord. It’s when Mary and Joseph brought the infant Jesus to the…
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What is the Annunciation?
The Annunciation is when the Archangel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary and told her she would conceive and bear the Son of God. Mary…
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What is Palm Sunday?
Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem one week before His resurrection. The crowds greeted Him with palm branches and shouts of “Hosanna,” hailing Him…
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What is the Ascension?
Forty days after the Resurrection, Jesus Christ ascended bodily into heaven from the Mount of Olives. This wasn’t a metaphor. He rose into the sky…
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What is Pentecost?
Pentecost is the birthday of the Church. Fifty days after Pascha, the Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles in tongues of fire, and they went…
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What is the Transfiguration?
The Transfiguration is the moment when Christ revealed His divine glory to three of His apostles on a mountain. His face shone like the sun.…
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What is the Dormition of the Theotokos?
The Dormition is the Orthodox feast celebrating the death of the Virgin Mary and her being taken up into heaven. We celebrate it on August…
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What is Pascha (Easter)?
Pascha is the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. It’s the center of everything we believe and do as Orthodox Christians. If you grew…
