“Christos Anesti!” (“Christ has risen!”). “Alithos Anesti” (“Truly, He has risen!”). Happy Greek Orthodox Easter! The most important holiday of the Greek Orthodox religion is Easter, or “Pascha,” a ...

Let God arise, and his enemies be scattered: and let those that hate him flee before his face. A sacred Pascha has been revealed to us today, a new and holy Pascha, a mystic Pascha, an all-venerable ...

Easter celebrations are not quite over, as members of Eastern Orthodox Church are preparing to celebrate Greek Easter on Sunday, April 8. The two holidays commemorate the resurrection of Jesus on ...

Each year in the weeks leading up to Easter, my mom always tells the same infamous story. One day in second grade, I came home bawling, and when my mom asked what was wrong, I burst into another round ...

Let God arise, and his enemies be scattered: and let those that hate him flee before his face. A sacred Pascha has been revealed to us today, a new and holy Pascha, a mystic Pascha, an all-venerable ...

A remarkable episode happened during my Orthodox Christian prehistory. It was it the late ‘70s; we lived in Leningrad on the Kriukov canal, just opposite the St. Nicholas Cathedral, and every year we ...

When He rose, empires fell. I wonder if the people sitting in churches this week understand how very much Jesus of Nazareth’s last week of life was driven by clashes pertaining to wealth and poverty, ...