Keeping the Sabbath “Love Feasts” More Fully. Below is a chapter from the book “Sabbath in the Orthodox Church“. While most of the book is about church history, this chapter is more on Pastoral counselling. This book would be incomplete without a section that covers the benefits and practices by which a believer can increase […]
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Orthodox English Lectionary for month of October 2018
The Culdees’ high holy day celebrations (feasts of YAHWEH) are included in bold, as per the Apostles’ Didascalia Calendar the first month Nisan which begins each year is started by the first visible crescent after the spring equinox. Every Saturday, Orthodox Sabbath is a lectionary sermon held live by the OCC on the website www.orthodoxchurch.nl. Trumpets […]
Homily of Saint Jerome on the Sabbath
In the Homilies of Saint Jerome (a 4th-5th Century theologian) it is demonstrated that in his times, Sabbath observance (Saturday) was wholly expected. Homily 21 on Psalm 92 we read, “The Ninety-first Psalm is inscribe with the title: ‘A psalm; a song for the Sabbath day.’ There could be no Sabbath day without six preceding […]