زيارة كنيسة السيدة والمطرانية القديمة

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خدمة الهجمة مع سحرية وقداس الفصح المجيد في حلب

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Palm Sunday Liturgy in the Mariamite Cathedral in Damascus, presided by Patriarch John X.

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Eight Years Since the Kidnapping of the Bishops of Aleppo

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Patriarch John X celebrating the Great Akathist Serviceat Our Lady of Balamand Patriarchal Monastery Balaman

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Patriarch's Homilies

For the New Year 2021 from the Patriarchal Cathedral “Maryamiyya” in Damascus

We ask Him for divine mercy and the heavenly kingdom for everyone who left us this past year and stand before His holy glory.

We ask Him to lift the present pandemic from His world and grant His solace and cure the sick and injured.

We pray for the unknown soldiers, the medical staff and front-line workers.

Publications

Paschal letter 2021

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Lent Pastoral Letter 2021

Weekly Feasts & Saints

Archdioceses

05-11Saints Cyril and Methodius

Let us honour our sacred pair of enlighteners, who, by translating the divine writings, have poured forth for us a well-spring of divine knowledge from which we draw abundantly even unto this day: We call you blessed, O Cyril and Methodius, ye that stand before the throne of the Most High and intercede fervently for our souls.

05-11Hieromartyr Mocius

Armed with the breastplate of faith, thou didst turn back the arrays of the ungodly, and didst receive a crown of glory from the Lord, O blessed Mocius. Wherefore, seeing thou rejoicest with the Angels, preserve from all perils them that praise thee, as thou intercedest unceasingly for us all.

05-12Saint Epiphanius the Bishop of Cyprus and Saint Germanus the Patriarch of Constantinople

Saint Epiphanius the Bishop of Cyprus

Saint Germanus the Patriarch of Constantinople

05-13The Holy Martyr Glyceria

The saint prayed to the Lord, imploring that He take her unto Himself. In answer she heard a Voice from Heaven, summoning her to heavenly bliss. At that moment, another lioness was set loose upon the saint. It pounced upon the martyr and killed her, but did not tear her apart.

05-14Saint Isidore the Martyr of Chios

In thy holy prayers to God, thou hast shone brightly, a great guide for all the world. Wherefore, we praise thee on this day, O Saint, thou Martyr of godly mind and boast of Chios, O glorious Isidore.

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05-15Saints Pachomius the Great and Saint Achilles The Bishop of Larissa

Saint Pachomius the Great

Saint Achilles The Bishop of Larissa

05-16Saint Theodore the Sanctified

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While flourishing like a palm tree in the house of God, thou broughtest forth fruits of virtues through thine excellence in ascetic labours, O righteous Father, sanctified Theodore. Hence, thou art now called blest by all, since thou art a true peer of the bodiless.

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05-17The Holy Apostles Andronicus and Junia

Saint Junia and Saint Andronicus of the Seventy were relatives of the holy Apostle Paul.... See more...

05-21Equal of the Apostles and Emperor Constantine with his Mother Helen

Apolytikion in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone

He beheld the image of Your Cross in the Heavens and, as Paul, he too did not receive the call from men. Your Apostle among Kings placed the care of the Royal City in Your hands. Through the intercessions of the Theotokos, O only Loving Lord, keep it ever in peace.

05-26Saint Carpus the Apostle

O Holy Apostle Carpus, intercede to our merciful God, that He may grant our souls forgiveness of sins.

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05-27St John the Russian and Confessor

The all-holy mem'ry of thy splendid contests on this day is come to us, and it doth gladden and rejoice the souls of all them that honour thee with faith and rev'rence, O most righteous Father John.

06-13Martyr Aquilina of Byblos

The Holy Martyr Aquilina, a native of the Phoenician city of Byblos, suffered under the emperor Diocletian (284-305).

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06-29St Peter & Paul

07-11Saint Euphemia the Great Martyr

O Euphemia, Christ's comely virgin, thou didst fill the Orthodox with gladness and didst cover with shame all the heretics; for at the holy Fourth Council in Chalcedon, thou didst confirm what the Fathers decreed aright. O all-glorious Great Martyr, do thou entreat Christ God that His great mercy may be granted unto us.

07-12The Holy Martyrs Proclus and Hilarion

After his uncle had been slain with arrows, Hilary, because he would not deny Christ, was tormented, then beheaded.

07-14Saint Nicodemus the Righteous of Mount Athos

The young monk soon moved to the Pantokrator skete, where he was under obedience to the Elder Arsenius of the Peloponnesos, under whose guidance he zealously studied Holy Scripture and the works of the Holy Fathers.

07-15The Holy Martyrs Cyricus and His Mother Julitta

As the Martyr of Christ God, the chaste Julitta, in her arms bare Cyricus, she cried out in the stadium with manful courage and boundless joy: Thou art the strength of the Martyrs, O Christ my God.

07-16Hieromartyr Athenogenes

Having followed the Lord's teaching, as an eminent shepherd thou didst lay down thy life for Christ's sheep, O Hieromartyr Athenogenes. Wherefore, we praise thee and thy ten disciples who suffered with thee, guided by the fear of God and thy teaching; for the Lord hath crowned you as Saints with His life-giving right hand. Pray, then, to Him in behalf of us all.

07-17The Holy Great Martyr Marina

Adorned with the beauty of Purity, O Virgin; crowned with the stigmata of martyrdom; stained with the blood of your struggles; and brilliantly radiant with healing wonders, piously, O Marina, you received the trophy of victory for your struggles.