How does the Orthodox Church understand the Person and Work of the Holy Spirit?

There is one key issue that we now face in the post-Christian West. In so far as many people believe that there is a God they take the divine to be a simple, abstract, impersonal force

Perhaps nothing in the Christian Church has been more misunderstood in the modern age than the Ascension.

Subdeacon Emmanuel gives the homily on the Sunday of the Blind Man.

Dn. Christopher is the guest homilist for the Sunday of the Paralytic.

The Holy Myrrh Bearing Women were the first to proclaim the risen Christ to their incredulous male counterparts.

Deacon Christopher is the homilist on Great and Holy Saturday.

Subdeacon Emmanuel is the homilist for the Great and Holy Thursday service.

Fr. Gregory encourages us to live the joy of the resurrection all year round.

Why did our Lord have to suffer and die? We cannot conclude with the benefit of hindsight that this was simply what He had to endure to make the resurrection possible. Orthodox Christianity insists that there is necessary meaning in both the death and resurrection of our Lord.