EDITORIAL NOTE: In the Exapostilarion of the Holy Cross, read and displayed at the beginning of the video, the last line should be "wounder of demons" instead of "wonder of demons". In this video, we ...

Save, O Lord, Your people and bless Your inheritance; grant victory to the faithful over their adversaries. And protect Your commonwealth, by the power of Your Cross. Kontakion (Fourth Tone) You who ...

To house the relic of the True Cross, St. Helen had s church built over the Holy Sepulchre. The church was consecrated on Sept. 13, 335, an event also commemorated in the service hymns of the Feast.

In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. We have been keeping these days the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. There is a passage in the Gospel in which the Lord says to us, Greater ...