On Palm Sunday. The Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem

Verses: He Who by His word created the heavens sat upon a dumb beast, delivering mankind from becoming like the irrational animals. We celebrate the glorious and most radiant feast of the Palms for the following reason. After the raising of Lazarus from the dead, many who saw what had taken place believed in Christ; […]

The singing of the Akathist in honour of the Most Holy Theotokos during a monastic service at the Lavra

The singing of the stichera ‘Come, let us bless the ever-memorable Joseph’ during the Passion Service

Sticheron hymn of the Holy Friday Come, let us bless the ever-memorable Joseph, who came by night to Pilate and begged for the Giver of Life: “Give me this Stranger, Who has no place to lay His head; Give me this Stranger Whom the crafty disciple has betrayed to death; Give me this Stranger, whose […]

The Head of the UOC Performed the Monastic Tonsure of Four Members of the Lavra Brotherhood

On Tuesday of the Week of the Veneration of the Cross, the Sacred Archimandrite of the Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, His Beatitude Onuphry, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, tonsured members of the monastery brotherhood into the mantle. The rite of tonsure was performed in the Lavra church dedicated to St. Agapitus of the Caves. The […]

Teaching on the Third Sunday of Great Lent. On Bearing the Cross

“If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me,” said the Lord to His disciples, having called them before Him, as we heard today in the Gospel. Beloved brethren! We also are disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ, for we are Christians. We also have […]

Singing of the kontakion during the Akathist to the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God

Kontakion to the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God Neither the tomb, nor death had power over the Theotokos, Who is unsleeping in Her intercessions and an unchanging hope in Her protection.  For as the Mother of Life, She was translated into life by Him Who dwelt in Her ever-virginal womb. You may […]

The Synaxis of All the Venerable Fathers of the Kyiv Caves — the Spiritual Heritage of the Pechersk Monastery

The Synaxis of All the Venerable Fathers of the Kyiv Caves is celebrated on the Second Sunday of Great Lent. The ascetics of the Kyiv Caves inspired their followers to spiritual labours, demonstrating that the path to God is attained through repentance, prayer, and humility. The life of the monastery was built upon strict discipline, […]

Lavra in March

Akathist to All the Venerable Fathers of the Kyiv Caves

Kontakion 1 O God-chosen host and divinely radiant choir, our venerable Fathers of the Caves, fountains of many miracles, first teachers and guides of monastic and ascetic communal life in Rus’, we dare from heartfelt longing to offer you this hymn of praise. But you, having great boldness before Christ our God, the Author of […]

‘…our task is to live our lives in an Orthodox way.’

On the first Sunday of the Holy Forty Days, which is known as the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy, the divine services at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra were presided over by the Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kyiv and All Ukraine. Before the Divine Liturgy of St Basil the […]