July 25, 2021 5th Sunday of Matthew Saints and Feasts Commemorated Dormition of St. Anna, mother of the Theotokos According to tradition, Anna, the ancestor of God, lived for sixty-nine years, and her spouse Joachim, for eighty; according to one account, Saint Joachim died two years before Saint Anna. The Theotokos had been […]
July 18, 2021 Sunday of the Holy Fathers Saints and Feasts Commemorated Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the 4th Ecumenical Council On the Sunday that falls from the 13th to the 19th of the present month, we chant the Service to the 630 Holy and God-bearing Fathers who came together for […]
July 11, 2021 3rd Sunday of Matthew Saints and Feasts Commemorated Euphemia the Great Martyr In 451, during the reign of the Sovereigns Marcian and Pulcheria, the Fourth Ecumenical Council was convoked in Chalcedon against Eutyches and those of like mind with him. After much debate,the Fathers who were the defenders […]
July 4, 2021 Saints and Feasts Commemorated Prayer from the Celebratory Doxology for Independence Day, July 4th O Lord our God, You hold together the universe by your power, and by Your divine and almighty will You govern the world; You created from one blood all nations of mankind that inhabit the […]
June 27, 2021 Saints and Feasts Commemorated Honouring the friends of God with much reverence, the Prophet-King David says, “But to me, exceedingly honourable are Thy friends, O Lord” (Ps. 138:16). And the divine Apostle, recounting the achievements of the Saints, and setting forth their memorial as an example that we might turn […]
June 20, 2021 Happy Father’s Day Saints and Feasts Commemorated After the Saviour’s Ascension into the Heavens, the eleven Apostles and the rest of His disciples, the God-loving women who followed after Him from the beginning, His Mother, the most holy Virgin Mary, and His brethren-all together about 120 souls returned from the […]
June 13, 2021 Saints and Feasts Commemorated Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council The heresiarch Arius was a Libyan by race and a protopresbyter of the Church of Alexandria. In 315, he began to blaspheme against the Son and Word of God, saying that He is not true God, consubstantial with the Father, […]
June 6, 2021 Saints and Feasts Commemorated Sunday of the Blind Man The Lord Jesus was coming from the Temple on the Sabbath, when, while walking in the way, He saw the blind man mentioned in today’s Gospel. This man had been born thus from his mother’s womb, that is, he had been […]
May 30, 2021 Saints and Feasts Commemorated Sunday of the Samaritan Woman One of the most ancient cities of the Promised Land was Shechem, also called Sikima, located at the foot of Mount Gerazim. There the Israelites had heard the blessings in the days of Moses and Jesus of Navi. Near to this […]
