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 […]
May 23, 2021 Saints and Feasts Commemorated Sunday of the Paralytic Close to the Sheep’s Gate in Jerusalem, there was a pool, which was called the Sheep’s Pool. It had round about it five porches, that is, five sets of pillars supporting a domed roof. Under this roof there lay very many […]
May 13, 2021 To the Reverend Clergy, Parish Council Presidents, Philoptochos Presidents, Archons, Youth, and all the Faithful of the Metropolis of Atlanta: My Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, Χριστός ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη! Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! I greet you with love and joy in the name of our Risen Lord […]
May 16, 2021 Saints and Feasts Commemorated Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women About the beginning of His thirty-second year, when the Lord Jesus was going throughout Galilee, preaching and working miracles, many women who had received of His beneficence left their own homeland and from then on followed after Him. […]
May 9, 2021 Happy Mother’s Day! Saints and Feasts Commemorated Thomas Sunday Though the doors were shut at the dwelling where the disciples were gathered for fear of the Jews on the evening of the Sunday after the Passover, our Saviour wondrously entered and stood in their midst, and greeted […]
May 2, 2021~ Great and Holy Pascha Mary Magdalene, and the other women who were present at the burial of our Saviour on Friday evening, returned from Golgotha to the city and prepared fragrant spices and myrrh, so that they might anoint the body of Jesus. On the morrow, because […]
