Saint Olga of Alaska, the Midwife
Saint Olga, a native of Alaska from the Yupik tribe, was born on February 3, 1916. Her husband, Nikolai Mikhail, was the postman in the village and the […]
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Epiphany
Today the Sun of Righteousness Sheds His Rays Upon the Whole Inhabited World Upon Galilee of the Gentiles, upon the land of Zebulon and the land of Nepthali, as the […]
Sunday before Theophany
(Mark. 1, 1-8) Preparation opens the road In order to begin his work, Christ prepares the ground with the preaching of St. John the Baptist. Without preparation, […]
The custom of the New Year’s cake known as Saint Basel’s pie or Vassilopita in Greece
In the years of emperor Julian the Paravatis, when Byzantium declared war on Persia, Julian passed through Caesarea with his army. He then ordered the whole province […]
Circumcision of the Lord
People who were not just anybody but of great excellence in every respect, such as Holy Augustine of Hippo or Saint Basil and all the members of his family, […]
The Miracle in Syria
In December 2004 a Saudi Arabian man, a Moslem, appeared before several new agencies to relate the following incredible event he experienced and which changed his life […]
”Every man is an image of God ” St. John of Kronstadt
Every man is an image of God, and that all his glory is within him, in his heart. Remember that every man is an image of […]
Christ Lives and Reigns
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1) The Word has existed from the beginning and thus […]
The Feastday of Saint Andrew the Apostle and First called
Sunday 30.11.2014 “Αm I led by the Holy Spirit?” The Holy Spirit, which changed saint Andrew from an ordinary man into an apostle of Christ, is indeed […]
Confession – Εlder Efraim of Arizona
See to it that you are sincere in your deeds as well as in your words, and especially in confession. For God searches out the hearts and reins, 1 […]