The Holy Myrrhbearing Women
Models of Fidelity to Truth Today the Holy Orthodox Church, as you know, glorifies the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women, for which reason this Sunday is called the “Sun...
Author: Redpriest
Yes, It is real…
Yes, they are real. In the relics of the saints the Lord Christ has provided us with saving fountains which in many ways pour out benefactions and gush with fra...
Thomas Sunday, Homily Notes
Just notes; not the actual verbatim homily but the gist of it. Christ is Risen! We have heard the Gospel reading today from John. It is a story of the Resurrect...
He was Despised and Rejected of Men
Sigismund Christian Hubert Goetze, 1866-1939 1904 Oil on canvas Source: The Literary Digest 29/10 (1890): 292 According to an article on the painting in Th...
Saint Menas, the Athlete who Resisted
Saint Menas, the Athlete who Resisted by Metropolitan Seraphim of Kastoria (Edited) Saints When St, John Chrysostom spoke of the saints of our Church and their ...
Facts
“Facts are stubborn things,” John Adams once said, “and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictums of our passions, they cannot alter the stat...
Quoting Dante
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
Fear
Where there is no fear there is no need for defensiveness. Judgment relies on fear. So does hate. Hate is wedded to and attached to grudges. A person filled wit...
Funeral Ikos
Words from the service for the burial of priests. Why these bitter words of the dying, O brethren, which they utter as they go hence? I am parted from my brethr...