I greet you with joy, my beloved brother and concelebrant, on this luminous occasion, the day of your enthronement as Metropolitan of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North…
The Gospel we read in church on this mid-feast of Pentecost tells of a time that Jesus, during his earthly ministry, stood up in the temple and taught. The icon…
On many icons of Saint John the Theologian, the saint sits with his Gospel open but a hand clasped over his mouth, guarding his silence. This image reminds us that, even though…
“The Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he will testify of me, and you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.” ...
Saint Alexis Toth was canonized in 1995. Among the evidence for his holiness was a miracle whereby his prayers reunited a father and his long-lost son. This…
Time and again, the hymns of this joyous season point out that the myrrh-bearers were a little confused: Nicodemus had already buried the Body of the Lord with about a hundred pounds of myrrh…
According to Saint Gregory the Theologian, Thomas Sunday—which he called New Sunday—is an even greater feast than Pascha. On Easter, we celebrated the rising of Christ…
Christ is risen! Indeed he is risen! In the darkness of earliest morning, our churches shining with festal light, we heard at Matins the wonderful Paschal,,,
“Moses the great mystically prefigured this present day, saying: ‘And God blessed the seventh day.’” In ancient times, catechumens were not permitted to read the…
On Christmas Day, the feast of the Nativity, we saw him born in a cave, in the silence of the night, when the whole world became still at his presence. We saw…