by user | Jan 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
31st Sunday after Pentecost Text from “The Divine Liturgy: An Anthology for Worship”; Pg. 337 (Tone 3) – Our Venerable Father Xenophon and His Wife Maria and their sons John and Arcadius; Simeon the Elder (300); David III the Renovator King of Georgia (1130)...
by user | Jan 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
The great and glorious Baptist John was beheaded according to the wish and instigation of the wicked Herodias, the wife of Herod. When John was beheaded, Herodias ordered that his head not be buried with his body for she feared that this awesome prophet, somehow,...
by user | Jan 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
Polycarp, this great apostolic man, was born a pagan. St. John the Theologian converted him to the Faith of Christ and baptized him. In his childhood, Polycarp became an orphan and according to a vision in a dream Callista, a noble widow, took him as her own son,...
by user | Jan 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
Pamphilus, the first of the martyrs, was a presbyter of the church at Caesarea in Palestine. He was a learned and devout man who corrected the text of the New Testament from the errors of the various copiers. He alone, recopied this salvific book and gave it to those...
by user | Jan 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
The biography of this martyr Nicephorus clearly demonstrates how God rejects pride and crowns humility and love with glory. There lived in Antioch two close friends, the learned priest Sapricius and the simple ordinary citizen Nicephorus. Somehow, their friendship...
