Come Home for Christmas! Slava Isusu Christu! Glory to Jesus Christ! Metropolitan-Archbishop Stefan Soroka invites all to “Come Home for Christmas” A 5 minute video entitled “Come Home for Christmas” has been produced in both English and...
The Nativity in the Flesh of our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ: GREAT VESPERS WITH DIVINE LITURGY OF SAINT BASIL THE GREAT – Dec 24. This evening Liturgy is the first Eucharist of Christmas. Fully vested the priest insences the entire temple as usual and...
Sunday before the Nativity of Christ Tone 6; The Holy Great-Martyr Anastasia and her children Evodus and Eutychius (305); Hebrews 11:9-10 17-23 32-40; Matthew 1:1-25
Two Sundays before Christmas – Sunday of the Holy Ancestors; The Holy Prophet Haggai (Aggee) (6th c. BC); December 16. Text from “The Divine Liturgy: An Anthology for Worship”; Pgs. 345 (Tone 5) & 741 (SHF).
Theodosius was the first founder and organizer of the cenobitic way of monastic life. He was born in the province of Cappadocia in the village of Mogarissus of devout parents. As a child, he visited St. Simeon the Stylite who blessed him and prophesied great and...