The Orthodox Church honors and venerates Ever Blessed Virgin Mary as ‘more honourable than the Cherubim and more glorious beyond comparison than the Seraphim……….’ She is placed first among the saints. Her name is commemorated in every service, and her intercession sought before the throne of God, is frequently requested, in hymns Read more…
We are approaching the Fast of Fifteen days, that culminates with the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos (Mother of God), known is the West under the name of the Assumption of St. Mary, (assuming of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary into Heaven by God). This feast is Read more…
Our Church celebrates the Feast of Martha Shmooni (Solomonia) and her seven sons, on August 1. The story Martha Shmooni and her seven sons and their teacher Eleazar, from the Book of 2 Maccabees chapter 6 and 7. After the period of exiles of Israelites to Babylon, before the incarnation Read more…
Here perhaps strangest, most miraculous of all the Saints; Simeon the Stylite. He was born in 389 in a Cappadocian village Sisan (Sis), in Cilicie, a little town near the border of Syria. His father was a shepherd, and he himself spent the first years of its life to keep Read more…
Mary Magdalene is mentioned in all four canonical gospel accounts, where she appears as the first-named of Jesus’ female followers and played an important and pivotal role in Christ’s Ministry. She is mentioned about 12 times in the N. T. and most of the times she is mentioned in the Read more…
The legend of Yulletti (Julitta) and Kuriakos still persists in various forms. We are told that when persecution was raging against Christians under Diocletian (284-305), a wealthy and pious Christian noblewoman named Julitta was widowed with a three-year-old son named Kuriakos (Cyricus). As a Christian, Julitta decided that life in Read more…
Paul is seen as a new being in the Christian Church and an architect who worked hard for building the Church. Paul knew more about the work of Jesus only through relation with the Church and life in the Church. His knowledge of Christ deepened through Church life. He talks Read more…
Saul was brought up as an exact Jew. His religious nature, deep rooted Jewish piety and Jewish faith made him a persecutor of the Christian Church, with a fanatic zeal and raging fury. His aim was to destroy Christian Church. Paul played a vital role in bringing St. Stephen, before Read more…
St. Paul is the invaluable wealth of Christian Church, just after Christ and Scripture. It is said that while Christianity begins with Jesus, there is a second beginning to Christianity in Paul. He who is remembered as the Pharisee who admitted that, ‘I am the first among sinners’, started his Read more…
“I tell you, among those born of women, no one is greater than John…let the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.” Luke 7: 28 St John the Baptist, one of the most prominent and powerful; influential and impressive personality in all history, is this man who Read more…