Feast Day ~ July 16 The Church’s calendar of saints provides us with wonderful examples of those who lived according to the teachings given to us in the Holy Scriptures. St. Julia of Carthage is one who was able to courageously face a life of slavery and the death of a martyr by following those […]
St. Joseph of Damascus
Feast Day ~ July 10 Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes, and I shall keep it unto the end. Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall keep it with my whole heart. [Ps. 119:33, 34] The thirst for knowledge is often very great, and when that thirst […]
St. Kilian, Apostle of Franconia
Feast Day ~ July 8 We have heard this story before: a well-educated young man of noble birth decides to reject the family wealth and political aspirations and become a monk. Then, after years of prayer, fasting, meditation, and study of Holy Scripture he feels moved to leave the familiarity of his native land and […]
Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Apostles to the Slavs
(Feast Day ~ July 5) Christianity has always been a family affair: as St. Andrew, who told his brother Simon (Peter) about Jesus, and the brothers James and John were among the leaders of the early Church, this sibling sharing of the Christian life continued with the holy unmercenaries Ss. Cosmas and Damian, with the […]
St. Elizabeth the New Martyr
(Feast Day ~ July 5) In this turned-upside-down world of ours, God sometimes provides us with examples of holiness in seemingly unlikely places. We are given a saint – an advocate in Heaven – whose path to sanctity was unusual. The household of a German Grand Duke and his wife, a princess, would rarely be […]
July – August Newsletter
As the summer months of July and August begin, with many traveling far and wide for vacations and visits to family (and camp at Antiochian Village), please remember to plan your trips to include a visit to an Orthodox Church for Sunday services. Fr. Nicholas can recommend Antiochian parishes; and remember to contact the priest […]
Transfiguration
Will will sing Vespers daily at 6pm from 1 August to 15 August. We will keep the feast of the Dormition on Saturday, 8/15, with Matinsat 9:30am and Sung Mass at 10am.
St. Phocas, the Gardener
Feast day ~ July 3 We are reminded many times in Holy Scripture and in the witness of the saints that the Christian way of life is for all people and that God makes no distinctions among his children. There is neither rich nor poor, high or low estate, “neither slave nor free, there is […]
St. John the Wonderworker
Feast Day ~ July 2 Michael, the son of Boris and Glafira Maximovitch, who was born in 1896 (in a village in what is now Ukraine), had several reasons to live a life of bitterness and sorrow. The first reason was ill health. Michael was sickly from birth, suffering from digestive difficulties. But the limits […]
From a Sermon by St. Ambrose of Milan
When the angel revealed his message to the Virgin Mary he gave her a sign to win her trust. He told her of the motherhood of an old and barren woman to show that God is able to do all that he wills. When she hears this Mary sets out for the hill country. She does […]
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