July 12 ~ St. Veronica
Saint Veronica (also Berenice) is known as the woman who wiped Christ’s face as He carried His cross towards Golgotha and as the woman who Christ cured of...
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Priest Mitrophan and the Boxer Rebellion
Yesterday the Orthodox Church commemorated all the saints of the Church. The feast began as a way to commemorate all of the martyrs and grew into a larger comm...
20 March ~ St. Photini the Samaritan Woman
In many of the encounters of Jesus with other people in the Gospel not much is revealed of them sometimes their name is not even mentioned. That is not th...
St. Brigit on Fasting and Hospitality
Once, St. Brigit and two of her sister nuns were traveling during Lent, and it so happened that they were offered hospitality by a pagan chieftain whose land th...
Prayer to Saint Herman of Alaska
O Almighty God, We praise and glorify You, Our Lord and Creator. All the earth and everything within it acknowledges You as Creator, The Eternal Father. Heaven ...
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine Johnstown Cape Breton On the Roman Catholic calendar today is the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. I have kind of a weird conn...
7 December ~ Ambrose, Bishop of Milan
This Saint was born in Gaul in 340, and was a member of the Roman Senate. After the death of Auxentius, the Arian Bishop of Milan, a violent dispute arose among...
6 December ~ St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra
The truth of things hath revealed thee to thy flock as a rule of faith, an icon of meekness, and a teacher of temperance; for this cause, thou hast achieved the...
30 November ~ Feast of St. Andrew the First Called
Today the Christian world celebrates the Feast of St. Andrew the First Called of the Apostles. This is an interesting feast day for me since it brings two parts...
What Can the Saints Teach Us?
Tikhon of Moscow Yesterday on the Church calendar was the remembrance of the Glorification of St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, Enlightener of Nor...