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Life of Macrina by Gregory of Nyssa - 07/31/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

St. Macrina was born to a holy family: her parents were Ss. Basil the Elder and Emily; four of her nine brothers and sisters are commemorated as saints: Basil the Great, Peter of Sebaste, Gregory of Nyssa, and Theosebia the Deaconess; her grandmother, for whom she was named, is commemorated as St. Macrina the Elder.


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Saint Marina the Great Martyr and Vanquisher of Demons - 07/30/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

The Archangel Michael appeared and said: "Great is your faith, Marina. Have more strength, for it is by your good confession that your soul will survive, and you will gain the holy baptism."


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The Oldest Athonite Monk Has Reposed - 07/30/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

Today, Sunday 29 July 2012, the oldest living monk on Mount Athos reposed in the Lord. Fr. John of Hilandari was 105 years old.


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Sunday of the Fathers of the First Six Councils - 07/28/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

The Holy Fathers of the Ecumenical Councils are honored by the Church because, based upon the preaching of the Apostles, they have established one faith for the Church.


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The Holy Equal-To-The-Apostles Prince Vladimir - 07/28/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

Spoken on July 15, 1899 by the holy Patriarch Tikhon the Confessor, during his tenure as Archbishop of the Aleutian Islands and Alaska


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Why We Celebrate the Archangel Gabriel's Synaxis Twice - 07/26/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

The day after the feast of the Annunciation the Orthodox Church celebrates Archangel Gabriel. Yet on July 13th we find ourselves celebrating another Synaxis in honor of the Archangel Gabriel.


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Great Martyr Euphemia and Holy Blessed Princess Olga - 07/23/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

a homily by St. John of Shanghai
Belgrade, 1928


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Saint Anthony of the Kiev Caves - 07/23/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

The virtuous life of St Anthony illumined the Russian land with the beauty of monasticism.


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Hieromartyr Pankratios, Bishop of Taormina - 07/22/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios

In the life of Saint Pankratios we see the close relationship between faith, baptism, asceticism, the hierarchy, and martyrdom.


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Sts. Prokopios and Constantine, Protectors of Orthodox Marriage - 07/21/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

In the blessing at the conclusion of the Holy Matrimony service, the prayers of St. Prokopios and those of Sts. Emperors Constantine and Helen are requested


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Saint Prokopios the Great Martyr - 07/20/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

When Diocletian launched the last and most ruthless persecution against Christians, his first victim in Palestine was a young man named Prokopios (Procopius).


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Russian Church Opens Mission in Pakistan - 07/19/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) has founded a mission in Pakistan.


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Over 40,000 gather to honor Royal Martyrs - 07/17/12
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Miracles of the Royal Martyrs - 07/16/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

From that time on we often appealed to the Holy Tsar Nicholas, and help came immediately under extraordinary circumstances. O Holy Royal Martyrs, pray to God for us!


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Crown Jewels: The Royal Children-Martyrs - 07/16/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

The Romanov children were beautiful - not only in their outward appearance, which was striking, but primarily in their inner qualities...pious, God-fearing and endowed with all manner of Christian virtue.


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The Placing of the Honorable Robe of the Mother of God - 07/15/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

"you have given your sacred robe as a garment of incorruption to all the faithful"


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St. Juvenaly of Alaska - 07/15/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

St Juvenal was a member of the first mission sent from Russia to proclaim the Gospel in the New World.


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How The Lord Chose His Twelve Apostles - 07/13/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

By St. Cyril of Alexandria
"And when it was day, He called His disciples to Himself; and from them He chose twelve, whom He also named apostles." (Lk 6: 13)


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Sts. Peter and Paul, Foremost of the Holy Apostles - 07/12/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

First in prominence among the Apostles, and teachers to the Universe


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The Apostle Peter, A Greater Philosopher Than Plato - 07/12/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

By St. John Chrysostom


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An Introduction to the Epistles of the Apostle Paul - 07/12/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

By St. John Chrysostom


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St. Sampson the Hospitable - 07/10/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

Thou didst persevere unceasingly in prayer; thou didst love the poor, and didst provide for them in all things.


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Joanna the Myrrh-Bearer - 07/10/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

Wife of King Herod's steward went to the Sepulchre to anoint the Holy Body of the Lord


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Venerable Nikon the Confessor of Optina - 07/07/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

Elder Nikon of Optina was glorified with all the Elders of Optina by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in 1990.


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The Nativity of St. John the Baptist - 07/06/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

Homily of Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco


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St. Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely - 07/06/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

Venerable Mother Etheldreda, daughter of King Anna of East Anglia, founded Ely Abbey


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Monastic Life in the Judean Wilderness - 07/06/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

These monks abandoned all their possessions and families (Mark 10:17-31) to live a life of chastity, fasting and asceticism in the desert.


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Saint Eusebius, Bishop of Samosata - 07/05/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

The Hieromartyr Eusebius stood firmly for the Orthodox Confession of Faith proclaimed at the First Ecumenical Council at Nicea in the year 325.


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St. Alban Protomartyr of Britain - 07/05/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

... lest Britain be totally plunged into the thick gloom of black night, He kindled for us the brilliant lamps of the holy martyrs...


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Saint Julian of Cilicia - 07/05/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

You were clad in the armor of the Spirit, entering the contest and destroying the enemy.


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Sermon of Hieromonk John (Maximovich) - 07/02/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

on his election as Bishop of Shanghai
Belgrade, May 27, 1934


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Holy Apostle Jude - 07/02/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

Jude was the brother of St. James and son of St. Joseph, Betrothed to the Theotokos.


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Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) Lectures on the Jesus Prayer - 07/02/12
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Last updated: 2017-07-02 03:00:41

Friday, June 22, 2012 at St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Washington, DC


   
 
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