The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Mark 2:1-12 On this the Second Sunday of Great and Holy Lent, we commemorate our Father among the saints Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (Thessaloniki). The gospel that is given to us is meant to guide us and inform us regarding the special character of this […]
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He was once called “the cause of all disorders and disturbances in the Church.” Now imagine that he was called this by the Patriarch of Constantinople himself. The year is 1344. This comment was made during a Church council and it caused this man to be thrown into prison for the next 4 years. The […]
Today I would like to focus on one of the saints of the day: St. Kyriakos (Cyriacus) the hermit of Palestine. In the United States of America we are obsessed with freedom in a way that is not seen in the rest of the world. We have the freedom to own and use guns. We […]
