Beloved in Christ, Today, the Church shines forth with a radiant light, for we celebrate the holy Archangel Uriel, the bearer of God’s wisdom and illumination. As the Scriptures teach us, “For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding” (Proverbs 2:6). Uriel, whose name means […]

Beloved in Christ, Today the Church rejoices in radiant splendor, for she beholds the rising of a great light in the northern lands: Saint Vladimir, Equal-to-the-Apostles, the prince who clothed a people in baptismal white and turned a nation from shadow to dawn. Once, he walked in the twilight […]

Of pious memory is Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia,who bore the weight of earthly rule amid trial and upheaval,and stood as a son of the ancient Church of Ethiopia in days of testing. Raised within a land hallowed by apostolic memory,He labored to preserve the dignity of his […]

Beloved in Christ, Today the Church is clothed in radiant joy, for she lifts up before us Mary Magdalene, the first witness of the Resurrection, the myrrh-bearing disciple, and the one whom the risen Lord Himself called by name. Once bound by darkness, she now stands in the unsetting […]

Beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, Today, the Church lifts before our eyes the radiant image of Saint Veronica,the woman whose hands dared to touch God,whose cloth dared to receive the Face of the Invisible One,whose compassion stood firm where fear had fled. Behold the road to Golgotha:dust and […]