Beloved in Christ, Today the Church rejoices and sings with the angels, for the Queen of Heaven, the Most Holy Theotokos, has fallen asleep in the flesh and has been received into the glory of her Son. The One who bore the Light of the world now rests in […]

“Lift up your eyes to the Cross, O faithful, for in its wood is life, and in its shadow, salvation.” Beloved in Christ, today the Church calls us to venerate the precious Cross of our Lord, and in solemn procession, we follow its path as a sign of triumph, […]

Beloved in Christ, Today, the Church rejoices and is illumined with the radiant light of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ, for on this day we celebrate the Transfiguration, when our Savior took Peter, James, and John up on the high mountain, and there was transfigured before them. […]

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 […]