Orthodox America; Issue 10; Vol. I, No. 11-12 This modern saint, a veritable mountain of virtue, was born Anastasios Kephala, on October 1, 1816, in Silyvria, Greece. Even in childhood he began to shine with the Christ like meekness that in adulthood made him a beacon of grace and light, Because his parents were poor,…
July 22 Little is known of the early life of St. Mary. She was called “Magdalene” because she lived in the town of Magdala on the shore of the sea of Galilee, In the Bible we read that she was afflicted with an incurable disease: she was possessed by seven devils (Lk. 8:2). This was…
Orthodox America; Issue 9; Vol. I, No. 10 One of the last holy Elders and transmitters of the Valaam ascetic heritage, Abbot Philemon belonged to that group of confessors who were deported when they refused to accept the New Calendar forced upon them by the Soviet Church. Fr. Philemon joined Archbishop Vitaly’s brotherhood in Czechoslovakia…
The lives of the saints as well as their writings are one of the ways that we learn about the spiritual life. In reading attentively the lives of saints, one of the first things we learn is that the saints are neither distinctively Rus Man or Greek (nor any other nationality); they are at all…
Orthodox America; Issue 7; Vol. I, No. 8 Commemorated Sep. 24 and February 6 Troparion, Tone 8 In thee, O mother, was truly preserved what is according to the image of God; for, having taken up they cross, thou didst follow after Christ, and thou didst teach in act to despise the flesh for it passeth…
Orthodox America; Issue 7; Vol. I, No. 8 354-431Commemorated June 15 Thou, Lord abidest forever, and Thou art not angry with us forever because Thou hast pity on our dust and ahses, and it was pleasing in Thy sight of reform my deformity. Inside me Thy good was working on me to make me restless…
Orthodox America; Issue 7; Vol. I, No. 8 225-395 Commemorated January 10 Love is the foremost of all excellent achievements and the first of the commandments of the Law…the life of God consists in the eternal practice of love; and this life is wholly beautiful, possessed of a loving disposition toward beauty and never receiving…
Orthodox America; Issue 6; Vol. I, No. 7 293-373 One of the greatest Fathers of the Eastern Church, St. Athanasius spent his whole life defending the truth of Orthodoxy against the Arian heresy, which in denying the Divinity of Jesus Christ took away from mankind the salvation which only God Incarnate Himself can give to…
Orthodox America; Issue 6; Vol. I, No. 7 +450 Commemorated May 24 A leading theologian of the Church of Gaul in the 5th century, St. Vincent settled in the island monastery of Lerins off the southern coast of France in order that “avoiding the concourse and crowds of cities… I can follow without distraction the…
Orthodox America; Issue 6; Vol. I, No. 7 As a merchant from various lands gathers various goods, and brings them into his house and treasures them there, likewise a Christian can collect from the world soul-saving thoughts, and . by collecting them in the treasury of his heart can form his soul. Such is the…
