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  • ▼  2013 (323)
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      • Hypocrisy: The Illness of our Time
      • Should A Child Fast?
      • Holy Monday - Freedom That Alters
      • "The Passion of the Christ": An Orthodox Perspecti...
      • Robert Powell and His Portrayal of Jesus
      • What Do the Palm Branches Signify?
      • St. Luke of Crimea: On Palm Sunday
      • What Happened to Lazarus After He Rose From the De...
      • Tombs in the Holy Land and the Tomb of St. Lazarus...
      • Prayers Needed for Saint Lazarus Monastery in Beth...
      • Serbia, Kosovo and the Church: Physician, Heal Thy...
      • Great Lent Resource Page
      • An Ecclesiastical Great Lent and Holy Week
      • The Crackpot Conspiracy Theories of Alex Jones
      • Spiritual Dialogue With Elder Michael the Hermit o...
      • Fundamentalism and Tradition
      • Syria's Beleaguered Christians
      • Conspiracy Theory Flowchart
      • A Cross Wondrously Appears in the Trunk of a Tree
      • Picture of Elder Thaddeus Weeps at His Grave (vide...
      • St. Gregory Palamas on the Fifth Sunday of Lent
      • New Hieromartyr Sabbas, Who Was Skinned Alive By t...
      • Repentance, the Fourth Mystery
      • Holy New Martyrs of Jasenovac Concentration Camp
      • Behold, We Go Up To Jerusalem
      • The Theotokos and Ancestral Sin
      • Louis Tikas: A Greek-American Hero
      • Liturgical Clarifications Concerning the Akathist ...
      • "The Bethlehemite Is Killing Me": A Reflection on ...
      • The Boundaries Between Faith and Religious Charlat...
      • Blessed Are the Enemy-makers
      • Media Consensus on Climate Alarmism Cracking
      • Elder Paisios: Never Say "They Will Answer to God"...
      • Insights on True Repentance
      • Prayers to the Patron Saint of Boston
      • Message of Metropolitan Methodios on the Boston Tr...
      • Doing Theology While Subject to the Passions
      • General Spiritual Advice Is Generally Not Received...
      • Those Who Wish To Learn the Will of the Lord
      • Heretic Theologians and the Good News of Christ
      • Making Ancient and Byzantine Mosaics (video)
      • Only by Prayer and Fasting
      • Great Lent and Its Opportunities
      • The Priesthood, Confession and the Remission of Si...
      • A Miracle of the Holy Cross in Africa (Congo) 2
      • A Miracle of the Holy Cross in Africa (Congo) 1
      • Archbishop Iakovos on Spiritualism, Materialism an...
      • Prerequisites For True Spirituality
      • A Miracle of the Holy Cross in India
      • A Miracle of the Holy Cross in Fiji
      • Movie Review: "Beyond the Hills" (An Orthodox Chri...
      • Fasting Resource Page
      • Let Him Deny Himself, Take Up His Cross, and Follo...
      • The Ontology of the Papacy
      • Money! Power! Honor!
      • President Obama Reflects On His Trip to the Holy L...
      • The Experience of Uncreated Light
      • Who Really Is A Bigot?
      • The Way of Purification, Illumination and Theosis
      • What Are "Offerings" and "Vows"? (On Tamata)
      • A Controversy on God and the Orthodox Response
      • Tracing the Origins of the Presanctified Liturgy
      • From the Post-Modern Persona to the Person
      • The Secret of the Metropolitan Who Died at the Fee...
      • "Lord Have Mercy" by St. Justin Popovich
      • St. Gregory Palamas Celebrated in Thessaloniki (ph...
      • Saint Evlogius the Prophet and Fool for Christ
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SAINTS & FEASTS


JANUARY

1 - On the Circumcision of our Lord Jesus Christ

1 - Basil the Great and Disfigured Christianity

1 - A New Year's Eve Story by Photios Kontoglou

2 - Saint Seraphim and Russia

2 - Cartoon of St. Seraphim of Sarov

4 - The Righteous Nikephoros the Leper (1890-1964)

4 - Synaxis of the Holy Seventy Apostles

8 - Saint Agathon of Egypt

10 - Saint Theophan the Recluse

13 - Saint Maximus Kavsokalyvites on Noetic Prayer

14 - Saint Nina the Equal to the Apostles and Enlightener of Georgia

15 - The Life of Saint Paul of Thebes

16 - The Apostle Peter's Miraculous Chains

17 - A Trek to Saint Anthony's Monastery in Egypt

17 - Saint George the New Martyr of Ioannina

17 - Saint Anthony the New, Wonderworker of Beroia

19 - Miracle of St. Basil the Great Against the Arians

19 - "Papoulakos": Righteous Christoforos Panagiotopoulos

20 - The Teachings of St. Euthymius the Great

20 - Saint Zacharias the New Martyr of Patras

21 - Life of Saint Maximus the Confessor

21 - Maximus the Confessor on the Church and Gospel

24 - Saint Xenia the Fool for Christ of St. Petersburg

25 - St. Gregory the Theologian's Principles of Theology

26 - Saints Xenophon, His Wife Mary, and Their Sons John and Arcadius

27 - Translation of the Relics of St. John Chrysostom

28 - Saint Ephraim the Syrian

28 - The Testament of Saint Ephraim the Syrian

28 - St. James the Ascetic: Who Murdered Yet Did Not Despair

29 - Transfer of the Relics of St. Ignatius the God-Bearer

29 - The Spirituality of Andrei Rublev's Icon of the Holy Trinity

29 - Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev"

30 - History of the Feast of the Three Hierarchs

30 - The Bogomils and the Three Hierarchs

30 - Finding of the Panagia Evangelistria Icon in Tinos

30 - The Relationship Between a Saint and an Emperor

31 - Saints Cyrus and John the Unmercenaries

31 - Saint Arsenios the New of Paros

31 - Holy New Martyr Elias Ardounis

FEBRUARY

1 - The Veneration of St. Tryphon in the Roman Empire

1 - Sts. Perpetua, Felicitas and Those With Them

1 - The Newly-Revealed Four Martyrs of Megara

1 - Saint Brigid (Bridget) of Ireland

2 - Origins of the Feast of the Presentation of Christ

2 - St. Sophronius of Jerusalem's Candlemas Sermon

2 - Does the Pure One Have Need of Purification?

3 - A Miracle of St. Symeon the God-Receiver

3 - Mission Notes: Saint Nicholas of Japan

29 - The Legacy of John Cassian in East and West

MARCH

2 - Where St. Nicholas Planas Liturgized Daily

2 - The Enthroned (or "Reigning") Mother of God Icon

30 - The Man of God from Judah

APRIL

1 - St. Mary of Egypt: A Soldier of Christ

MAY

1 - Saint Nikephoros of Chios: Life and Sayings

19 - Parole Hearing of Fr. John Karastamatis

JUNE

12 - St. Peter the Athonite and the Demons

JULY

1 - The Relationship Between Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi and the Holy Unmercenary Saints

AUGUST

2 - St. Basil the Fool for Christ: A Russian Cartoon

3 - Prophet Ezekiel's Tomb To Be Turned Into Mosque

15 - Nea Moni in Chios and Panagia Neomonitissa

SEPTEMBER

1 - September 1: The Ecclesiastical New Year

OCTOBER

19 - The Relationship Between a Saint and an Emperor

NOVEMBER

9 - Apartment of St. Nektarios in Cairo

9 - A Miracle of Saint Nektarios in Jordan

9 - Saint Nektarios and the Military Officer

13 - Contemporary Miracles of St. John Chrysostom

23 - Bulgarians Return Relics of St. Dionysios I to Greece

29 - Official Glorification of Hieromartyr Philoumenos of Jacob's Well

DECEMBER

3 - Saint Theodoulos the Stylite

SECULAR HOLIDAYS

October 28 - Why We Celebrate OHI (OXI) Day in Greek Orthodoxy: The Virgin Mary and World War 2

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