Detroit, January 13, 2025 Photo: domoca.org Orthodox Christians in Detroit celebrated the Feast of Theophany this year with the first blessing of the Detroit River in recent years. The gathering united faithful from multiple parishes across the Detroit metropolitan area, including Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Holy Trinity (Detroit), Holy Transfiguration (Livonia), and St….
Author: Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye Date: Monday January 13, 2025 Topic: God Tests Memorise: “Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing as unto a faithful Creator.” – 1Peter 4:19 Read: Genesis 22:1-12 1. Now it came to pass after these…
Vatican City – The Vatican has approved new guidelines from Italian bishops permitting gay men to enter seminaries, provided they abstain from sexual activity. This marks a notable shift in the Catholic Church’s approach to the admission of homosexual individuals into the priesthood. The guidelines, published quietly on the Italian bishops’ conference website on Thursday,…
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. We greet you with the continuing days of celebrating the Nativity of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ. The Evangelist John, recounting Christ’s final conversation with His disciples, brings us the words of the Divine Teacher: A woman…
Photo: aif.ru It was a long time ago—in the olden days. I can hardly believe it, but, nevertheless, it really did happen. At that time, Grandfather Frost was idly wandering around Holy Russia.1 He was such a mischievous old man—now he would freeze off someone’s nose, now someone’s ear, for no reason at all….
Archimandrite Gherasim (Iscu) On July 11–12, 2024, by the decision of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church, sixteen saints of God who shone forth in the twentieth century were canonized. One of them is Archimandrite Gherasim (Iscu), Hesychast of the Communist DungeonsAnd then I saw a miracle. I saw how a half-dead priest,…
The Nativity of Christ and Holy Pascha are primarily children’s feasts, and they seem to fulfill the power of Christ’s words: Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven (Mt. 18:3). The other feasts are not so accessible to children’s understanding and are pleasing…
Concord, New Hampshire, December 31, 2024 Photo: gtv-cdn.com The local Satanic Temple’s blasphemous display outside the State House in Concord, New Hampshire, has been attacked and destroyed several times by numerous people, including local Orthodox Christian Joshua Cummings. Cummings was apprehended by police last week but says his conscience is clean. “What does it…
Belyaevsky, Odessa Province, Ukraine, December 31, 2024 Fr. Evgeny, Matushka Anna, and their first daughter. Photo: Facebook A priest of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church who was forcibly drafted a week and a half ago has been released. On December 21, on his way home from visiting his wife in the hospital where she had…
Staroe Sandovo, Tver Province – A priest of the Bezhetsk Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church tragically perished in a fire over the weekend. A fire broke out in a residential building in the village of Staroe Sandovo, Tver Province, on Sunday evening. The body of Archpriest Vyacheslav Zernov of the local Church of the Nativity…
