On August 20 (August 7), on the second day of the Transfiguration, the Churches following the Julian calendar celebrate the memory of the martyr Dometius of Persia. The saint was a physician and an ascetic. Together with two disciples, he suffered for faith in Christ during the reign of Emperor Julian the Apostate (331-363).[…]
Author: Chris Purdef
Keynote Address by His Eminence Metropolitan Saba at the General Assembly of the 57th Biennial Archdiocese Convention Chicago, Illinois, July 24, 2025
“All things work together for good for those who love God” (Romans 8: 28) 7/30/25, Your Graces the Bishops; reverend members of the clergy; esteemed members of the Board of Trustees; heads of departments; members of The Order of St. Ignatius of Antioch; ladies of the Antiochian Women; our dear young adults; members of[…]
Fr Zacharias Zacharou: The Gift of Speaking in Tongues – How the Holy Spirit initiated the Church into the Spirituality of the Heart
Fr Zacharias Zacharou in his book The Hidden Man of the Heart, explains the gift of speaking in tongues and why it was given to the Church on the day of Pentecost. “We know that the gift of speaking in tongues (glossolalia) was given to the nascent Church for a specific purpose. The old[…]
Our Stance Before God: Elder Symeon Kragiopoulos
July 29, 2025, the question is what stance the soul takes, man’s deeper being, before God, before God’s love, God’s energies, and before any sort of reality. The more you say the prayer “Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me”, the more you want to say it. In the same way, the more we[…]
Address of His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon at the Twenty-First All American Council
In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. On September 16, 1979 a crew of eight men set sail on a three-month expedition which would take them from Saint Malo, a commune in Brittany, on the west coast of France, to the island of South Georgia,[…]
