May 7, 2025, on this day in the year 351, not long after Saint Cyril of Jerusalem had succeeded Maximus as Archbishop of Jerusalem, during the reign of Constantius, the son of Saint Constantine the Great, on the day of Pentecost, the multi-attested sign of the Cross appeared over Jerusalem. Saint Cyril, in his letter[…]

  April 30, 2025, St. Ignatius (Dimitry Alexandrovich Brianchaninov in the world) was born on February 5, 1807, on his father’s estate in the village of Pokrov in the Vologda Province. His mother gave birth to him after a prolonged infertility, by her fervent prayers and travels to the surrounding holy places. The boy spent[…]

  May 8, 2025, the holy Great Martyr Irene was born in the city of Magedon in Persia during the fourth century. She was the daughter of the pagan king Licinius, and her parents named her Penelope. Penelope was very beautiful, and her father kept her isolated in a high tower from the time she[…]

Friday, April 25, 2025, On Friday of Renewal Week we celebrate the consecration of the temple of our Most Holy Lady, the Mother of God of the Life-giving Spring. Furthermore, we commemorate the supra-natural miracles wrought by the Mother of God therein. We commemorate today the manifold great miracles that surpass all nature that were[…]

  May 1, 2025, God is unknowable, but He makes Himself known. Man, with his limited human abilities, cannot know God. He senses His existence, senses some of His attributes, and measures them from the created world, but he never comprehends Him, nor does he know Him with a true, existential knowledge, except through divine[…]