October 27, 2025, it is indicative that the first Japanese convert to Orthodoxy and the first Orthodox Christian priest from among the Japanese people was a samurai. It is likewise also indicative that in the epoch when Japanese society was doing away with the caste of the samurai in the name of modernization, the first[…]

  October 21, 2025, to follow God, one must first see Him. We can only see Him in another human. When we continue to look for Him tirelessly and plead fervently for His mercy, He will reveal Himself to us. We come to Church. We see it as a large workshop, where God restores man[…]

  October 15, 2025, the icon of the Holy Theotokos “Multiplier of Wheat” – commemorated on 28 October – stands out among all the other images of Her present in the liturgical calendar of our Church. It brings together in a remarkable way the heaven and the earth, the sublime and the mundane. The icon is[…]

  October 20, 2025, the holy, glorious martyr Artemios came from a noble family and was highly regarded by Emperor Constantine the Great, who promoted him to the rank of Patrician and appointed him Military Governor (dux augustalis) of Alexandria and of all Egypt (c. 330). Despite his high appointment and responsibilities, Artemios did not[…]

  October 13, 2025, the New Virgin-Martyr and undefiled bride of the Heavenly King, Christ God, was from the village of Slatena of the district of Meglen which lies near the border of Serbia and Bulgaria in Aegean Macedonia. She was of a poor family, being one of four daughters. Yet she was rich in[…]