April 7, 2025, Saint Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and Apostle to America was born as Vasily Ivanovich Belavin on January 19, 1865 into the family of Ioann Belavin, a rural priest of the Toropetz district of the Pskov diocese. His childhood and adolescence were spent in the village in direct contact with peasants and[…]

  March 31, 2025, “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and lo, I am with[…]

  March 26, 2025, the Archangel Gabriel was chosen by the Lord to announce to the Virgin Mary about the Incarnation of the Son of God from Her, to the great rejoicing of all mankind. Therefore, on the day after the Feast of the Annunciation, the day on which the All-Pure Virgin is glorified, we[…]

  You have slain the snares of the soul and the fleshly passions with the sword of abstinence. You have suppressed thoughts of transgression with the silence of instruction, and with the streams of your tears, you have watered the entire desert and brought forth for us the fruits of repentance. Therefore, we celebrate your[…]

  March 27, 2025, the Holy Martyr Matrona of Thessaloniki suffered in the early centuries of Christianity, when Christianity was a persecuted faith. She was a maidservant of the Jewish woman Pantilla (or Pautilla), wife of one of the military commanders of Thessaloniki. Pantilla constantly mocked her servant for her faith in Christ and tried[…]

  March 21, 2025, I grew up in southwest Detroit, in fact, our house was less than a mile away from Ss. Peter and Paul Cathedral. My family began attending Ss. Peter and Paul in the year 2000; I was seven years old. I remember serving in the Holy Altar, attending church school, and running[…]