Plato was from the town of Ancyra in Galatia. He was a Christian by birth and upbringing. While in his youth, he showed great perfection in every virtue. Plato did not conceal his faith in Christ the Lord, but preached it openly, denouncing idolaters because of their worshiping lifeless objects in place of the[…]

  Commemorated on November 14, The Holy and All-praised Apostle Philip was a native of the city of Bethsaida in Galilee. He had a profound depth of knowledge of the Holy Scripture, and rightly discerning the meaning of the Old Testament prophecies, he awaited the coming of the Messiah. Through the call of the Savior[…]

November 8, 2024, Archbishop Peter (in the world, Paul A. Loukianoff) was born in San Francisco in 1948, of Don Cossack ancestry. His family had lived in China before moving to San Francisco in the 1940’s. Archbishop Peter was an altar boy at the San Francisco cathedral to Archbishop Tikhon (Troitsky) and close to St.[…]

An Early Modern Master of The Orthodox Spiritual Life John A. McGuckin J. A. McGuckin. “Illumined in the Spirit. Studies in Orthodox Spirituality” (vol 3. of the Collected Studies). SVS Press, New York. 2017. pp. 263-280   Many people today have become familiar with the figure of the Russian Pilgrim. The book, The Way of a[…]

November 11th, 2024. Today the Orthodox Commemorates two Warrior Saints, martyrs and wonderworkers for Christ, St. Menas of Egypt and St. Victor of Damascus. In honor of all our faithful Veterans who served God and Country, we pray that your selfless sacrifice reflects upon the nature of the Church as we strive to fight the[…]

  The holy martyr Hieron was born in the city of Tiana in great Cappadocia. Raised by a pious mother, he was a kindly and good Christian. The co-ruling emperors Diocletian (284-305) and Maximian (284-305) sent a large military detachment headed by Lysias to Cappadocia to eradicate Christianity there, and also to conscript healthy and[…]