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.[…]

  In my daily quest for spiritual guidance on the Internet, I came across this article written by the Archpriest Panayiotis Papageorgiou. Although written in 2016, the words are still relevant to us today in our search for The Truth. Through the prayers of the Most Holy Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary. Many times, discussions[…]

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[…]

A well-known and esteemed American priest recently spoke on the topic of the use of appropriate terminology for describing Orthodox clergy, both priests and bishops. Since many issues from secular society present themselves in the life of the Church, it has also become common to use secular labels (all too familiar in political discourse) to[…]