The world around us believes—and always has believed—that happiness comes through power, through control, through wealth. The world teaches us that happiness is born of the ability to satisfy one’s own desires. In the Church, however, we know a greater happiness, the happiness of thanksgiving. This does not mean giving thanks just for the[…]

  November 22, 2024, Hendersonville, North Carolina Mission progress has been improving steadily for Fr. Photios. Recently, St. Athony’s Mission had 25 new visitors at Wednesday’s Divine Liturgy with his mission now totally 56 parishioners, 20 of which are children. A recent development for Fr. Photios is that he has been in talks with a[…]

  God has been very good to us at St. Jacob of Alaska Orthodox Christian Mission this summer! Since our mission was founded in August of 2021 we had been using a portable folding Altar Table on loan from the Michigan Deanery. In late 2023 the mission started a special collection to build a permanent[…]

The name of the holy scriptures is derived from the Greek word “Biblia,” which literally means “books.” This term passed into most languages, and it was called the “Bible” in languages of European origin. The faithful regard the holy scriptures as God’s personal message to them, devoting themselves to reading them daily, and meditating on[…]

Commemorated November 21. When the Most-holy Virgin Mary reached the age of three, her holy parents Joachim and Anna took her from Nazareth to Jerusalem to dedicate her to the service of God according to their earlier promise. It was a three-day journey from Nazareth to Jerusalem but, traveling to do a God-pleasing work, this[…]

  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[…]