The life of the saints is the life of Christ himself, continuing throughout the ages. We are united to them on the basis of the human nature that Christ reformed through his incarnation, death and resurrection. In the divine liturgy, and especially the Eucharist, we participate in the life of Christ and its events and in the life of the saints, because we are all one body, Christ, the saints and ourselves, and we are all “one in Christ Jesus.”
He is John of Sinai, named after Sinai, and he was named Al-Sulami because he wrote the book “The Ladder of Virtues.” Saint John of the Ladder was born in Palestine around
He is Father Youssef bin Girgis Musa bin Muhanna Al-Haddad (1), known, for short, as Father Youssef Muhanna Al-Haddad. He is of Beirut origin.
Archbishop Mitrofan was distinguished as a venerable preacher, an able administrator, an active worker in the church vineyard, and a man of prayer. His name was in the world
He was born in a town called Furla, close to the city of Izmir (currently Türkiye). He worked as a coppersmith. When he was eighteen years old
The life of our righteous father in Saints Gregory Palamas, the miraculous and brilliant archbishop of Thessaloniki in the fourteenth century. He wrote a biography
The Mass known as “Pre-sanctified” is attributed to him, which is held during the days of Great Lent, except for Saturdays and Sundays. He is called Saint
أحد الفريسي والعشار: اللهم أعطنا نعمة الواضع الفرّيسي من هو؟ هو ذاك الذي إذا قيس بغيره من اليهود تميّز بمعرفته كتابه
He was born in a village in Bithynia around the year 1020 AD. He studied and learned, by the grace of God, to belittle the passing women and ask for the rest. His family wanted to
We now enter into the holiest week of the year (23). It is at the forefront of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem, which along with the resurrection of Lazarus constitutes an introduction
Fasting, in its exclusive sense, ends on the Friday following the fifth Sunday of Lent, when the forty-day period ends. The period of pain extends
One cannot prove with certainty what share history has and what share superstition has in the traditions concerning the saint (Mary of Egypt).
