A pastoral view of the church
Never in history has the question been asked: What is the church? To be answered by defining or defining it. This is because the Church is not a static event […]
Ioannikios the Great, the righteous saint
Saint Ioannikios was born in a village called Merqa in the province of Bithynia. He was raised in piety, but he inherited from his parents their hostility towards icons
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John the Baptist, the glorious forerunner
Saint John the Baptist is the only figure after the Mother of God, Saint Mary, to whom the Church devotes several feasts a year: The Conception
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Hippolytus the Martyr, Bishop of Rome
We know only a little information about the life of Saint Hippolytus of Rome, who was martyred around the year 235. We cannot determine a date.
Saint Ksenia of Petersburg
Saint Ksenia was born in Petersburg, the capital of Tsarist Russia, in the nineteenth century, and was from an aristocratic family. I married a brilliant young man
Simeon the New Theologian, Saint and Righteous
Among the shining stars in the sky of the righteous saints, three are worthy of the title of “theologian”: Saint John the Evangelist, the disciple whom Jesus loved.
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Enocandius, the venerable apostle of Alaska among the saints
His name was John Benjaminov. He was born in 1797 in the villages of the Siberian province of Irkutsk, where he was raised by his uncle after the death of his father. It seemed since
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Self-examination with the Beatitudes
My brothers and fathers, in the previous sermon, we were discussing the nature of watching over oneself, and we left our topic incomplete in order to avoid prolonging the conversation. And now,