The emperor’s orders regarding Christians were simple: "Put to death anyone who calls on the name of the Crucified".
In Thessalonika, proconsul Demetrios, instead of following orders to execute Christians, once a secret Christian, now openly confessed the Christ. It is said that in his teaching zeal he became for Thessalonika "a second Apostle Paul" in the same city where Saint Paul founded the first community of believers (1 Thes., 2 Thes.). Like Paul, Saint Demitrios was also destined by the Lord to martyrdom. At dawn on 26 October 306 Roman soldiers and the holy saint through with spears.
☦️Apolytikion (Third Tone):
The world has found in you a great champion in time of peril, as you emerged the victor in routing the barbarians. For as you brought to naught the boasts of Lyaios, imparting courage to Nestor in the stadium, in like manner, holy one, great Martyr Demetrios, invoke Christ God for us, that He may grant us His great mercy.
In Thessalonika, proconsul Demetrios, instead of following orders to execute Christians, once a secret Christian, now openly confessed the Christ. It is said that in his teaching zeal he became for Thessalonika "a second Apostle Paul" in the same city where Saint Paul founded the first community of believers (1 Thes., 2 Thes.). Like Paul, Saint Demitrios was also destined by the Lord to martyrdom. At dawn on 26 October 306 Roman soldiers and the holy saint through with spears.
☦️Apolytikion (Third Tone):
The world has found in you a great champion in time of peril, as you emerged the victor in routing the barbarians. For as you brought to naught the boasts of Lyaios, imparting courage to Nestor in the stadium, in like manner, holy one, great Martyr Demetrios, invoke Christ God for us, that He may grant us His great mercy.
I told him that the soul could be freed from sinful thoughts only by guarding the mind and cleansing the heart, and that this could be done by the interior prayer. I added that according to the holy Fathers, one who performs saving works simply from the fear of Hell follows the way of bondage, and he who does the same just in order to be rewarded with the Kingdom of Heaven follows the path of a bargainer with God. The one they call a slave, the other a hireling. But God wants us to comne to Him as sons to their Father, He wants us to behave ourselves honourably from love for Him and zeal for His service. He wants us to find our happiness in uniting ourselves with Him in a saving union of mind and heart.”
—from the “Way of a Pilgrim”
—from the “Way of a Pilgrim”
This is considered to be the last photograph of St Nectarios of Aegina (Nov 9/ Nov 23) as he leaves his monastery in Aegina for Aretaieio Hospital, a hospital for the poor in Athens. At his repose, St Nectarios had endured many years of slander, malice, and neglect from ecclesiastical authorities. Hospital workers were shocked to discover that the man dressed in simple monk's clothes was a bishop.
When St Nektarios was the Metropolitan of Pentapolis, the Patriarchate of Alexandria, filled with jealousy toward the saint, told Patriarch Sophronius that Nectarius was plotting to become patriarch himself. St Nektarios was not deposed but was removed from his position and he was placed under severe restrictions without any reason given.
The room where the saint reposed now serves as a chapel for the hospital. As the nurse and the nun who sat with him began to prepare him for burial, they removed his sweater and placed it on the bed of a paralyzed man next to St Nektarios.
When St Nektarios was the Metropolitan of Pentapolis, the Patriarchate of Alexandria, filled with jealousy toward the saint, told Patriarch Sophronius that Nectarius was plotting to become patriarch himself. St Nektarios was not deposed but was removed from his position and he was placed under severe restrictions without any reason given.
The room where the saint reposed now serves as a chapel for the hospital. As the nurse and the nun who sat with him began to prepare him for burial, they removed his sweater and placed it on the bed of a paralyzed man next to St Nektarios.
Immediately, the paralytic got up from his bed, glorifying God.
Saint Nektarios was buried at the Holy Trinity Monastery on Aegina. Several years later, his grave was opened to remove his bones. His body was found whole and incorrupt as if he had been buried that very day.
Saint Nektarios was buried at the Holy Trinity Monastery on Aegina. Several years later, his grave was opened to remove his bones. His body was found whole and incorrupt as if he had been buried that very day.
“The modern world fears and shuns the cross. But the Lord sends a cross for salvation. If there is no cross, there is no resurrection with Christ.”
—Archimandrite (Aghiorite) Methodius (Markovic) of the Serbian Sacred Monastery of Hilandar (Mount Athos)
The Cross of St. George, at the entrance of the city of Kragujevac, Serbia is 18 metres high. The Crucifixion of Christ is on one side, and the icon of St. George on the other. It was blessed by Serbian Patriarch Irinej on July 21, 2010.
—Archimandrite (Aghiorite) Methodius (Markovic) of the Serbian Sacred Monastery of Hilandar (Mount Athos)
The Cross of St. George, at the entrance of the city of Kragujevac, Serbia is 18 metres high. The Crucifixion of Christ is on one side, and the icon of St. George on the other. It was blessed by Serbian Patriarch Irinej on July 21, 2010.
God always was, and always is, and always will be. Or rather, God always Is. For Was and Will be are fragments of our time, and of changeable nature, but He is Eternal Being. And this is the Name that He gives to Himself when giving the Oracle to Moses in the Mount. For in Himself He sums up and contains all Being, having neither beginning in the past nor end in the future; like some great Sea of Being, limitless and unbounded, transcending all conception of time and nature, only adumbrated [intimated] by the mind, and that very dimly and scantily.
☦️ St. Gregory the Theologian
☦️ St. Gregory the Theologian
A miracle of St.Anastasia the Roman (Oct 29/ Nov 11)
In October, 2010 at the University Hospital of Larissa, Greece, a young woman, Georgia, mother of two, was declared brain dead. Her husband and relatives begged St. Anastasia for her intervention, remembering her last words: “Whoever invokes me, my Lord, heal him.”
To the shock of doctors, her neurological image began to show signs of activity and she began to move her hands, baffling doctors. Her husband asked her, “Georgia, who cured you?" With effort, she responded, “Anastasia.” When she left the hospital, the amazed doctors called her “Lazarus.”
The miracle is one of countless miracles of St. Anastasia throughout the centuries, including many in recent times. The Fathers in the monastery of Grigoriou, Mt. Athos, jokingly say that the doctors monastery’s hospital don’t have a job to do because whoever is sick goes first to the icon and relics of St. Anastasia and is healed.
In October, 2010 at the University Hospital of Larissa, Greece, a young woman, Georgia, mother of two, was declared brain dead. Her husband and relatives begged St. Anastasia for her intervention, remembering her last words: “Whoever invokes me, my Lord, heal him.”
To the shock of doctors, her neurological image began to show signs of activity and she began to move her hands, baffling doctors. Her husband asked her, “Georgia, who cured you?" With effort, she responded, “Anastasia.” When she left the hospital, the amazed doctors called her “Lazarus.”
The miracle is one of countless miracles of St. Anastasia throughout the centuries, including many in recent times. The Fathers in the monastery of Grigoriou, Mt. Athos, jokingly say that the doctors monastery’s hospital don’t have a job to do because whoever is sick goes first to the icon and relics of St. Anastasia and is healed.
“If you want to serve God, prepare your heart not for food, not for drink, not for rest, not for ease, but for suffering … for 'by many afflictions is it appointed to us to enter the Kingdom of Heaven'.” (Acts 14:22)
☦️St. Sergius of Radonezh
At the Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh in Kyiv, the icon of the church’s patron saint recently began to stream myrrh.
☦️St. Sergius of Radonezh
At the Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh in Kyiv, the icon of the church’s patron saint recently began to stream myrrh.