RECOMMENDATIONS FOR GREAT LENT 2025

The Orthodox Church has established several ways to prepare ourselves for the greatest of all feasts, the Holy Pascha.  We are not “making up” for past sins. We are not “making sacrifices” to or for God.  Instead, we use the 6 weeks of Great Lent and Holy Week, which...

The Sunday of the Fathers

SAINT OF THE DAY: SAINTS OF THE DAY: The Sunday of the Fathers is the Sunday before the Nativity of the Lord (December 18-24). On this day the Church honors all those who were well-pleasing to God from all ages, from Adam to St. Joseph the Betrothed of the Most...

Venerable Nikon the Dry, of the Kyiv Near Caves

SAINT OF THE DAY: On the second Sunday before the Nativity we commemorate all the great Fathers and Mothers, Prophets and Judges of the  Old Testament, starting with  Adam,  Abraham, the Righteous Sarah, Isaac and  Jacob, including Holy Prophet  Elias and  Daniel, and...