Source: Eparchy of Newton One feature of the Paschal season in Byzantine Churches is the reading of the Acts of the Apostles. Every day, beginning with Pascha itself, this story of the early Church is read at the Divine Liturgy. While the text of Acts itself begins...
The true story of Santa Claus begins with Nicholas, who was born during the third century in the village of Patara. At the time the area was Greek and is now on the southern coast of Turkey. His wealthy parents, who raised him to be a devout Christian, died in...
Source: www.ecsd.net On May 31, 2011, the Board of Trustees of Edmonton Catholic Schools declared the last Friday in November as Holodomor (Ukrainian Famine-Genocide) Memorial Day. The recommendation made to trustees by Bishop David Motiuk of the Ukrainian Catholic...
extract from Praying With Icons by Jim Forest, published by Orbis Book, 1997; revised 2008; endnotes and illustrations have been removed: He is the image [Greek: ikon] of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. — Col 1:15 That … which we have heard and seen...
The Epistle of Ignatius of Antioch to the Philadelphians Greeting Ignatius, who is also called Theophorus, to the Church of God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, which is at Philadelphia, in Asia, which has obtained mercy, and is established in the harmony of...
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