Apostle Timothy - 01/21/12

He could have remained silent.

He could have remained safely in the shadows - while the noisy proces­sion of drunken pagans went thundering past, caught up in the throes of an idolatrous festival dedicated to the worship of an alien god named Artemis.

The Nativity of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ - 12/25/11

The Christmas story is well-known from the witness of Holy Scripture:

In those days a decree went out front Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be enrolled, each to his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be enrolled with Mary his betrothed, who was with child. And while they were there, the time came for her to be delivered. And she gave birth to her first-born Son and wrapped Him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn [Luke 2:1-7].

The Holy Supper - 12/24/11

Christmas customs among the Orthodox people are simple, yet beautiful and rich with meaning. Among these customs is the Holy Supper which is served on Christmas Eve. We must emphasize, however, that the traditions which follow are not necessarily followed in every detail by every family that serves the Holy Supper, for Orthodoxy is rich in its diversity.

St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (Dec. 6) - 12/06/11

Saint Nicholas, the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia is famed as a great saint pleasing unto God. He was born in the city of Patara in the region of Lycia (on the south coast of the Asia Minor peninsula), and was the only son of pious parents Theophanes and Nonna, who had vowed to dedicate him to God.

Prophet Nahum - 11/29/11

Born of the tribe of Simeon, this far-seeing holy man spent most of his life in the Elkosh region of Galilee. Nahum lived about 200 years after the Prophet Jonah delivered his eleventh-­hour warnings to the morally corrupt city of Ninevah, the capital of the Assyrian Empire. Jonah's mission had been successful (if temporarily interrupted by an incident in which he was swallowed by a whale), and the people of Ninevah had repented just in time to avert wholesale destruction.

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