Beginning of Great Lent is at Hand

A Letter from His Eminence DEMETRIOS, Archbishop of America Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, We are truly blessed to enter once again this sacred and holy season of Great Lent, a time of prayer and reflection, a time of fasting and abstinence, a time of service, and a time of spiritual renewal. We have … [Read more…]

Nativity Meditation

​Christ is Born! Glorify Him! The gates of Eden are opened to the nations, when the Redeemer is born in a cave. O Virgin, you are truly a pure golden censer, the dwelling of the Trinity whom no space can contain.  For in you the Son came to dwell. God’s coming to us at Christmas … [Read more…]

Nativity Meditation

​Christ is Born! Glorify Him! The dark cave of dumb beasts in Bethlehem becomes heaven and is filled with the unwaning, uncreated light of Divinity. Christ is born that our dark souls may be filled with light. “As thou didst deign to lie in a cave and in a manger of irrational beasts, so also … [Read more…]

Nativity Meditation

​Christ is Born! Glorify Him! “But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. —Galatians 4:4-5 Overcome by pity, God was well pleased to lift man … [Read more…]