Year 2019

How to Ring in the New Year…

Beginning of the Ecclesiastical Year In today’s Gospel passage we hear: Luke 4:16-22 (Gospel, New Year)16So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day,…

The Holy Cincture or Sash of the Mother of God

The Placing of the Venerable Belt of the Most Holy Theotokos in a church of Constantinople’s Chalcoprateia district took place during the reign of the emperor Theodosius the Younger. Before this, the holy relic entrusted to the Apostle Thomas by…