Month March 2020

Feasts, Icons

Theotokos of Kursk Icon – March 8

The Kursk-Root Icon of Out Lady of the Sign The Kursk-Root Icon is one the most ancient icons of the Russian Orthodox Church.

March 20, 2020

Tribulations, gloomy mountain and the Holy Cross

Prayers/Services, Scripture, To Ponder

The Gloomy Mountains and the Lifting of the Banner- The Holy Cross

The Holy Cross is our banner on the gloomy mountain

March 20, 2020

Catacomb Church, In Greek, Orthodox History, True Orthodoxy

Ὁ Ἅγιος Πατριάρχης Τύχων

March 19, 2020

Food for the Orthodox

For Those No Oil Days! Crispy Vegan Buffalo Cauliflower Bites | Forks Over Knives

I did this recipe on Monday, but with just simple flour and spices. It works! Delicious, plant-based, and oil-free: what’s not to love? Get our tried-and-true vegan buffalo cauliflower bites recipe here. Source: Crispy Vegan Buffalo Cauliflower Bites | Forks…

March 18, 2020

Saints

St. Carthage (Carthach) the Elder

Feast on March 5 St. Carthage was an Irish bishop and abbot of the 6th century. He was the successor of St. Kieman of Ossory. He was the son or grandson of a local king. The saint is mainly known as a…

March 18, 2020

Ecumenists, Just for the Sake of History

Synod Meeting of the State Church of Greece

photos: Χρήστος Μπόνης/Eurokinissi

March 17, 2020

To Ponder, Wisdom from the Fathers

Today’s Reading from Proverbs and Enduring “Being Killed All the Day Long”

At today’s vespers, I was impressed by a part of a passage that is often read at celebrated saints’ vespers and happened to fall in today’s regular reading of Proverbs. It says that Wisdom “has slaughtered her beasts; she has…

March 17, 2020

Saints

St. Gerasimus of the Jordan

Gerasimus left his family wealth and worldly affairs to become a monk. He departed for the region Thebaid in the Egyptian desert, later again returning to his native Lycia. About the middle of the 5th century, Saint Gerasimus went to…