KEEPERS
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Some things you keep. Like good teeth. Warm coats. Bald husbands. They’re good for you, reliable and practical and so sublime that to throw them away would make the garbage man a thief. So you hang on because…
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Month November 2020
St. Hilda, Abbess of Whitby (680) Commemorated November 17
A noble kinswoman of St Edwin, king of Northumbria (commemorated October 12), Hilda was baptized at a young age through the preaching of St Paulinus, one of the first missionaries sent from Rome to the British Isles. At the age…
3 Answers that Orthodox Christians Should Know and Use by Patriarch Jeremiah II (the Great- Tρανὸς) of Constantinople
Source: Augsburg and Constantinople, by Fr. George Mastrantonis (Brookline, MA: Holy Cross Press, 1982). The First (of 3) Answer of Patriarch Jeremiah II of Constantinople Sent to Tübingen on May 15, 1576, Concerning the Augsburg Confession We received the letters…
6 Answers to Scribes and Pharisees who Judge.
The Lord wrote something unexpected and startling for the elders, the accusers of the sinful woman. With His finger He disclosed their secret iniquities. For these pointers-out of the sins of others were experts in concealing their own sins. But it is pointless to try to hide anything from the eyes of One Who sees all.
St. Martin the Merciful, Bishop of Tours (397) Commemorated on November 11
This holy and beloved Western Saint, the patron of France, was born in Pannonia (modern-day Hungary) in 316, to a pagan military family stationed there. Soon the family returned home to Italy, where Martin grew up. He began to go…
Saint Tysilio Commemorated November 8
source: Wikipedia Saint Tysilio (+640 AD) was a Welsh bishop, prince and scholar, son of the reigning King of Powys, Brochwel Ysgithrog, maternal nephew of the great Abbot Dunod of Bangor Iscoed, and an ecclesiastic who took a prominent part in the affairs of Wales during the distressful period at the opening…