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If Anyone Should Pray – 2 Apostolic Canons
If anyone shall pray, even in a private house, with an excommunicated person, let him also be excommunicated. 10th Canon of the holy apostles If any clergyman shall join in prayer with a deposed clergyman as if he were still…
Nun-Martyr St. Febronia – Commemorated on June 25
The Virgin-Martyr Febronia suffered during the reign of Diocletian (284-305). She was raised at a monastery in the city of Sivapolis (Assyria region). The head of the women’s monastery was the Abbess Brienna, the aunt of Saint Febronia, and being…
The Nativity of St John the Baptist From a sermon by St. Bede the Venerable
(Expositio in Luc. I. II.) THE Angel appeared to Zacharias in the sanctuary of the temple at the right side of the altar of incense. Which same was fitting, thus he appeared in the sanctuary because he came to…
St. Alban, protomartyr of Britain (305) -Commemorated on June 22
He was a soldier in the Roman army and, according to the venerable Bede, was brought to faith in Christ by a fugitive priest to whom he gave shelter. The saint exchanged clothes with the priest, allowing him to escape…
Celebrating with Pagans
It is not correct to celebrate with pagans and so commune thus in their godlessness
St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco the Wonderworker
Archbishop John was born on June 4, 1896 in Kharkov province, to the pious aristocrats Boris and Glafira Maximovitch; at baptism he was given the name Michael. Even in childhood Michael displayed a certain striving toward holiness, similar to that…