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…

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…

Patriarch John X Meets Pope Francis

“Patriarch” John X of Antioch is “visiting” Pope Francis in the Vatican City. In addition to a private meeting, “Patriarch” John “witnessed a mass” in celebration of Ss. Peter and Paul on their feast day, June 29. The Vatican also…