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30 Nov 2023 10:11

Saint Grégoire le Thaumaturge, évêque de Néocésarée (+270)

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30 Nov 2023 07:20

Апостол и евангелист Матфей

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29 Nov 2023 19:37

Holy Apostle Matthew the Evangelist

Saint Matthew was a tax collector when the Lord saw him and said: Follow Me. Matthew repented of his sins, recompensed fourfold those he had overcharged, gave his remaining possessions to the poor, and followed the Savior. Matthew witnessed Christ's innumerable miracles and His suffering, death, and Resurrection and beheld His glorious Ascension into Heaven. Having received the grace of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, he spent eight years preaching the Gospel in Palestine. At the request of the faithful in Jerusalem, Matthew wrote his account of the earthly life and teachings of the God-man Jesus Christ. Matthew brought the Good News to Syria, Media, Persia, Parthia and finally Ethiopia, where he built a church and appointed his follower Plato as bishop. When Matthew baptized the wife and son of the prince of Ethiopia, the enraged ruler put him to death. But after witnessing the miracles surrounding the Apostle's martyrdom, the prince was baptized and took the name Matthew.

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26 Nov 2023 15:00

Saint John Chrysostom

John was born in Antioch in 354. His father was an imperial commander. Studying philosophy, John became disgusted with paganism and adopted the Christian Faith as the one and all-embracing truth. He was baptized and his parents soon followed him in the faith. He was tonsured a monk and lived a life of asceticism. The Apostles John and Peter appeared to him, foretelling his life of great service and suffering. He was ordained and a shining dove was seen over his head. He was chosen as Patriarch of Constantinople by Emperor Arcadius and governed for six years with unequalled zeal and wisdom. He sent missionaries to the pagans, eradicated simony, shamed heretics, increased charitable works, wrote a Divine Liturgy and gave us many precious books of homilies. The people glorified him, the envious hated him, and the Empress exiled him. John spent three years in exile, reposing on the Feast of the Elevation of the Cross in Georgia in 407. His last words were "Glory be to God for all things.''

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25 Nov 2023 09:13

Saint apôtre Paul

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21 Nov 2023 17:18

Synaxe de l’Archistratège Michel et les autres puissances incorporelles

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14 Nov 2023 07:57

Holy King Stefan Milutin

A great son of the Orthodox Church, King Milutin rose up decisively against Emperor Michael Paleologos to stop an enforced union with Rome and with God's help saved Orthodoxy - not only in his own land of Serbia, but in all the Balkans. All his wars were successful, for he constantly prayed to God and hoped in God. When Milutin ascended the throne, he vowed that he would build a church for each year that he reigned and so he built 42 churches and several monasteries. Next to the churches he built hospitals for the indigent, where the poor would receive care for free. He especially loved to give alms to the needy from his own enormous wealth. The powerful and wealthy king would dress in the clothes of a poor man and walk among the people and ask about their misfortunes, and gave to them abundantly. Saint Stefan Milutin entered eternal life in 1321 and his body was soon discovered to be incorrupt and miracle-working and remains today in the Church of the Holy King in Sofia, Bulgaria.

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11 Nov 2023 09:00

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07 Nov 2023 17:41

Saint grand martyr Dimitri de Thessalonique

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05 Nov 2023 16:10

Holy Apostle James, the Brother of God

Saint James was the son of Joseph the Betrothed of the Most Holy Theotokos. He was a Nazarene, a man especially dedicated to God. The Nazarenes preserved their virginity, abstained from wine, refrained from eating meat, and did not cut their hair. When Jesus Christ began to teach about the Kingdom of God, his brother James became His apostle. Saint James was chosen as the first Bishop of Jerusalem and presided over the Council of Jerusalem. He composed a Divine Liturgy and one of his epistles is preserved as a book of the New Testament. In his thirty years as bishop, James brought many Jews to Christ. Furious about this multitude of conversions, the Pharisees and Scribes plotted to kill him. The jewish leaders threw Saint James off the roof of the Jerusalem Temple. He did not die immediately, but gathered his final strength and prayed to the Lord for his enemies while they stoned him to death. Saint James was martyred in 63 AD.

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04 Nov 2023 08:48

Remets tout entre les mains de Dieu et ne te perturbe pas pour l’avenir. Ce que utile pour vous et ce qui salutaire, Dieu vous enverra.

Saint Nectaire d’Egine

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03 Nov 2023 15:01

Saint John of Kronstadt

Saint John was a married priest who lived with his wife in virginity. Through his untiring labors and love for the poor and sinners, he was granted great gifts of clairvoyance and miracle-working, to such a degree that in his last years miracles of healings were performed countless times each day through his prayers. In his lifetime he was known throughout Russia, as well as in the Western world. His diary My Life in Christ is a spiritual treasure for Christians; simple in language, it expounds the deepest mysteries of our Faith with wisdom which is given only to a heart purified by the grace of the Holy Spirit. Foreseeing the revolution of 1917, he rebuked the growing apostasy among the people; he foretold that the very name of Russia would be changed. As the darkness of unbelief grew, he shone forth as a beacon of unquenchable piety, comforting the faithful through the miracles that he worked and the fatherly love with which he received all. Saint John reposed in peace in 1909.

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31 Oct 2023 16:18

Le commencement de tous les biens spirituels, c'est la foi en Christ, en l'Evangile - une foi vivante prouvée par l'accomplissement des commandements de l'Evangile dans les actes, dans toute la vie : il est donc naturel que l'amour de l'argent, qui arrache du cœur la foi, soit la racine de tous les maux (I Tim. 6)

Saint Ignace Briantchaninov
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31 Oct 2023 08:34

Holy Martyrs Cosmas and Damian, Unmercenaries of Arabia

Saints Cosmas and Damian were doctors who embraced the true faith and healed the sick in the name of Jesus Christ, becoming known for their miraculous healings. They refused to accept payment thus they are called "unmercenary". Wicked pagans seized them and took them to the governor. The holy brothers would not deny Christ at any price so they were thrown into the sea, but God almighty saved them from drowning. Then they were cast into fire, but an angel of God saved them from the flames. The pagan governor ascribed this to some magical power of theirs, but they replied: "We have no sort of magic, but we have the power of Christ to save us and all who call upon His holy name." Then they were stoned, but the stones bounced off them. Finally, they were beheaded by the sword. Many miracles were done through their holy relics, such as they themselves had done while living on this earth. Cosmas and Damian suffered in the early fourth century.

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29 Oct 2023 19:28

Holy Martyr Longinus

Saint Longinus was the centurion in command at Christ's crucifixion and at His tomb. He pierced Christ with a spear and was healed of an affliction when blood and water poured out of Him. After the events at the Cross, Longinus and two of his soldiers believed in Jesus as the Son of God. When the jews learned of the Resurrection, they bribed the soldiers to say that the disciples had stolen His body. Longinus and his comrades refused to be seduced by jewish gold. They also refused to remain silent about the miracles they had seen. They left the military, received baptism from the apostles, and went to spread the Gospel. Longinus gave himself to fasting and prayer and, as a living witness to the Resurrection, turned many pagans to Christ. The jews convinced Pilate to find and execute Longinus. When he was found, Longinus refused to flee when given the chance and he and his friends were beheaded. Pilate gave the skull of Longinus to the jews, who threw it on a dung heap outside the city.

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30 Nov 2023 07:21

Le saint du jour :

Saint Nikon, higoumene (abbé) de Radoniege (+1426), disciple de saint Serge de Radoniege.

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30 Nov 2023 07:19

Мученики Гурий, Самон и Авив

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28 Nov 2023 20:02

Saint Paisius Velichkovsky

Saint Paisius led a life of love and toil for God that brought the renewal of monasticism in Russia and the Balkans, a returning to noetic prayer and the teachings of the Holy Fathers. Born to a large pious family in 1722, at 17 he went to several monasteries and though he could not find the right spiritual father he acquired such wisdom and grace that he was called “young elder”. Refusing pleas that he be ordained, he went to Mount Athos, which was suffering under Turkish occupation. For four years he lived in isolation, alone with Scripture and the Fathers, eating only every other day. Guided away from eremitic life, Paisius accepted his first disciple and they were joined by 10 others. He received ordination and led the brothers in translating the works of the Holy Fathers. When they left Athos for Romania there were 64 brothers and before he died the brotherhood had grown into a monastic army of 1000. The fruits of Saint Paisius’ labors were published as the Russian Philokalia.

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26 Nov 2023 00:01

Saint Jean Chrysostome

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22 Nov 2023 07:10

Bonne fête de saint Nectaire d’Egine !

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18 Nov 2023 18:50

Holy Martyrs Galaktion and Episteme

These saints were born to pagan parents during a terrible persecution of Christians. Galaktion's mother was barren until she was secretly baptized. She baptized her son and raised him as a Christian. When Galaktion's mother died, his father betrothed him to the maiden Episteme. Galaktion did not wish to be married at all. He secretly catechized Episteme and she was baptized and became a nun at the same time he became a monk. They went to the mountain Publion; Galaktion to a men's monastery and Episteme to a women's. They became true lights in their monasteries and they never saw each other again until their deaths. Pagans found the monasteries and the two were brought to trial and mercilessly tortured. Their hands and feet were cut off and then finally their heads. Eutolios, a servant of Episteme's parents who was a monk with Galaktion, took their bodies and buried them and wrote the Lives of these wonderful martyrs for Christ, who received their heavenly crowns in 253.

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14 Nov 2023 07:49

Monks walk to the mountain monastery of Athos.
(1905) - Herman Corrodi

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08 Nov 2023 12:47

Icône russe du 12 siècle de saint Dimitri de Thessalonique. Se trouve aujourd’hui dans le musée Tretiakov à Moscou.

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06 Nov 2023 20:14

Holy Martyr Arethas and 4299 Martyrs

Saint Arethas suffered for Christ along with 4299 other Christians in the sixth century. Arethas was governor of Negran, a Christian city in southern Arabia. The king, a jew called Dunaan, had resolved to eradicate Christianity entirely. He laid siege to Negran and told the citizens they would die unless they denied Christ. The citizens closed the gates, and Dunaan resorted to a ruse. He swore an oath that he would not force the city into judaism, but would merely collect a tribute. The warnings of Arethas went unheeded, and the gates were opened. The bloodthirsty king summoned 95 year old Arethas and killed him and then indulged in a riot of butchery through the town. He told the inhabitants of Negran, "I merely want that you do not believe in Jesus Christ." More than four thousand men, women, and children confessed that Jesus Christ is God the Word, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, Incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and were martyred.

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05 Nov 2023 09:43

Saint apôtre Jacques, fêté aujourd’hui

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04 Nov 2023 07:38

Icône de Notre Dame de Kazañ (Kazagne), fêtée aujourd’hui

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02 Nov 2023 08:12

Église de saint archange Michel – Oreanda, Crimée

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31 Oct 2023 16:17

Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke

Born in Antioch, Saint Luke was a physician who studied philosophy, medicine, and art. Hearing of Christ, Luke came to Jerusalem and saw the Savior face to face, heard His teachings, and witnessed His works. The resurrected Lord appeared to Saint Luke and Cleopas on the road to Emmaus. Luke joined Saint Paul on his second missionary journey, bringing many pagans and jews to Christ. After Paul's martyrdom, Luke taught the true faith in Macedonia, Dalmatia, and Italy. At the request of the Christians, Saint Luke wrote both his Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. Luke painted three icons of the most holy Mother of God and icons of Peter and Paul, and is regarded as the founder of Christian iconography. In his old age, he traveled to Libya and Egypt, then returned to Greece, where he labored with great zeal. At the age of 84, Saint Luke was martyred by pagans for the sake of Christ and hanged from an olive tree in the town of Thebes.

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30 Oct 2023 15:34

Aujourd’hui - mémoire de saint prophète Osée (auteur d’un des livres de la Bible)

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29 Oct 2023 12:59

Icône de saints martyrs royaux de Russie

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