3/14/2024
Hieromonk Madai (Maamdi)
They did not just receive baptism, but became living examples of how Christ changes everything—hearts, lives and nations.
And thus it was that they, the three Magi, the three sages, the fire worshippers, brought their gifts to a baby, accepting with all their hearts what they could never have imagined.
And thus, under the radiance of this unusual star, the Magi felt called by something great, unimaginable. In the hearts of these servants of fire, the servants of the ancient faith, there burned not material fire, but an inner flame of aspiration, and it was this inner flame that led them forward.
Today there are thousands of Christian Kurds and hundreds of Iranians who have converted to Orthodoxy on their own. It was from these new converts that the initiative to establish a mission began.
