10/3/2024
St. Philaret of Chernigov
Why don’t you want to tell someone else about your sins? Are you ashamed? Oh, if only it were so!
How strict, how supremely righteous the Last Judgment will be! If the Lord knows all, if He’s as righteous as He is powerful, then how terrible His judgment will be! In flaming fire [He will take] vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Thess. 1:8).
St. Philaret (Gumilevsky)
Bearing the labors and afflictions of proclaiming Christ, the Apostle Andrew preached the Gospel in many lands of Asia and Europe, including Bithynia, Propontis, Greece, Macedonia, Thrace, and Scythia.
Rejected by the world, she sought nothing more from it and dedicated her entire life to serving the Lord.
In remembrance of the conception of the Forerunner according to God’s special purpose, the Orthodox Church keeps a feast that without a doubt was established during the early years of Christianity.