Rating: 7|Votes: 3
To this day, in the city of Nazareth—one of the last cities in the Holy Land with a sizeable Christian population—there is a church dedicated to the Archangel Gabriel. Inside the church is a well that tradition designates as coming from very spring at which the Annunciation took place.
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
As a result of military conflict, the site of the Baptism of Christ, known as Qaser al-Yahud, is heavily mined. It is home to ancient churches and monasteries, which haven’t been safe to visit for nearly fifty years.
Fr. James Guirguis
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 6
What is this one word that the Lord spoke? What is this one word that changed the lives of two troubled men? What was this word that troubled a whole city? What was this word that caused the Lord to have to leave again for His own city?
Fr. Stephen Freeman
Rating: 10|Votes: 4
A very apt word for the world we live in is: disenchanted. It was first used by Max Weber and a number of others to describe a certain aspect of the modern world – the absence of the sacred.
Fr. Ted Bobosh
Rating: 5,5|Votes: 2
At the time when the Orthodox Gospel lectionary was being formed, a story of Christ exorcising demons must have been very popular. Since we have a lectionary that repeats every year, it is interesting that they thought this miracle important enough to proclaim twice during the church year in which there are only 52 Sundays, and we actually hear only 1/7 of the Gospels if we attend only on Sundays.