What Is Our Authority For?

Rev. Gregory Jensen

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What Is Our Authority For?

Rev. Gregory Jensen

In the Gospel Jesus’ authority—His rights if you will—is for something. It has a purpose. Jesus has authority, power, to proclaim the Gospel in both words and deeds. The authority that Jesus exercise liberates us from the law of sin and death.

The Entry of the Mother of God into the Temple

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

The Entry of the Mother of God into the Temple

Homily on the Day of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple

St. Philaret of Moscow

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Homily on the Day of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple

St. Philaret of Moscow

And first of all, Christian soul, recognize here your eternal right by which you belong the King of kings, and be led unto Him in submission and love. And the King shall greatly desire thy beauty, for He Himself is thy Lord.

The Entry of our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-virgin Mary into the Temple

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The Entry of our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-virgin Mary into the Temple

When the Most Holy Virgin became three years old, her parents, true to their vow to the Lord to dedicate their child to Him, in procession with young maidens "adorned with the beauty of virtues" "with lamps in their hands" and accompanied by relatives and acquaintenances, "with gladness" solemnly led their Most-pure Daughter into the Jerusalem Temple "to be brought up in divine grace" "before the Lord."

Saint Edmund the Martyr, King of East Anglia and Patron-Saint of England

Commemorated November 20/December 3

Dmitry Lapa

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Saint Edmund the Martyr, King of East Anglia and Patron-Saint of England

Commemorated November 20/December 3

Dmitry Lapa

St. Edmund, whose name means “blessed protection”, was probably born in 841. He lived during one of the most troubled periods of early English history, when hordes of Danish pirates were devastating English kingdoms one after another, burning churches and monasteries, ravaging them, murdering Christians and all inhabitants.