A Wonderworking Icon of the Archangel Michael Weeps in Rhodes

John Sanidopoulos

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A Wonderworking Icon of the Archangel Michael Weeps in Rhodes

John Sanidopoulos

Inhabitants of Rhodes are talking about a miracle, having seen on Saturday morning an icon of the Archangel Michael weeping in the Sacred Church of the Archangel Michael in the Old Cemetery of Ialyssos.

Angels

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

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Angels

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

The word ‘angel’ comes from the Greek ‘angelos’, which means ‘a messenger’. As far as we are concerned, in the way in which we are related to the angels, they enter into our life as messengers of God. This does not mean that there is not in the angels an essence of their own, their own essential being, and that they are nothing but messengers.

On the Feast of the Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and All the Heavenly Bodiless Powers

Archimdrite Kirill (Pavlov)

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On the Feast of the Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and All the Heavenly Bodiless Powers

Archimdrite Kirill (Pavlov)

When amidst a distracted and sinful life you suddenly feel a revulsion for sin, and under the influence of bright thoughts you get the desire to change your way of life, it means that your guardian angel has found a serendipitous moment to place before your inner eyes sin as it really is, in all its foulness.

Holy Hierarch St. Dimitry of Rostov

Commemorated 28 October/10 November

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Holy Hierarch St. Dimitry of Rostov

Commemorated 28 October/10 November

Soon Dimitry was called to perform a different labor. There was a need to assemble a collection of the Lives of the Saints. Metropolitan Makary had long since begun the task of collecting the Lives of Saints from various sources and assembling them in his great volumes of the Menaion.

Great Martyr Demetrios of Thessalonka

Commemorated October 26/November 8

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Great Martyr Demetrios of Thessalonka

Commemorated October 26/November 8

Saint Demetrios, the Great Martyr and Myhrr-Gusher, was born in Thessalonica in 260 A.D. His parents were illustrious people and along with the transitory glory which Demetrios had from his family, he was adorned with imperishable virtues: with prudence, sweetness, humility, justice, and with every noble comeliness of the soul.