June 22, 2015
St. Alban of England: St. Alban is the ‘protomartyr’ or ‘first’ Christian martyr in England. He converted only a short time before torture and martyrdom because of the lifestyle and...
Monday, June 22
MATTHEW 10 16 “Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. 17 But beware of men, for they...
June 21, 2015
Martyr Julian of Tarsus: almost every day martyrs are part of the Liturgical calendar. We can read, often in detail, of horribly painful tortures that are worse than the...
Sunday, June 21
MATTHEW 6 22 “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is...
June 20, 2015
St. Nahum of Ochrid: at the end of a movie several dozen names are rapidly scrolled. These are the ‘credits’ of the movie and most people never bother to...
Saturday, June 20
MATTHEW 10 And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of...
June 19. 2015
APOSTLE JUDE: in his Epistle he write “faith without works is dead’. There are at least fourteen kinds of spiritual and corporal (earthly) works of mercy that we can...
Friday, June 19
MATTHEW 9 32 As they went out, behold, they brought to Him a man, mute and demon-possessed. 33 And when the demon was cast out, the mute spoke. And the multitudes...
July 18, 2015
‘GOD-LOVER’ ICON OF THE MOTHER OF GOD: Prince St. Andrew Bogolubsky had this icon painted to commemorate a vision he had of the Theotokos in the 12th Century. Many...
Thursday, June 18
MATTHEW 9 18 While He spoke these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped Him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay Your hand on...