His Holiness Patriarch Kirill
Today’s feast teaches us very much.
The church was filled with Orthodox faithful from Patras and throughout Greece who came to venerate St. Andrew’s Cross and the portion of his relics housed at the cathedral.
Hieromonk Pafnuty (Fokin)
Love for prayer and services was characteristic of Fr. Damaskin. The brethren were surprised at how he was always at church, even though he was so weak that he was about to fall apart.
How can the human heart learn turn away from earthly lusts and begin instead to truly love our Lord Jesus Christ?
Earlier this month, the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople canonized two 20th-century elders: St. Gervasios (Paraskevopoulos) and St. Athanasios the Younger (Hamakiotis).