Rating: 6,5|Votes: 2

Selected Passages from the Teachings of Saint Kosmas of Aetolia

St. Kosmas of Aetolia

God, the all-good and most merciful, my brethren, is one, and whoever says that there are many Gods is a devil. He is triune: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; yet one nature, one glory, one kingdom, one God. He is all light, all joy, all compassion, all love.

Procession of the Honorable Wood of the Cross

The Preaching of the Cross

A homily on the commemoration of the Procession of the Cross and the Seven Maccabean Martyrs with their mother Solomonia and the priest Eleazar.

Fr. Seraphim Holland

Brothers and sisters, today is the Procession of the Cross which we celebrate on the first of August, and also the holy Maccabean martyrs with their teacher Eleazar and their mother Solomonia. St. Paul has two famous phrases that are in one of the epistles we read today—a very misunderstood phrase. Let’s talk about what it really means.

Rating: 10|Votes: 5

Holy Hieromartyr Benjamin of Petrograd and Those With Him

Commemorated July 31/August 14

Today the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the memory of one of the early stars in the pleiades of new martyrs and confessors of the Communist yoke, Metropolitan Benjamin (Kazansky) of Petrograd and Gdovsk, together with Archimandrite Sergei, Yuri, and John.

Rating: 7,9|Votes: 7

Venerable Neot of Cornwall

Commemorated: July 31/August 13

Dmitry Lapa

St. Neot lived in the ninth century. He was of noble birth. Neot began life as a soldier but after some time he resolved to give up a military career and dedicate his life to the service of God and prayer.