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20525 Center Ridge Rd. #401
Rocky River, OH 44116
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A Pan-Orthodox ministry that displays Christian love, mercy and compassion to the individuals, families and facilities it serves.
1/7: Acts 19:1-8; Ephesians 4:7-13; John 1:29-34; Matthew 4:12-17
1/8: James 2:14-26; Luke 17:20-25
1/9: James 3:1-10; Luke 17:26-37
1/10: James 3:11-4:6; Luke 18:15-17, 26-30
1/11: James 4:7-5:9; Luke 18:31-34
1/12: 1 Peter 1:1-2, 10-12; 2:6-10; Luke 19:12-28
1/13: Ephesians 6:10-17; Matthew 4:1-11
"How could the human race go to God if God had not come to us?" --St. Irenaeus of Lyons
"Pray in peace and serenity, sing intelligently and in a good state - and you will be like a young eagle soaring high in the sky." --St. Nilus of Sinai
"If a man tries to overcome temptations without prayer and patient endurance, he will become more entangled in them instead of driving them away." --St. Mark the Ascetic
"The Lord sees your need and your efforts, and will give you a helping hand. He will support and establish you as a soldier, fully armed and ready to go into battle. No support can be better than His. The greatest danger lies in the soul thinking that it can find this help within itself; then it will lose everything. Evil will dominate it again, eclipsing the light that as yet flickers but weakly in the soul, and it will extinguish the small flame which is still scarcely burning. The soul should realize how powerless it is alone; therefore, expecting nothing of itself, let it fall down in humility before God, and in its own heart recognize itself to be nothing. Then grace - which is all powerful - will, out of this nothing, create in it everything. He who in total humility puts himself in the hand of the merciful God, attracts the Lord to himself, and becomes strong in His strength." --St. Theophan the Recluse
"To receive gifts from the Holy Spirit, you must, first of all, cleanse your heart of sin, self-love, and pride. The Holy Spirit always surrounds us and wishes to fill us, but the evil nesting within us, like a wall, impedes His path." --St. Innocent of Alaska
"Every single one of the saints acquired humility from the fulfillment of the Commandments. No one can explain how this comes about, how humility is generated in the soul. Unless a man learns this by experience, he cannot learn it by verbal teaching." --St. Dorotheos of Gaza
Christ is Born! Glorify Him!
January 4 is the Third Pre-Festive Day of Theophany. On this day of the month the Orthodox Church commemorates the Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles.
The prescribed readings are James 1:19-27 and Luke 16:1-9.
*** Our next live broadcast on Facebook will be on Monday, January 8, at 8am (Eastern). ***
Christ is Born! Glorify Him!
*** Our next live broadcast on Facebook will be tomorrow, January 4, at 8am (Eastern). ***
Christ is Born! Glorify Him!
January 2 is the First Pre-Festive Day of Theophany. On this day of the month the Orthodox Church commemorates Our Holy Father-Among-The-Saints, Sylvester, Pope of Rome; and Our Venerable Father Seraphim, Wonderworker of Sarov.
The prescribed readings are Hebrews 12:25-26; 13:22-25 and Luke 14:25-35.
*** Our next live broadcast on Facebook will be tomorrow, January 3, at 7pm (Eastern). ***
For healing: Fr. Andrew, Fr. Daniel, Fr. Emilian, Fr. Gregory, Fr Jerome, Fr. John Henry, Fr. Kyril, Fr. Mefody, Fr. Paul, Fr. Deacon Jorge, Matushka Katherine, Matushka Myra, Monk Meletios, Subdeacon Nicholas, Justin, Steven, Marian, Patricia, Mark, Nikolai, Anastasia, Alice, Kathleen, Denise, Denise, Pamela, Marianne, Ryan, Joanne, Emily, Charles, Hank, Mary Jane, Nicholas, Alicia, Mary Jo, Clara, Barbara, Margaret, Susan, Randall, Danielle, Nicholas, Tricia, Patty, Darlene, George, Paul, Kathleen, Walter, Andrew, Natalie, Arthur, Diana, Nicole, Patricia, Rene, Jennifer, Jason, Michael, Marc, Paul, Michael, Daniel, Gerald, Madeline, Marcella, Rita, Rodica, Mila, Richard, James, Elaine, Dejan, Papoulas, Nicholas, Constantine, Agape, Eleftheria, Mirsina, Candice, Darina, David, Jay, William, Gloria, Daria, Benjamin, Jude, George, Carol, Andrew, Jodi, Richard, Madeline
For God’s protection: all who are missing
For God’s protection: all captives; all persecuted Christians throughout the world
For God’s protection: all those in the military
For God’s protection: all emergency medical workers, firefighters and police officers
For God’s mercy and peace: those who are in hospice care
For God’s mercy, direction and protection: those who are unemployed, poor, hungry and/or homeless
*** We pray for: those who love us; those who hate us; those who have no one to pray for them; those who have asked us to pray for them, even though we are unworthy. ***
Departed: Matushka Mary, Judith, Dorina, Clifton, Anthony, Wasyl, Anna, William, Dorothy, William, Delores
12/31: Galatians 1:11-19; Matthew 2:13-23
1/1: Colossians 2:8-12; Luke 2:20-21, 40-52
1/2: Hebrews 12:25-26; 13:22-25; Luke 14:25-35
1/3: James 1:1-18; Luke 15:1-10
1/4: James 1:19-27; Luke 16:1-9
1/5: Isaiah 35:1-10; Acts 13:25-32; Matthew 3:1-11; Isaiah 1:16-20; Acts 19:1-18; Mark 1:1-8; Isaiah 12:3-6; Romans 6:3-11; Mark 1:9-15; Isaiah 49:8-15; Titus 2:11-14, 3:4-7; Luke 3:1-18
1/6: Titus 2:11-14; 3:4-7; Matthew 3:13-17
Christ is Born! Glorify Him!
Today is December 30, 2023. On this day of the month the Orthodox Church commemorates the Holy Martyrs Anysia and Melania.
The prescribed readings are 1 Timothy 6:11-16 and Matthew 12:15-21.
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Christ is Born! Glorify Him!
Today is December 29, 2023. On this day of the month the Orthodox Church commemorates the Holy Martyred 14,000 Infants.
The prescribed readings are Hebrews 11:8, 11-16 and Mark 12:1-12.
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Christ is Born! Glorify Him!
On December 29, the Orthodox Church commemorates the Holy Martyred 14,000 Infants.
*** Our next live broadcast on Facebook will be tomorrow, December 29, at 8am (Eastern). ***
"In order to learn praying, pray more often and with more zeal and you will learn it: you would not need anything else. If you work hard and patiently, you will acquire the skill of unceasing prayer with time. Make it your goal—to seek and do seek. The Lord is close to you. Keep God always in your mind and always try to see the Lord before you and to venerate Him." --St. Theophan the Recluse
"Nothing causes such exceeding grief as when one calls to mind that he has fallen because he turned aside to carnal and earthly things, instead of directing his mind in the beautiful ways of the knowledge of God." --St. Ambrose of Milan
"Doctrine listened to is a light in darkness, a road home to the lost traveler, an illumination for the blind. A discerning man is a discoverer of health, a destroyer of sickness." --St. John Climacus
"Of course, it would be easier to get to Paradise with a full stomach, all snuggled up in a soft featherbed, but what is required is to carry one’s cross along the way, for the kingdom of God is not attained by enduring one or two troubles, but many!" --St. Anthony of Optina
"Afflictions, illnesses, ill health and the pains that our bodies experience are counted for the remission of our trespasses. They are the furnace in which we are purified." --St. John Chrysostom
"He who repents rightly does not imagine that it is his own effort that cancels his former sins, but through this effort he makes his peace with God." --St. Hesychios the Priest
Christ is Born! Glorify Him!
On December 27, the Orthodox Church commemorates the Holy Apostle, First-Martyr and Archdeacon Stephen
*** Our next live broadcast on Facebook will be tomorrow, December 27, at 7pm (Eastern). ***
Christ is Born! Glorify Him!
*** Our next live broadcast on Facebook will be tomorrow, December 26, at 7pm (Eastern). ***
Dearly beloved, today our Savior is born; let us rejoice. Sadness should have no place on the birthday of life. The fear of death has been swallowed up; life brings us joy with the promise of eternal happiness.
No one is shut out from this joy; all share the same reason for rejoicing. Our Lord, victor over sin and death, finding no man free from sin, came to free us all. Let the saint rejoice as he sees the palm of victory at hand. Let the sinner be glad as he receives the offer of forgiveness. Let the pagan take courage as he is summoned to life.
In the fullness of time, chosen in the unfathomable depths of God's wisdom, the Son of God took for himself our common humanity in order to reconcile it with its Creator. He came to overthrow the devil, the origin of death, in that very nature by which he had overthrown mankind.
And so at the birth of our Lord the angels sing in joy: Glory to God in the highest, and they proclaim peace to men of good will as they see the heavenly Jerusalem being built from all the nations of the world. When the angels on high are so exultant at this marvelous work of God's goodness, what joy should it not bring to the lowly hearts of men?
Beloved, let us give thanks to God the Father, through his Son, in the Holy Spirit, because in his great love for us he took pity on us, and when we were dead in our sins he brought us to life with Christ, so that in him we might be a new creation. Let us throw off our old nature and all its ways and, as we have come to birth in Christ, let us renounce the works of the flesh.
Christian, remember your dignity, and now that you share in God's own nature, do not return by sin to your former base condition. Bear in mind who is your head and of whose body you are a member. Do not forget that you have been rescued from the power of darkness and brought into the light of God's kingdom.
Through the sacrament of baptism you have become a temple of the Holy Spirit. Do not drive away so great a guest by evil conduct and become again a slave to the devil, for your liberty was bought by the blood of Christ.
For healing: Fr. Andrew, Fr. Daniel, Fr. Emilian, Fr. Gregory, Fr Jerome, Fr. John Henry, Fr. Kyril, Fr. Mefody, Fr. Paul, Fr. Deacon Jorge, Matushka Katherine, Matushka Myra, Monk Meletios, Subdeacon Nicholas, Justin, Steven, Marian, Patricia, Mark, Nikolai, Anastasia, Alice, Kathleen, Denise, Denise, Pamela, Marianne, Ryan, Joanne, Emily, Charles, Hank, Mary Jane, Nicholas, Alicia, Mary Jo, Clara, Barbara, Margaret, Susan, Randall, Danielle, Nicholas, Tricia, Patty, Darlene, George, Paul, Kathleen, Walter, Andrew, Natalie, Arthur, Diana, Nicole, Patricia, Rene, Jennifer, Jason, Michael, Marc, Paul, Michael, Daniel, Gerald, Madeline, Marcella, Rita, Rodica, Mila, Richard, James, Elaine, Dejan, Papoulas, Nicholas, Constantine, Agape, Eleftheria, Mirsina, Candice, Darina, David, Jay, William, Gloria, Daria, Benjamin, Jude, George, Carol, Andrew, Jodi
For God’s protection: all who are missing
For God’s protection: all captives; all persecuted Christians throughout the world
For God’s protection: all those in the military
For God’s protection: all emergency medical workers, firefighters and police officers
For God’s mercy and peace: those who are in hospice care
For God’s mercy, direction and protection: those who are unemployed, poor, hungry and/or homeless
*** We pray for: those who love us; those who hate us; those who have no one to pray for them; those who have asked us to pray for them, even though we are unworthy. ***
Departed: Matushka Mary, Judith, Dorina, Clifton, Anthony, Stephen, Gloria, Mark, William, Dorothy
12/24: Hebrews 11:9-10, 17-23, 32-40; Matthew 1:1-25
12/25: Galatians 4:4-7; Matthew 2:1-12
12/26: Hebrews 2:11-18; Matthew 2:13-23
12/27: Acts 6:8-15;7:1-5,47-60; Matthew 21:33-42
12/28: Hebrews 10:35-11:7; Mark 11:27-33
12/29: Hebrews 11:8, 11-16; Mark 12:1-12
12/30: 1 Timothy 6:11-16; Matthew 12:15-21
Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory Forever!
Today is December 23, 2023. On this day of the month the Orthodox Church commemorates the Holy Ten Martyrs of Crete.
The prescribed readings are Galatians 3:8-12 and Luke 13:18-29.
*** Our next live broadcast on Facebook will be on Tuesday, December 26, at 7pm (Eastern). ***
"Christians are destined to bear a heavy cross in their life. It’s a difficult thing to say you believe in the Lord and also that you have ease of life in this life. Because, when you are having ease of life on earth, there is something wrong with yourself; you care about the gold of the land and not for the treasures of heaven. But when you think like this, you are far away from the will of God. Christian life and having ease in life do not go together; they are different things". --St. Paisios the Athonite
"The true Christian is a warrior fighting his way through the regiments of the unseen enemy to his heavenly homeland." --St. Herman of Alaska
"He who strives for honor has honor running away from him, while he who runs away from honor has it chasing him." --St. Isaac the Syrian
"Do not grieve if you do not at once receive from God that which you ask. He wishes to benefit you still more by making you persist longer in your patient prayer before Him. For what can be higher than to address one's converse to God and be in communion with Him?" --St. Nilus of Sinai
"A person can become a saint anywhere... At your work, whatever it may be, you can become a saint through meekness, patience, and love. Make a new start every day, with new resolution, enthusiasm and love, prayer and silence." --St. Porphyrios
"Though God knows all our needs, prayer is necessary for the cleansing and enlightenment of our soul. It is well to stand in the sunshine; it is warm and light; likewise, when standing in prayer before God, our spiritual Sun, we are warmed and enlightened." --St. John of Kronstadt
Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory Forever!
Today is December 21, 2023. On this day of the month the Orthodox Church commemorates the Holy Virgin Martyr Juliana.
The prescribed readings are Hebrews 7:1-6 and Mark 10:17-27.
*** Our next live broadcast on Facebook will be on Saturday, December 23, at 8am (Eastern). ***
Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory Forever!
Today is December 19, 2023. On this day of the month the Orthodox Church commemorates the Holy Martyr Boniface at Tarsus, and the Righteous Aglaida of Rome.
The prescribed readings are Hebrews 4:1-13 and Mark 10:2-12.
*** Our next live broadcast on Facebook will be tomorrow, December 20, at 7pm (Eastern). ***