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Feast Day/Commemorated: May 22 Melchizedek ruled as the King of Salem (Jerusalem) and served as a priest of the Most High God, laying the foundations of the city where the Messiah would eventually appear. According to the homilies of Mar Jacob of...

Feast Day/Commemorated: May 22 Melchizedek ruled as the King of Salem (Jerusalem) and served as a priest of the Most High God, laying the foundations of the city where the Messiah would eventually appear. According to the homilies of Mar Jacob of...

Feast Day/Commemorated: June 29 Saint Peter Freed From Chains/Prison 5 Peter was therefore kept in prison, but [a]constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church. 6 And when Herod was about to bring him out, that night Peter...

Feast Day/Commemorated: June 29 The Baptism of Saint Paul 10 And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord. 11 And the Lord said unto him,...

Feast Day/Commemorated: October 23 The Identity and Kinship of Saint James Saint James, known as the "Brother of the Lord," occupies a unique place in the genealogy of the early Church. Tradition generally identifies him as the son of Joseph the...

Feast Day/Commemorated: May 1 The Calling and Ministry of Jeremiah Born into a priestly family in Anathoth, Jeremiah was called to his prophetic ministry at the tender age of fifteen, roughly 600 years before the birth of Christ. Despite his initial...

Feast Day/Commemorated: July 20 The Life and Legacy of the Prophet Elias Born into the Levite tribe 900 years before the Incarnation, the Holy Prophet Elias was a man of fiery spirit whose very birth was marked by celestial visions. His father, Sobach,...

Feast Day/Commemorated: May 8 ***This Icon Depicts Saint John and Prochorus in the Cave of Patmos The final earthly moments of Saint John the Theologian, as recounted by tradition, are shrouded in an aura of profound reverence and mystery. At over a...

Commemorated on June 29On this most radiant day, the Holy Church piously gathers to offer hymns of praise to the Holy, Glorious, and All-Praised Leaders of the Apostles, Peter and Paul, who by their sacred sufferings have illumined the ends of the earth...

Feast Day/Commemorated: February 3 Symeon the God-Receiver was a devout and righteous man of Jerusalem, recognized for his deep faith and his role as one of the seventy scholars commissioned by Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus. While working in...

Feast Day/Commemorated:  September 23rd – Conception of St. JohnJanuary 7th – Synaxis of St. John February 24th – 1st & 2nd Findings of the head of St. JohnMay 25th – 3rd Finding of the head of St. JohnJune 24th...

Feast Day/Commemorated:  September 23rd – Conception of St. JohnJanuary 7th – Synaxis of St. John February 24th – 1st & 2nd Findings of the head of St. JohnMay 25th – 3rd Finding of the head of St. JohnJune 24th...