Two righteous people who asked for a child all their lives, received one in old age, and did not keep him. What the Gospel says about Zachariah and Elizabeth, what the Church confesses about the slaying of the priest in the Temple, and what it rests on.
Frank Atwood was executed in Arizona after receiving the Great Schema. What the record shows, what he wrote about himself, and how his image took shape in Orthodox circles.
On 1 September the Church begins a new year. What the Indiction is, why it did not come from Nicaea, and how a Christian prepares for the year ahead.
On 29 August the Church commemorates the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist with fasting. What the Gospels and Josephus record, and how the Forerunner went before Christ even in death.
Why do we sometimes ask and not receive? Gethsemane, persistence, the will of God, and the way prayer first changes the one who asks.
The life of Saint Moses the Ethiopian, from robber chief to father of the desert, and the repentance he carried until death.
What we know about Saint Phanourios: the icon of Rhodes, the twelve torments, the antiquity of his veneration, the phanouropita and later traditions.
The life and teachings of Saint Poemen the Great on thoughts, humility, discernment, watchfulness and prayer. Commemorated on 27 August.
The martyrdom of Adrian in Nicomedia, Natalia's service in prison, and the Christian marriage that remained beneath the love of Christ.
The life of Saint Kosmas the Aetolian: twenty years of preaching through the Balkans, the schools he founded, and his martyrdom on 24 August 1779.
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