Category: Our Feasts
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Mary of Egypt was a young teenaged runaway in late 4th century Alexandria. She ended up as many teenaged runaways do in every age- prostituting
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On the Second Sunday of Lent the Orthodox Church commemorates our Holy Father Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica, the Wonderworker. The feast day of Saint
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The Great Fast is our annual preparation for the feast of Pascha. In English, it is often referred to as Holy Lent, from the Anglo-Saxon word for springtime, Lencten.