All Saints of America

The tradition of Great Lent is one of intensified praxis, or practice. Our of our journey is to be acsesis (Greek), or podvig (Slavonic), or Jihad (Arabic) or, in English, struggle. We are “working out our salvation in fear and trembling” as St Paul says. We are “running the race set before us.” Lent is [...]

OR THE WEEK From 1 October – the Eastern Feast of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos – to 7 October – the Western Feast of Our Lady of Victory – a set of prayers to Our Lady asking her help and protection for all Christians. These two feasts seem to me analogues. And [...]

Troparion (Tone 8) As the bountiful harvest of Your sowing of salvation, the lands of North and South America offer to You, O Lord, all the saints who have shone forth in them. By their prayers keep the Church and our land in abiding peace through the Theotokos, O most Merciful One! Kontakion (Tone 3) [...]