Nativity of the Virgin Mary Orthodox Church

04/13/2025

https://www.oca.org/saints/troparia/2025/04/13/20-entry-of-our-lord-into-jerusalem-palm-sunday

Palm Sunday Palm Sunday is the celebration of the triumphant entrance of Christ into the royal city of Jerusalem. He rode on a c**t for which He Himself had sent, and He permitted the people to hail Him publicly as a king. A large crowd met Him in a manner befitting royalty, waving palm branches…

04/13/2025

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2025/04/13/101074-martyr-thomais-of-alexandria

04/13/2025

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2025/04/13/20-entry-of-our-lord-into-jerusalem-palm-sunday

Palm Sunday Palm Sunday is the celebration of the triumphant entrance of Christ into the royal city of Jerusalem. He rode on a c**t for which He Himself had sent, and He permitted the people to hail Him publicly as a king. A large crowd met Him in a manner befitting royalty, waving palm branches…

04/05/2025

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2025/04/05/17-5th-saturday-of-great-lent-of-the-akathist-to-the-theotokos

On the Fifth Saturday of Great Lent, the Saturday of the Akathist, we commemorate the “Laudation of the Virgin” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos. In 625, when the emperor Heraclius was fighting the Persians, the Khan sent forces to attack Constantinople by land and by sea. Patriarch…

04/05/2025

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2025/04/05/100999-venerable-publius-of-egypt

Saint Publius lived a life of asceticism in the Egyptian desert during the reign of the emperor Julian the Apostate (361-363). Before a military campaign against the Persians, the emperor sent a devil to explore the way for the army to go. The venerable Publius foresaw the intent of the emperor. He....

03/14/2025

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2025/03/13/100792-translation-of-the-relics-of-saint-nikephoros-patriarch-of-const

Saint Nikephoros (Nikēphóros) was a dignitary at the court of the empress Irene (797-802), and then after receiving monastic tonsure, he became known for his piety. In the year 806 he was elevated to the patriarchal throne. The saint was a zealous defender of the holy Icons. When the Iconoclast…

03/11/2025

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2025/03/10/100751-martyr-quadratus-and-those-with-him-at-corinth

During a persecution against Christians (in the third century) a certain pious woman named Rufina fled from Corinth to a mountain, to escape from her pursuers. There she gave birth to a son Quadratus, and died soon afterward. By the Providence of God the infant remained alive and was nourished in…

03/09/2025

Sunday of Orthodoxy at our Parish.

03/09/2025

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St. Vladimir's Seminary Choir

03/09/2025

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2025/03/09/100706-40-holy-martyrs-of-sebaste

In the year 313 Saint Constantine the Great issued an edict granting Christians religious freedom, and officially recognizing Christianity as equal with paganism under the law. But his co-ruler Licinius was a pagan, and he decided to stamp out Christianity in his part of the Empire. As Licinius…

03/09/2025

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2025/03/09/10-1st-sunday-of-great-lent-sunday-of-orthodoxy

The first Sunday of Great Lent is called the Sunday of Orthodoxy because it commemorates the restoration of the Holy Icons and the triumph of the Orthodox Faith against the terrible heresy of the Iconoclasts, i.e. those heretics who refused to honor the Holy Icons. For more than a hundred years the....

03/08/2025

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2025/03/08/100701-apostle-hermes-of-the-seventy

Saint Hermes (Hermḗs) is mentioned by the Holy Apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Romans (16:14). According to Tradition, he was the Bishop of Dalmatia and reposed in peace. In the Synaxarion of Hippolyte Delehaye (1902) he is called Ermylos. In the Paris Codex 13 f. 296 he is listed on April 8…