Saint Mary's Byzantine Catholic Church

09/07/2026

In today’s reading, St. Paul exhorts us to, “put on the whole armor of God”. St. Jerome explains that is nothing more than, “Put on the Lord Jesus Christ” which is the goal of our Christian lives: 

09/06/2026

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09/04/2026

09/04/2026

Archbishop Fulton Sheen once said that baloney is flattery laid on so thick that you hate it, but blarney is flattery laid on so thin that you love it. Today’s passage from St. Paul shows us that he may well have been Irish, what with his skillful blarney toward the Galatians.

09/03/2026

It is very telling, if you have a Bible App and do a search of the word “law” it is everywhere in the entire Bible and all of the contexts it is used is also very telling. Draw your attention to the context that Jesus uses for the word “law” in Matthew 5:17-19.

09/02/2026

09/01/2026

08/31/2026

Today the Church celebrates the feast of the Placing of the Precious Sash of the Most Holy Theotokos. The origin of the feast goes back to the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Leo the Wise (886-911). Leo's wife, the Empress Zoe, who was afflicted with an unclean spirit, had a vision that she would be....

08/30/2026

Grief is the experience of love when someone we care deeply about is not there anymore. The pain of a deep yearning for the person's presence only exists because love came first. The only way out of grief is to go through it; time is the landscape we go through in the journey of grief – it is a pr...