Saint Luke Serbian Orthodox Church of Washington, DC

Хришћански пост Живот сваког православног хришћанина треба да буде подвижнички. Без нашег духовног и телесног труда, потпомогнутог Божјом благодаћу, немогуће је ослободити се силе греха и сјединити са Господом. Зато пост у православној духовности заузима веома важно место и без њега нема напретка ни у једној хришћанској врлини. У давној прошлости, појам поста обухватао је […]

Saint Porphyrios (Bairaktaris) was born in 1906 with the name Evangelos in Evoia, Greece, in the small village of Agios Ioannis (Saint John). As a child he tended to the sheep in the hills, and it is there that he first read the life of Saint John the Hut-Dweller (Commemorated January 15th) which planted the desire […]

THE ENTRY INTO THE TEMPLE OF THE MOST-HOLY THEOTOKOS When the Most-holy Virgin Mary reached the age of three, her holy parents Joachim and Anna took her from Nazareth to Jerusalem to dedicate her to the service of God according to their earlier promise. It was a three-day journey from Nazareth to Jerusalem but, traveling […]

THE HOLY GREAT-MARTYR CATHERINE Catherine was the daughter of King Constus. After the death of her father, she lived with her mother in Alexandria. Her mother was secretly a Christian who, through her spiritual father, brought Catherine to the Christian Faith. In a vision, St. Catherine received a ring from the Lord Jesus Himself as […]

THE HIEROMARTYR CLEMENT, BISHOP OF ROME Clement was born in Rome of royal lineage and was a contemporary of the holy apostles. His mother and two brothers, traveling on the sea, were carried by a storm to different places. His father then went to find his wife and two sons and he, too, became lost. […]

THE VENERABLE ALYPIUS THE STYLITE Alypius was born in Hadrianopolis, a city in Paphlagonia. From childhood, he was dedicated to the service of God. He served as a deacon with Bishop Theodore in the church in that city. But, desirous of a life of solitude, prayer and meditation, Alypius withdrew to a Greek cemetery outside […]