When Joseph first saw the mighty wonder, he thought he saw only a human child wrapped in swaddling clothes. But from all that came to pass, he discovered the Child to be the True God Who grants the world great mercy! [Vespers of the Prefeast of the Nativity]
Christmas tells the same wonderful story…
Do not forsake me, O Lord! O my God, be not far from me!
Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!
(Psalm 38: 21-22)
“The Lord guides a man safely in the way he should go” (Ps 37:23).
Saint Innocent of Alaska left behind this verse as a theme for the sermon to be preached…
In a piece published in the Telegraph at www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10458380/Christianity-at-risk-of-dying-out-in-a-generation-warns-Lord-Carey.html, we learn that a former…
For with Thee is the fountain of life, and in Thy light shall we see light.
Continue Thy mercy unto those who know Thee.
Psalm 36:9-10 (Great Doxology)
In an article titled “A Moveable Fast,” the scholar Elyssa East summarized the history of our American Thanksgiving, and the intentions and practices of the early New England colonists toward this national feast. Initially, she writes, Thanksgiving was built around the Christian rhythm of fasting and feasting. Bearing…