January 1st: Blessed the New Year 2013
On January 1st we commemorate the Circumcision of Our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ; and, Saint Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea. Apolytikion of the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ (Mode 1) In essence being God, most-compassionate Master, You assumed human nature without transmutation. Fulfilling the Law, of Your own […]
January 1st: The Dual Feast of Saint Basil the Great and the Circumcision of Christ
The feast of the Circumcision of Christ and the feast of Saint Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesaria Cappadocia
Basil the Great and Disfigured Christianity
I want to speak on Saint Basil, but I don’t want to say what is commonly told by those who write about this truly “Great” saint. Especially some theologians who are educated by the Franks, who don’t care at all about his holiness or his wisdom according to God, but rather his “classical” wisdom, his […]
Saint Basil on Human Trafficking
Christianity has uprooted many barbaric customs from the society of man. But some of those customs – praiseworthy from the pagan point of view, but shameful from the Christian point of view – are, even to the present day, like hidden corruption oozing from a supposedly healed wound. One of these customs is the unlawful […]
Miracle of Saint Basil the Great against the Arians
While the wicked Emperor Valens was in Nicaea, prominent Arians approached him requesting that he drive the Orthodox from the cathedral and give it to them. The ruler, himself a heretic, forcibly removed the faithful and allowed the dissenters to occupy the building, after which he left for the Imperial City. The entire community of […]