Saint Euthymius the Great came from the city of Melitene in Armenia, near the River Euphrates. His parents, Paul and Dionysia, were pious Christians of noble birth. After many years of marriage they remained childless, and in their sorrow they entreated God to give them offspring. Finally, they had a vision and heard a voice [...]
Our sister in the faith, Rose Marie Manis, fell asleep iin the Lord on January 15. She was the beloved wife of the late James C. Manis; loving mother of Athena Kaiser (Ken) and Maria Cornelius (Fred); grandmother of James, Amalia and Nicholas Kaiser and Patrick and Michael Cornelius; sister of Ethel Levathes and the [...]
Sophia Diane Ward (nee Maroules), fell asleep in the Lord surrounded with love on January 14, 2022. She is the beloved wife of Robert Ward, loving daughter of Harriet Maroules and the late John Maroules. She was the beloved sister of Efrem (Beth) Maroules and Kristina Cherished sister-in-law of Margaret (Earl) Gamache, Patty Ethridge and [...]
Saint Anthony the Great is known as the Father of monasticism, and the long ascetical sermon in The Life of Saint Anthony by Saint Athanasius (Sections 16-34), could be called the first monastic Rule. He was born in Egypt in the village of Coma, near the desert of the Thebaid, in the year 251. His [...]
Our Holy Father Saint Theodosius the Great lived during the fifth-sixth centuries, and was the founder of cenobitic monasticism. This form of monastic life brings together a group of monks or nuns to live and pray together, versus the eremitic monastic life (the earliest type) where monks and nuns live solitary lives of prayer, apart [...]