In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen. Dear beloved, Saint Ioannikios was a brave soldier when he was young, and was an iconoclast at first.
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In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen. My beloved, we remember the birth of Saint John the Forerunner (or St John the Baptist). In the Church, we view Saint John as the last of the Old Testament prophets, serving as a bridge between the Old Testament and the New Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ.
In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen. My beloved, today we celebrate the feast day of Saint Alladius, a 6th century bishop and martyr who refused to sacrifice Orthodoxy.
In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen. My beloved, everyday, we thank our Triune God, for being an everlasting and abiding love for all of us, no matter what wretched state we sink into.