by alex-focus | Mar 24, 2019 | 40 days with FOCUS, FOCUS House - Minnesota
Saint Gregory of Palamas Sunday Kontakion – Tone 4 Now is the time for action! Judgment is at the doors! So let us rise and fast, offering alms with tears of compunction and crying: “Our sins are more in number than the sands of the sea; but forgive us, O Master of...
by alex-focus | Mar 18, 2019 | 40 days with FOCUS, St. Herman House - FOCUS Cleveland
On the Sunday of Orthodoxy, we celebrate the restoration of the use of holy icons, holy images, in the Orthodox Christian Church. In affirming the use of icons at the Seventh Ecumenical Council in 787, the church, at the same time, was affirming the incarnation of...
by alex-focus | Mar 10, 2019 | 40 days with FOCUS
It’s Forgiveness Sunday… Forgive me, a sinner. God forgives, and I forgive. Every year we bow before each other with these words on our lips. We exchange the kiss of peace with friends, family, and even strangers. Often on Forgiveness Sunday, it’s...
