Read the Gospel according to St. Luke 14:25-33. It is a great privilege to follow Our Lord Jesus Christ, but it is very costly. 1. To follow Jesus, you must serve Him before all others. This is the cost of service: "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple." (Luke 14:26) 2. To follow Jesus, you mush subordinate your own interests to the interests of Christ. This is…

Angel means "messenger." This is the main purpose God created the angels, to send them as messengers to serve the human race. Since the beginning of the creation, angels have appeared to people to tell them about the will of God. Adam and Eve were banished by an angel with a flaming sword: "So He drove out the man; and He cherubim at the east of the Garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life." (Genesis 3:24) Angels…

We celebrate the Feast of the Cross twice a year in our church: the first, on September 27, commemorates the discovery of the Holy Cross by the Empress Helen, the mother of Emperor Constantine; and the second, on March 19, commemorates the manifestation of the Holy Cross in the seventh century during the reign of Roman emperor Heraclius. St. Athanasius the Apostolic wrote in his Festal Letters, 22.1 in the year 350 A.D.: When Our Lord Jesus Christ, who took it upon Himself to die for all, stretched forth Hishands…