PRAYING TO THE GOOD ONE (Wednesday, June 7) “O Heavenly King, the Comforter (Paráklite, Utéshitelyu), the Spirit of Truth, Who art everywhere and fillest all

THE POOR IN SPIRIT, BY THE SPIRIT (Tuesday, June 6) “Blessed are the poor in spirit (τῷ πνεύματι, духом), for theirs is the kingdom of

THE DAY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT (Monday, June 5) This Monday right after Pentecost, called the Day of the Holy Spirit, we celebrate the main

PENTECOST SUNDAY (June 4) Pentecost or Day 50 after our Lord’s resurrection is the day the Holy Spirit chose to descend on the Apostles and

MEMORIAL SATURDAY BEFORE PENTECOST (Saturday, June 3) The Saturday immediately before Pentecost Sunday, we commemorate all the deceased, “from Adam and even until today,” as

LET US DEPART IN PEACE (Friday, June 2) “I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should

SCATTERED, EACH TO HIS OWN (Thursday, June 1) This Thursday morning I’m thinking about how divided we are these days, scattered to our own little

JOY-CREATING SORROW (Wednesday, May 31) In today’s Gospel-reading our Lord again talks about a productive kind of sorrow; the kind in which we are born