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January 26, 2020January 13, 2021 by St. Bartholomew Orthodox Church

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“We Orthodox Christians see the ritual of Circum

“We Orthodox Christians see the ritual of Circumcision was the Old Testament way of being baptized, because circumcision was the sign of the covenant between God and His people and required a sacrifice of flesh. Now, Christians are born anew of water and Spirit. God’s Sacrifice canceled the sacrifice of flesh, which is why we do not practice it anymore.

The Lord’s Circumcision reminds us that we have entered into a New Covenant with God. As it is stated in the New Testament, “In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses” (Col. 2:11-13)

With love and blessings,
Abbot Tryphon

Blessed Feast of the Circumcision of our Lord Jesus Christ!

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St. Porphyrios and the man from America. One day

St. Porphyrios and the man from America.

One day a man from America visited St. Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia and told him that he had arrived at the conclusion that there is no God.
St. Porphyrios did not react, but only told him:

“-You recently bought a field in California. Now that you are going back home go to the left side of the field, where there is a faucet, dig to a depth of 1-1,5 meters and you will find Spanish gold coins and an amphora! Go, do what I told you and then come back and let’s talk on whether there is a God.”

The man from America did not believe the elder’s sayings, however, when he returned back home and went to his field, he thought of digging just out of curiosity. Indeed, he dug at that place and found the exact number of the coins, their chronology and the amphora just as the Saint had told him!

The man from America was shocked. Next summer he visited again Saint Porphyrios and told him what had happened. The elder listened to him carefully and at the end, he told him:

“-My child, you do not know what exists in your own field, how can you know what exists in Heaven?”

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The Holy Martyred Infants who were killed by king Herod in Bethlehem are set before us today, by The Church, in Her great wisdom.

May The Lord give us eyes to see that the same evil spirit that ruled Herod and his administration is the same evil spirit that rules our generation and blinds the world today (as Father David reminded us all yesterday).

With over 42 million children aborted in 2020 and countless other children abused, trafficked and murdered, the darkness of our age is staggering. Let our Christian deeds and actions be courageous and strong and let our voices be heard as we stand against the biggest evil of our time, no matter the cost! Our Epistle reading for today provides a sober warning for us all to heed: “For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.”

Let us weep with tears of repentance... “A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted, because they are no more."

Let us struggle against the evil spirit of our age and commend our whole lives unto Christ our God. Let us defend the defenseless and lead with love, as we remember Christ’s words “These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”
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The day after The Nativity of our Lord and Savior

The day after The Nativity of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we fix our gaze on The Mother of God and celebrate the Synaxis of The Most Holy Theotokos! We sing with great joy 🎼

“He Who was born of the Father without mother before the morning star hath today become incarnate of thee on earth without father; wherefore, the star announceth glad tidings to the magi, and the angels and shepherds hymn thine ineffable birthgiving, O thou who art full of grace.”

“At the border between night and sunny day,
The dawn is rosy, pink and dewy.
The crimson dawn thou art, O Virgin given by God,
Precursor of the day, rosy and glorious.
Thou didst correct Eve and restore her to Paradise.
Do not withhold thy help from us sinners.
Israel crossed dry-shod over the Red Sea;
A cool spring flowed from the rock in the wilderness;
The bush burned but was not consumed—
As the dawn resembles the crimson eve,
So thou, O Virgin, dost resemble those foreshadowings.
O thou whom the Church calls the Mother of God,
Unknown to sin, not given to sin,
O Most-pure Mother of our Savior,
Because of thy purity thou wast chosen by God,
To bring down the Eternal Creator to earth.
That is why thou hast authority to pray for us,
And we have the joy of hymning and glorifying thee!

The Incarnation is the very heart of Christianity:

The Incarnation is the very heart of Christianity:

The ancient Christian faith of The Orthodox Church is Incarnational to it’s very core.

“God became Man, that man might become God”, proclaimed St. Athanasius of the 4th Century. In other words, Christ takes on flesh in order to make it possible for our flesh to take on God and be raised up into Him. The great mystery of mysteries, The Incarnation, allows for our salvation and eternal life “in Christ”.

In-“carne”-ation literally means en-flesh-ment. Our Lord becomes one of us in the Incarnation and our Holy Icons vividly communicate this to our hearts and minds. Jesus Christ, the God-Man, is the first to be truly Human, the new Adam. He invites each and every one of us to become truly human, like Him. Through His glorious Incarnation, He offers to join us to the eternal circle of Love in The Holy Trinity!

Join the chorus of Saints, Martyrs and the hosts of heaven and cry aloud: “Christ is born! Glorify Him!”

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