COVID-19 CATECHESIS
COMMEMORATION OF THE APPEARANCE OF THE PRECIOUS CROSS OVER JERUSALEM
An   ALMSGIVING   Opportunity
to help those impacted by Covid-19 in Serbia and the USA

Reflections and Daily Inspiration
Let us venerate the Cross of the Lord, offering our tender affection as the cypress, the sweet fragrance of our faith as the cedar, and our sincere love as the pine.; and let us glorify our Deliverer who was nailed upon it.

- Lenten Triodian
TODAY'S RECOMMENDATION
The Beauty of the Cross
Be the Bee #29

The Cross was an instrument of death. How did it become an instrument of life? And what can that teach us about being the bee?
FROM THE NEWS
A NATIONWIDE APPROACH OF THE ASSEMBLY OF CANONICAL ORTHODOX BISHOPS OF THE USA FOR THE STAGED REOPENING OF CHURCHES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

In this time of global pandemic, the majority of the Faithful of our Churches have been withheld from receiving Holy Communion and attending Divine Services in order to safeguard their health and the health of others. We, the Hierarchs of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the USA , are taking action to restore the possibility of Holy Eucharist to the “lambs” of Christ, in accordance with His word.
SAINT OF THE DAY

 MAY 20 / MAY 7
Commemoration of the Appearance of the Honorable Cross over Jerusalem in a.d. 351.

During the time of St. Constantine’s son, Emperor Constantius, and Patriarch Cyril of Jerusalem, the Honorable Cross appeared about 9:00 a.m., stretching from Golgotha to above the Mount of Olives. This Cross was brighter than the sun and more beautiful than the most beautiful rainbow. All the people, both believing and unbelieving, left their work and observed this heavenly sign in fear and amazement. Many unbelievers converted to the Christian Faith, and many Arian heretics abandoned their evil heresy and returned to Orthodoxy. About this sign, Patriarch Cyril wrote a letter to Emperor Constantius, who had inclinations toward Arianism. This occurred on May 7, 357. Thus, even on this occasion it was demonstrated that the Christian Faith is not worldly theorizing, according to the sensual understanding of man. Rather it is God’s power, demon- strated through numerous miracles and signs.