COVID-19 CATECHESIS
SAINT VASILIJE OF OSTROG

An   ALMSGIVING    Opportunity
to help those impacted by Covid-19

Reflections and Daily Inspiration
“Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.”

— St. Paul, Philippians 4:6
TODAY'S RECOMMENDATION
The icons of Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt
 (Painting)

The icons of Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt
FROM THE NEWS
Third online Archontariki from Mount Athos on Saturday

Third online Archontariki from Mount Athos, with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, will take place on Saturday from 10.00 to 12.30, Athens time, or 08.00 to 10.30 GMT.

Archontariki in Greek means the guest house in a monastery.
You can register via a webpage form posted on the Orthodoxia news agency and the online magazine Pemptousia.

Due to the heightened interest, registration will be on a first-come, first-serve basis.
SAINT OF THE DAY

 MAY 15 / MAY 2
1. The Holy Martyrs Hesperus, Zoe, Cyriacus and Theodulus, at Attalia (ca. 124)

During the reign of Emperor Hadrian (117–138), a pagan named Catallus purchased as slaves Hesperus, his wife Zoe, and their sons Cyriacus and Theodulus. Since they were steadfast Christians, they would not taste anything that had been sacrificed to the idols, but threw all that had been thus offered to the dogs, and they themselves hungered and endured. Learning of this, Catallus became enraged and began to torture his slaves cruelly. First he tortured the children, but the children remained unwavering in the Faith and even sought harsher torture from their persecutors. Finally, all four were thrown into a fiery furnace, where after prayers of thanksgiving they gave up their souls to the Lord. Their bodies remained intact, unconsumed by the fire.