Today on Mother’s Day we remember our Mother of all Mothers, the ever blessed Virgin Mary ☦️🙏🏼![]()
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Our spiritual mother, the Church, the Body and bride of Christ, joins in honoring and recognizing all earthly mothers, true Christian loving mothers who neglect no part of their children’s upbringing, particularly that which concerns the Christian life here and for eternity. ![]()
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As Mother of the Church as well as our mother, the Panagia is the sign and symbol of total openness to God, total discipleship – she being the first among her Divine Son’s followers. A woman of precious few words in the Gospel, Mary led by doing, by her holy actions which had their root in the love she bore for the Holy One who took flesh from her flesh, life from her life.![]()
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St. Ephraim the Syrian, caught up in the joy of Mary’s motherhood, wrote: “Come, let us wonder at the virgin most pure, wondrous in herself, unique in creation, she gave birth, yet knew no man; her pure soul with wonder was filled, daily her mind gave praise in joy at the twofold wonder: her virginity preserved, her child most dear. Blessed is He who shone forth from her!”![]()
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We wish all the wonderful mothers in our community a Happy and Blessed Mother’s Day! 🩷💐☦️
May 10, 2026 - Sunday of the Samaritan Woman![]()
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One of the most ancient cities of the Promised Land was Shechem, also called Sikima, located at the foot of Mount Gerazim. There the Israelites had heard the blessings in the days of Moses and Jesus of Navi. Near to this town, Jacob, who had come from Mesopotamia in the nineteenth century before Christ, bought a piece of land where there was a well. This well, preserved even until the time of Christ, was known as Jacob’s Well. Later, before he died in Egypt, he left that piece of land as a special inheritance to his son Joseph (Gen. 49:22). This town, before it was taken into possession by Samaria, was also the leading city of the kingdom of the ten tribes. In the time of the Romans it was called Neapolis, and at present Nablus. It was the first city in Canaan visited by the Patriarch Abraham. Here also, Jesus of Navi (Joshua) addressed the tribes of Israel for the last time. Almost three hundred years later, all Israel assembled there to make Roboam (Rehoboam) king.![]()
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When our Lord Jesus Christ, then, came at midday to this city, which is also called Sychar (John 4:5), He was wearied from the journey and the heat, and He sat down at this well. After a little while the Samaritan woman mentioned in today’s Gospel passage came to draw water. As she conversed at some length with the Lord and heard from Him secret things concerning herself, she believed in Him; through her many other Samaritans also believed.![]()
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May 6, 2026 - 4th Wednesday after Pascha - Mid-Pentecost![]()
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After the Saviour had miraculously healed the paralytic, the Jews, especially the Pharisees and Scribes, were moved with envy and persecuted Him, and sought to slay Him, using the excuse that He did not keep the Sabbath, since He worked miracles on that day. Jesus then departed to Galilee. About the middle of the Feast of Tabernacles, He went up again to the Temple and taught. The Jews, marvelling at the wisdom of His words, said, “How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?” But Christ first reproached their unbelief and lawlessness, then proved to them by the Law that they sought to slay Him unjustly, supposedly as a despiser of the Law, since He had healed the paralytic on the Sabbath. Therefore, since the things spoken by Christ in the middle of the Feast of Tabernacles are related to the Sunday of the Paralytic that is just passed, and since we have already reached the midpoint of the fifty days between Pascha and Pentecost, the Church has appointed this present feast as a bond between the two great feasts, thereby uniting, as it were, the two into one, and partaking of the grace of them both. Therefore today’s feast is called Mid-Pentecost, and the Gospel Reading, “At Mid-feast”—though it refers to the Feast of Tabernacles—is used.![]()
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We’re looking for volunteers to help at our Picnic Event on May 30th and we’d love to have YOU!![]()
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Please fill out the form in the link in our bio or email events@prophetelias.ca and let us know! ![]()
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We thank you greatly for your support, we can’t make this a success without you! ❤️🙏🏼
May 5 - Irene the Great Martyr![]()
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Saint Irene was the daughter of a princelet called Licinius; named Penelope by her parents, through a divine revelation she was brought to faith in Christ and at Baptism was renamed Irene. In her zeal for piety she broke in pieces all the idols of her father, who commanded that she be trampled underfoot by horses. But while she remained unharmed, one of the horses rose up and cast down her father, killing him. By her prayer she raised him to life again, and he believed and was baptized. Afterwards, in many journeyings, Saint Irene suffered torments and punishments for her faith, but was preserved by the power of God, while working dread miracles and converting many thousands of souls. At last she came to Ephesus, where she fell asleep in peace, in the first half of the fourth century. Two days after her death, her gravestone was found lifted off, and her grave empty. At least two churches were dedicated to Saint Irene in Constantinople, and she is also the patroness of the Aegean island of Thera, which is commonly called Santorin (or Santorini), a corruption of “Saint Irene.”
