Relics of St. Nectarius Visit North America

From the end of May through early June relics of St. Nectarius of Pentapolis normally enshrined in Bucharest's Radu Voda Monastery will be visiting the parishes and monasteries of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of the Two Americas. The relics will begin their travels with the celebration of the new style feast of Sts. Constantine and Helena at the cathedral dedicated to their memory in Chicago. More here.

Relics of St. Nectarius Translated to Brasov, Romania

This Friday the city of Brasov will be celebrating the arrival from Greece of relics of St. Nectarius (Kephalas) the Wonderworker of Pentapolis and their enshrinement in the Church of Sts. Constantine and Helena. More here.

Quote of the Day: St. Nectarius of Pentapolis

Love should never be sacrified for the sake of some dogmatic difference.

St. Nectarius of Pentapolis

Joyous feast! St. Nectarius is one of the great saints of the late 1800s and early 1900s. God called him to services in both the ancient Church of Alexandria and the younger Church of Greece and has worked many miracles and wonders through him both in his lifetime and since his repose in 1920. An account of his life can be found here.

If you love St. Nectarius and are ever in upstate New York, then I strongly recommend visiting the Greek Orthodox monastery dedicated to him in Roscoe. If you don't speak Greek or are a woman and plan on staying overnight it might be a rough visit, but the services are beautiful and the frescoes of the Saint's life in the trapeza are well worth the asceticism of visiting ;-).

May St. Nectarius blessings and prayers be with us all!

Quote of the Day: St. Nectarius of Pentapolis

"God reveals Himself to the humble, who live in accordance with virtue. Those who take up the wings of the imgination attempt the flight of Icharus and have same end. Those who harbor fantasies do not pray; for he that prays lifts his mind and heart towrds God, whereas he that turns to fantasies diverts himself. Those who are addicted to the imagination have withdrawn from God's grace and from the realm of Divine revelation. They have abandoned the heart in which grace is revealed and have surrendered themselves to the imagination, which is devoid of all grace. It is only the heart that receives knowledge about things that are not apprehended by the senses, because God, Who dwells and moves within it, speaks within it and reveals to it the substance of things hoped for."