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Independence Day (July 4). Thanksgiving and Praise!

07/04/2023

By Archbishop Demetrios of America Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, On this Independence Day we offer thanksgiving and praise to God for the freedom we have as human beings created in His divine image and as citizens of a nation that values, protects and promotes freedom as essential to human life, well-being, and potential. As Orthodox Christians we know and affirm that God is the source of our freedom because He is the absolutely

God and the Fourth of July

07/04/2022

By Meir Soloveichik, July 1, 2016 5:18 pm ET On July 4, 1776, after voting to approve the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress advanced the following resolution: “That Dr. Franklin, Mr. J. Adams and Mr. Jefferson, be a committee, to bring in a device for a seal for the United States of America.” Of these three founders, two suggested seals that incorporated profoundly biblical images. Franklin, according to his own notes, proposed the following as

Remembering our Veterans

11/11/2020

By Archpriest Theodore Boback, Syosset, NY Two holidays are brought to us in the Orthodox Church in America on November 11—Veterans Day in the United States of America and Remembrance Day in Canada. In the United States, Veterans Day originally was celebrated as Armistice Day beginning in 1918, celebrating the end of World War I, the “War to end all Wars.” In 1954, the emphasis changed and the celebration and remembrance became known as Veterans

A July Fourth, 2017, Meditation

07/04/2017

John Hancock 1st Signer of the Declaration of Independence “Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual. … Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.” —History of the United States of America, Vol. II, p. 229. William Penn Founder of Pennsylvania “I do declare to the whole world that we believe

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