All of us have heard the saying,"beauty is only skin deep". Saint Kyriaki is another of the virgin Saints who was well known for her physical beauty. Father Micah shares with us tonight that Saint Kyriaki literally shown like the sun because she had the light of Christ inside of her heart.

Today in Orthodoxy we commemorate Saints Cosmas and Damian the unmercenaries. Father Gregory shares with us they belong to a group of Saints known as healer saints. These brothers were doctors who healed without pay and said the only thing they wanted for their service was that the healed believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Faith in God and His Son Jesus Christ gives us power to heal and justifies us before God. The Orthodox Christian Church has passed down the faith of the Apostles for centuries. Father Paul shares a short refection on the lives of Peter and Paul both of whom followed Jesus Christ by faith.

In our society many of us do not experience a life of struggle but rather one of ease. Today in Orthodoxy we commemorate the Nativity of John the Baptist a great Saint who gave up everything to follow Jesus. He struggled by living ascetically and preached a message of repentance as he prepared the way for Our Lord.

The custom in Orthodoxy after a Major Feast is to remember a major person through whom it came to pass. Today is known as the Monday of the Holy Spirit and it is the day after Pentecost. Father Gregory shares with us the importance of the Holy Spirit in our lives and in the life of the Church.

Father Gregory shares with us why Orthodox Christians pray for the dead as well as historical facts about kollyiva and it use at memorial services.

Father Micah shares with us a few words about the lives of these apostles who were sent out establishing churches and ordaining bishops and priests.

One of the great paradoxes of the Christian Faith is in Jesus saying I will never leave you and yet He Ascends to the Father. Father Micah shares with us today how we may find Our Lord each and every day through Christian living and the Sacramental life of the Church.

Today is one of the great feasts of the church and is known as Mid-Pentecost. After the healing of the paralytic Jesus went into the temple to teach and astounded the people because His learning was not from this world, but was received with the Father from before all ages. This feast is the meeting point that brings together both Pascha and Pentecost. The Father's of the Church say that we receive Grace from both Feast's.