Holy Glorious Prophet Elias

July 20, 2025

Feast of the Holy Glorious Prophet Elias

And [Elijah] said to her, “Give me your son,” and he took him out of her arms and carried him up to a loft where he slept and laid him on his own bed. He cried to the Lord and said, “O Lord, my God, have You brought tragedy upon the widow with whom I live by killing her son?” And he stretched himself upon the child three times and cried to the Lord and said, “O Lord, my God, I pray that You let this child’s soul come into him again.”

The Lord heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the child came into him again, and he was revived. Elijah took the child and brought him down out of the chamber into the house and returned him to his mother, and Elijah said, “See, your son lives!” (1 Kings 17:19-23)

The icon is of the Holy Glorious Prophet Elias (July 20th).

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Vatican prelate concelebrates Mass for feast in Moscow

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Moscow, Aug. 16, 2007 (CWNews.com) - A leading Vatican official heard a Russian prelate's reminder that the Catholic Church is alive in well in Moscow, as they concelebrated a Mass in Moscow's cathedral for the feast of the Assumption.

Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of Moscow told his visitor, Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, the former president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, that Catholicism is flourishing in Russia. "Although it is a small Church here," he said, "she lives, just as in France or Spain."

Preaching in his native French, Cardinal Etchegary reminded the congregation of his status as a roving diplomat for the Vatican by mentioning that last year he had celebrated the feast of the Assumption in Lebanon, where he was on a special mission. The cardinal had traveled to Russia to join in festivities for the 10th anniversary of the cathedral in Novosibirsk, Siberia. But during his visit Cardinal Etchegaray met with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei II, bringing a private message from the Holy Father and pressing for closer ecumenical ties between Moscow and Rome.