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).

News

New York Times sees warming relations between Vatican, Moscow patriarchate

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2009-05-22 - Spotting what it sees as a distinctively positive trend in relations between the Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches, an analytical piece for the New York Times speculates that the goal of a summit meeting between the Pope and the Patriarch of Moscow may be within reach. Metropolitan Hilarion of Vienna, a major spokesman for the Moscow patriarchate in ecumenical affairs, destroys some preconceptions about ecumenism when offers a revealing perspective on why such a summit meeting seems more likely for this pontificate: "This pope, in contrast to the previous one, doesn’t strive to always be politically correct… He believes he must speak of the teachings of the Catholic church. The task of such a church figure, especially of such rank, is to clearly state the teaching of the church, even if it doesn’t correspond to contemporary standards of political correctness."

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