February 15, 2017

Missionary synaxary

Saint Onesimos and the ministry of the prisoners

What does slave mean? Just a name. How many masters are lying on the mattress and getting drunk, while the slaves are standing close by, awake! Who shall I call a slave? He who is sober or he who is drunk? The slave of man or the captive of passion? He has bondage outside, he walks about with captivity inside…

60 years later: Event in memory of Holy Missionaries