On Christmas Day, the divine service in Orthodox churches takes several hours and includes several stages: Vespers, Matins ...

Christmas and New Year’s decorations in the box stores have now been replaced with Valentine’s Day decorations, and shortly we will be seeing Easter decorations as well. We go through seasons.

As we step into 2026, Greeks are gearing up for one of the most vibrant and spiritually significant periods of the year — the ...

Q: If the church's new year begins on the first Sunday of Advent, then why is the secular New Year's Day (Jan. 1) a holy day ...

Recently I gave bottles of a whimsically-named wine to colleagues who, like me, lead faith-based post-secondary institutions. The wine is called “Foolish.” I was not being passive-aggressive with this ...

Thanks to the widely adopted Gregorian calendar, most people have marked the new year on Jan. 1 for centuries. But with so many other calendar systems — such as the Chinese, Islamic or Hebrew calendar ...

The Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singers are taking audiences on a tour of operatic history this winter, with a ...

Commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ through ancient traditions, fasting, prayer, and midnight liturgies, rooted in the ...

Aughrim Lotto The numbers drawn in Aughrim’s sports club lotto on Monday January 5th were 2, 8, 14 and 27. There was one match three winner: Leonard Carroll c/o John Keenan. There was no jackpot ...

That exact sensation awaits adults at Rolling Hills Antique Mall in Harrisonburg, Virginia. In our disposable era of planned obsolescence and particle board furniture, there’s something deeply ...

Gwyneth Paltrow reflected on the moments she felt lost in her acting career, including when her kids Apple and Moses—whom she ...

The new song’s composer thought it could be a way to again hear from Black churches, collectively, about civil rights.