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Explore a collection of articles, reflections, and updates that nurture your spiritual journey. From teachings and prayer guides to community news and church events, stay connected and inspired through the rich life of St. Michael Orthodox Christian Church.

Official key art for El Tonto Por Cristo: a bearded monk wearing a gold crown and a three-bar cross rests his head on his hand beside a skull, on a black background with the film's title.
  • Parish News

Men’s Society Hosts Screening of El Tonto Por Cristo

More than 40 people joined the Men's Society in the Parish Hall on October 2 to watch El Tonto Por Cristo, an Orthodox film about a holy fool at a monastery on the Texas coast.

 

Thin beeswax candles burning in a brass sand tray inside a dim Orthodox church.
  • Icons & Sacred Art

Church Etiquette: Reverencing Icons

How to venerate an icon or relic, where to kiss it, and when not to go up.

 

A freshly painted classroom with rows of wooden chairs and a wall-mounted screen, in soft afternoon light.
  • Parish Council

Parish Council Corner: October 2026

A new deacon, finished classrooms, and the date for Med Fest 2027. From Michael Edd, Parish Council Chairman.

 

Small orange pumpkins, a stack of books, and a jar of colored pencils on a wooden classroom table by an autumn window.
  • Sunday School

October Is Youth Month

Sunday School started October 4. This month our children take a more active role in the life of the parish.

 

A wooden table in a parish hall with a coffee urn, a stack of plates, an embroidered white linen cloth, and a small vase of flowers in morning light.
  • Ladies Altar Society

Ladies Altar Society Meets October 7

Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 10:00 a.m., in the Parish Hall, followed by lunch.

 

A plain carved wooden cross on a worn dark table beside a lit beeswax candle and a closed leather-bound book, in warm candlelight.
  • Archdiocese News

The Cross of Pleasure

A summary of Metropolitan SABA's reflection on why pleasure sought apart from God becomes a heavier cross than any trial.

 

Metropolitan SABA, in gold vestments, raises the hand of newly ordained Deacon Lazarus Nichols, in red and gold vestments, before the iconostasis after the ordination.
  • Parish News

Axios! Deacon Lazarus Nichols Ordained

Metropolitan SABA ordained Subdeacon Lazarus Nichols of St. Michael to the holy diaconate on September 6, 2026.

 

An open book resting face-down beside a single lit beeswax candle on a dark wooden desk.
  • Archdiocese News

The Faithful and Secularism, Part One

His Eminence Metropolitan SABA (Isper) on secularism: what it is, how it took hold, and how it has entered the heart of the Church.

 

Open wooden doors looking from the narthex into an Orthodox nave, a brass candle stand lit with beeswax candles before the iconostasis.
  • Becoming Orthodox

Thursday Night Inquirer Class Sessions

Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. through the fall and spring seasons, led by Fr. Michael. September's session is Thursday the 17th.

 

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