Experience God (Message)

Details: By Metropolitan Demetrius of America; Created on Wednesday, 10 January 2024 23:56

These are not just events. These events are there in order that we may experience God.

A strange and marvelous mystery do I behold; the cave is a heaven; the Virgin a cherubic throne; the manger a space wherein Christ God the Uncontainable One is contained...

Message delivered on the eve of the Nativity of Our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ by His Eminence Metropolitan Demetrius of America at Saint John of San Francisco Orthodox Monastery, Cobleskill, NY.

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