FEAST OF ST. RAPHAEL OF BROOKLYN (NOV. 6TH)
Icon by the Hand of Kh. Erin Kimmett By Bp. Joseph ( Archeparchate ) Today we celebrate with our Antiochian brothers and sisters our common Hierarch and Father in the Faith, St. Raphael of Brooklyn. He canonically helped to re-establish our Church and Apostolic Succession, despite many of the false-starts and detours our Church took over the last century. Saint Raphael was glorified by the whole Orthodox Church in 2000, but our jurisdiction venerated him as a saint from the late 1950's. THE LIFE OF ST. RAPHAEL “On the Sunday of Orthodoxy in 1911, Bishop Raphael was honored for his fifteen years of pastoral ministry in America. Archbishop PLATON presented him with a silver-covered icon of Christ and praised him for his work. In his humility, Bishop Raphael could not understand why he should be honored merely for doing his duty (Luke 17:10). He considered himself an ‘unworthy servant,’ yet he did perfectly the work that fell to him (Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to ...
