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Don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.                Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.                Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!                Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?                If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?                Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.                But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?                Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.                For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.                But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.               
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QUESTION:

I would like to know the meaning of the Day of Angel in Orthodox's belief.

Is it the same as the Christian name?

What is the name of an Angel whose Day of Angel is June 3?

ANSWER:

It is quite common among many Orthodox Christians to celebrate the feast day of the saint after whom they were named. In English this is called one's "Name Day" or "Patronal Feast Day." The Russian term for this would translate as "Angel Day." When greeting someone on their Name Day one would say, "S Dnyom Angelom," which literally translated means "With the Day of the Angel."

Of course, this makes no sense in English, where the term "Name Day" and the greeting "Happy Name Day" more clearly express the nature of the occasion.

There are a number of saints commemorated on June 3, including the Martyr Lucilian and those who suffered with him at Byzantium; the Hieromartyr Lucian and with him Julian and Maximian; St. Athanasius of Cilicia; St Prince Demetrius of Moscow; and several others.






Published in January 2011.








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