Holy Glorious Prophet Elias

July 20, 2025

Feast of the Holy Glorious Prophet Elias

And [Elijah] said to her, “Give me your son,” and he took him out of her arms and carried him up to a loft where he slept and laid him on his own bed. He cried to the Lord and said, “O Lord, my God, have You brought tragedy upon the widow with whom I live by killing her son?” And he stretched himself upon the child three times and cried to the Lord and said, “O Lord, my God, I pray that You let this child’s soul come into him again.”

The Lord heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the child came into him again, and he was revived. Elijah took the child and brought him down out of the chamber into the house and returned him to his mother, and Elijah said, “See, your son lives!” (1 Kings 17:19-23)

The icon is of the Holy Glorious Prophet Elias (July 20th).

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Patriarch criticizes Vatican’s ‘bureaucratic interference’

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CWM - In a recent talk on the challenges facing the Chaldean Catholic Church, Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako criticized “bureaucratic interference” from the Vatican’s Congregation for the Eastern Churches.

The patriarch was particularly critical of the Congregation’s decision to overturn his suspension of priests who fled Iraq without the patriarchate’s permission and were ministering in Chaldean parishes abroad.

Stating that the Eastern Catholic churches “know our situation better than anyone else,” the patriarch said that “it is expected that the Congregation of Eastern Churches would support and empower the patriarch.”

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