December 07, 2025

In our Saints Constantine and Helen Church today, we celebrate our Saint Nicholas Sunday which honors one of the most beloved saints in the entire Christian world—Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra. Yet we also live in a culture that knows him by another name: Santa Claus, Sinter Klaus, Father Christmas. And while the world around us has taken this figure and wrapped him in commercialism, glitter, and shopping lists, there is still something deeply beautiful, deeply Orthodox, hidden inside the popular image of Santa Claus. Read more »