Sermon: Sunday of All Saints
Last week I mentioned the holy oil that is blessed by the Patriarch and is used during the sacrament of Chrismation. That oil, blessed by His Beatitude and the...
Category: Blog
Welcome to the New Site
Welcome to the new and improved frpeterpreble.com I am glad you have taken time to stop by. The blog has now been moved and is in the process of being tweeked. ...
Orthodox Campus Ministry
In my way of looking at things, Campus Ministry is one of the most important aspects of ministry a church can be involved in. Young people on campus are the fu...
5 Reasons to Visit a Monastery
(Originally published on OCN’s The Sounding) Published here with Permission Introduction: Journeying by boat to visit their beloved spiritual father, Constantin...
Courage in Leadership
One of the fundamental characteristics of a good leader, no, strike that, a great leader is courage. Of all the skills that leaders, especially leaders in the C...
Orthodox Evangelism
I serve what I guess would be considered a small church. We have about 65 families and we are located in an old mill town in Central Massachusetts that long ag...
Red Eggs at Pascha
If you have been following these pages for the last few months you know that in the fall I acquired a flock of chickens, seven to be exact. During that time I h...
St. Brigit on Fasting and Hospitality
Once, St. Brigit and two of her sister nuns were traveling during Lent, and it so happened that they were offered hospitality by a pagan chieftain whose land th...
Temptation
The Temptation of Jesus We all know the scene, a person standing there trying to make the decision and on one shoulder stands the guy in the red suit and on the...
Engaged Monasticism
I have been writing about monastic topics for the last few years. I have been trying to develop a sense of what I have called the “new monasticism” although it ...