Saturday of the Dead
From the Synarxarion (Explanation) in the Triodion of THE SATURDAY OF THE DEAD Soul Saturday (Celebrated this year on March 9th) On this day, Soul Saturday, acc...
Author: Fr. Peter
Why Conservative Christians Should Oppose Teaching the Bible in Public Schools
Jonathan Merritt ~ Religion News Service On Sunday night, the long awaited mini-series “The Bible” premiered on the History Channel. Produced by reality TV mogu...
Sermon ~ Time to Return to Your Father’s House
The Gospel of Luke 15:11-32 The Lord said this parable: “There was a man who had two sons; and the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give...
Clerical Celibacy
With the resignation of Pope Benedict earlier this month, traditional media and social media have been a buzz with thoughts about a reformer Pope who will chang...
Sequestration
On Friday, March 1st, the United States faces what is being called Sequestration. Now, I do not know what the fine details are but what I do know is the US wil...
Sermon ~ Are You Ready for the Persecution
Today we begin the season known as the Triodion. The Triodion are the books that we will use now until after Pascha, and they contain all of the services for t...
Liturgy Returns to Oxford
Oxford’s Keble College played host to a very special ceremony when it welcomed Bishop Jerome of Manhattan, of the Russian Orthodox Church. When His Grace celebr...
Silence in Liturgy
When I first started to attend services at the Benedictine Monastery I would eventually call home, I was taken aback by the silence during the services. It see...
Freedom in the Kingdom of God
Spiritually there exists a difference between the life of the Orthodox lay person and the life of the Orthodox monastic. One is never to surrender their free w...
Sermon ~ Woman, Great is Your Faith
The Gospel of Matthew 15:21-28 At that time, Jesus went to the district of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and cried, &#...