Tebowmania
Denver Broncos Photo Well the long awaited football game is over and the New England Patriots beat the Denver Broncos. As expected the haters came out before th...
Author: Fr. Peter
Greek church protests pre-trial detention of Abbot Efraim
Abbot Efraim The autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece has called for the release of Abbot Efraim, the head of the Vatopedi Monastery in Mount Athos, who is c...
The Art of Listening
The very first line that St. Benedict wrote in his rule for monastics is “listen.” All of the literature on prayer instructs us that half of prayer is listening...
12 January ~ St. Benedict Biscop
Abbot of St. Augustine’s, Canterbury, Abbot of Wearmouth, Abbot of Jarrow. Died: 12th January AD 689 at Wearmouth, Co Durham. Biscop Baducing was born in ...
Followers as Mirrors
What is the best way to gauge the effectiveness of our leadership? I would say it is how the people you lead follow you. There is a quote I heard somewhere, and...
Leaders Take Responsibility
Not everyone lives under the same rules. Sometimes we hold people to a higher standard than others in all that they do and leaders would be included in this gro...
7 January ~ St. Fursey, Abbot of Lagny, near Paris
He was the son of Fintan, son of Finloga, prince of South Muster, and Gelgesia, daughter of Aedhfinn, prince of Hy-Briuin in Connaught. He was born probably amo...
7 January ~ Cedd of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons
St. Cedd was the eldest of four holy brothers, born into a noble Northumbrian family at the beginning of the 7th century. With his siblings, Cynebil, Caelin �...
Church Leadership
When one thinks of the Orthodox Church one thinks of many things, worship, theology, etc. the term leadership is not one that springs to mind right away. Oh sur...
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 ...