So what’s in a Name?
This just might get some people’s blood boiling but, that’s what I am here for. LOL Yesterday, whilst running errands, I was listening to a podcast on Ancient F...
Author: Fr. Peter
Hard Work
The monastic life is separated if you will into three parts; Prayer, Divine Reading, and Manual Labor. When I was a member of the Benedictine Community we...
16 November ~ St. Margaret of Scotland
Born about 1045, died 16 Nov., 1092, was a daughter of Edward “Outremere”, or “the Exile”, by Agatha, kinswoman of Gisela, the wife of S...
The Poor You Will Always Have with You
There is no doubt in my mind but that Jesus has a preferential option for the poor. We see that He would rather eat with those less fortunate and never actually...
30 (40) Days of Blogging
Each year Fr. John Peck, at the Preachers Institute Blog, runs a program for pastoral bloggers old and new. The idea is to get us pastors to blog during t...
The Good Samaritan
Yesterday was one of those rare occasions where I did not have to preach. One of the many challenges of pastoral ministry, for me anyway, is preaching. Orthodox...
Uncles
I have been blessed in my life with some great uncles. Uncles are the guys that teach you stuff that others might not teach you. My Uncle Ron, who passed away t...
Joe Paterno and the Rape of a Child
I will admit I am a latecomer to this news. I heard it on the radio when it first broke but it really did not register in my mind until I really started to list...
Mission Conference
The Missions Institute of Orthodox Christianity and Hellenic College/Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology are sponsoring a Missions Conference on “Ortho...
The Gospel: Nourishment in the Wilderness
The Gospel was the daily bread of the desert solitaries. At the beginning of their monastic journey, as we see in the case of St. Antony the Great, the wo...