On the Road Again
I am off today to the 2011 Symposium Pilgrims and Pioneers: The Growth of Orthodox Christianity in 20th Century America sponsored by The Society for Orthodox Ch...
Author: Fr. Peter
His Beatitude Daniel Celebrates 4 Yrs of His Enthronement As Patriarch Of The Romanian Orthodox Church
The Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate informs us: Friday, 30 September 2011, it is four years since the enthronement of His Beatitude Daniel as Patriarc...
FOCUS North America ~ Tackle Poverty
I have written before about FOCUS North America. This is a great program that helps alleviate some of the suffering of poor Americans. Our Community...
Push out into the Deep
The Gospel reading for Sunday came from the 5th chapter of the Gospel of St. Luke. This is the story of Jesus going out to fish with His soon to be Apostles. Af...
Scripture Readings ~ 15th Sunday after Pentecost
15th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST — Tone 6. (1st of Luke) Repose of Ven. Sergius (Sérgii), Abbot and Wonderworker of Rádonezh (1392). Ven. Euphrosyne of Alexandria (5...
25 September ~ St. Finbar, First Bishop of Cork, and Confessor
He was the son of an artisan and a lady of the Irish royal court. Born in Connaught, Ireland, and baptized Lochan, he was educated at Kilmacahil, Kilkenny, wher...
24 September ~ Synaxis of All Saints of Alaska
On the anniversary of the arrival of the Russian missionaries in Alaska (1794), we remember the New Martyrs St Peter the Aleut, Protomartyr of America, and St J...
24 September ~ Martyr Juvenal of Alaska
Saint Juvenal, the Protomartyr of America, was born in 1761 in Nerchinsk, Siberia. His secular name was John Feodorovich Hovorukhin, and he was trained as a min...
24 September ~ Martyr Peter the Aleut
Saint Peter the Aleut is mentioned in the Life of St Herman of Alaska (December 13). Simeon Yanovsky (who ended his life as the schemamonk Sergius in the St Tik...
Morality (or lack of) in America
Wednesday night I was watching the X Factor on Fox. I tuned in for the second hour as I was watching something else. To my horror, and it would appear Paula Abd...