A Christian Understanding of Freedom
by Archbishop Dmitri of Dallas and the South (of Blessed Memory)People generally use the word freedom in order to describe two things: the first and perhaps mos...
Author: Fr. Peter
31 August ~ The Placing of the Cincture (Sash) of the Most Holy Mother of God
The Placing of the Venerable Belt of the Most Holy Theotokos in a church of Constantinople’s Chalcoprateia district took place during the reign of the emp...
31 August ~ St. Eanswythe
A Saxon princess who founded a nunnery on the coast near Folkestone, Kent. She was grand-daughter of King Saint Aethelbert. She is also known as Eanswida, Eansw...
31 August ~ St. Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne
Saint Aidan is said to have been a disciple of Saint Senan (f.d. March 8) on Scattery Island, but nothing else is known with certainty of his early life before ...
Prayer for Priests
I read many blogs on a daily basis. I thought of listing them all but I would need another blog just to do that. The other day I was reading the blo...
Hurricane Irene
Unless you live under a rock, you know that this past weekend, the eastern part of the United States suffered the effects of Hurricane Irene. By the time it rea...
29 August ~ Beheading of St. John the Baptist
The divine Baptist, the Prophet born of a Prophet, the seal of all the Prophets and beginning of the Apostles, the mediator between the Old and New Covenants, t...
Memory Eternal Archbishop Dmitri
Very sad to hear this news this morning. From the Diocese of the South OCA Orthodox Christians were deeply saddened to hear of the falling asleep in the Lord on...
Scripture Readings ~ 11th Sunday After Pentecost
Tone 2. Uncovering of the Relics of Ven. Job, Abbot and Wonderworker of Pochaev (1659). Ven. Moses the Black of Scete (4th c.). Righteous Anna the Prophetess, t...
On Rich and Poor Part 2
Several days ago I posted a quote by St. John Chrysostom regarding the relationship between the rich and the poor. One thing we need to remember about Church fa...