16 May ~ Brendan the Voyager
Abbot of Clonfert (6th cent.) He was born around 484 at Tralee in Kerry, Ireland. He founded several monasteries in Ireland, of which the chief was Cluain Ferta...
Author: Fr. Peter
Church in Decline
This comes from a Protestant Source but I think there is much here that we Orthodox can learn from. Based on statistics I have seen all Churches, regardle...
Orthodox History Symposium
I have been invited to present a paper at the Symposium being co-sponsored by the Society for Orthodox Christan History in the Americas and the the Fr. Georges ...
Orthodoxy and the Rapture
Update: With all of this talk of the world coming to an end on May 21st I thought I would re post this article I wrote some time back. The other thing I w...
7 May ~ Our Father Among the Saints Alexis Toth of Wilkes-Barre
Our holy Father Alexis, the defender of the Orthodox Faith and zealous worker in the Lord’s vineyard, was born in Austro-Hungary on March 18, 1854 into a ...
Osama is Dead. Now What Should I Feel?
Sunday night, like most of the world, I was captivated by the announcement that the President of the United States would be making a statement at 10:30 p.m...
Finding God in the Ordinary
Most everyone’s life is very ordinary. We rise in the morning, go about our business and the world does not pay us any attention at all outside of our cir...
Top Posts April 2011
Here are the top posts for April 2011 on the blog. Thanks for visiting! Mystery SolvedEaster Eggs not Spring SpheresChrist is RisenSpy WednesdayFeasting D...
Sermon ~ Lord I Believe, Help My Unbelief!
Sunday of St. Thomas Sunday of St. ThomasJohn 20:19-31 Today the Church remembers a person of great faith but also a person of great doubt. The Gospel story we ...
Mystery Solved
On Holy Thursday in the Orthodox Church, the priest consecrates a second Lamb (consecrated bread mixed with some wine) that is put into the Tabernacle and used ...