Top Posts for February 2011
Here are the top ten posts for February 2011 Email Roman Catholic and Orthodox Differences on Original Sin Saturday of the Souls Parastas (Paos) Service Cremati...
Author: Fr. Peter
28 February ~ St. John Cassian
Our venerable and God-bearing Father John Cassian was a 4th/5th century monastic saint known for his writings on the monastic life and for correctives of the an...
Sunday of the Last Judgment
The foregoing two parables — especially that of the Prodigal Son — have presented to us God’s extreme goodness and love for man. But lest cert...
27 February ~ St. Raphael of Brooklyn
St. Raphael (Hawaweeny), the first Orthodox bishop consecrated in the New World, was born in Beirut, on or near the Synaxis of the Archangels, November 8, 1860,...
Saturday of the Souls
Each year, before the start of the Great Lent, we commemorate the dead on the Saturday of the Souls. This is the day that all of the names of those who ha...
Should the US Intervene in Lybia?
Yesterday, whilst reading my monring blogs, I was listening to a radio program. The topic of the drive time radio was Should the US Intervene in Lybia?&nb...
23 February ~ St. Boisil
Abbot of Melrose Abbey, Scotland, d. 664. Almost all that is known of St. Boisil is learnt from Bede (Eccles. Hist., IV, xxvii, and Vita Cuthberti). He derived ...
Continue In What You Have Learned and Firmly Believed
V. Rev. Fr. Nicholas ApostolaSt. Nicholas Orthodox Church This week we begin the Triodion, the Church’s hymn book for Great Lent leading to Pascha. While Lent i...
Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee
The Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee begins the Lenten Triodion, the liturgical book used in the services of Great Lent. It is the Sunday after the Sunday of...
I am Getting Old!
Shortly after my graduation from High School in 1984 I enlisted in the United States Army. I served on Active Duty for three years is such exotic places a...