A social media Reformation?
By Terry Mattingly As every avid Twitter user knows, there are only 140 characters in a “tweet” and that includes the empty spaces. The bishops gathered at the ...
Author: Fr. Peter
Farming in America
I just finished watching the movie Country staring Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard. The movie is about an Iowa farm family and the struggle against making a...
The Day After
So here it is the day after Thanksgiving, aka Black Friday here in US, and now that we have given thanks for all those things that God has blessed us with we ar...
A Thanksgiving Blessing
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21 November ~ Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple
Today let us the crowds of the assembled faithful celebrate a spiritual feast: let us reverently praise the Virgin Theotokos and child of God, as she is brought...
This is Just Awesome
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Black Bean Soup
A few weeks ago I started a new feature called Recipe Wednesday, well it did not work out all that great. So I will now try and post a recipe each week ma...
Community Meal
Last night we held our monthly Community Meal here at the Church. Each month we offer a meal to people in the Community from all walks of life. We h...
Almsgiving
In yesterday’s post I wrote about why we do what we do during this time of year. Another important aspect of Christmas Lent is Almsgiving. This is not jus...
Christmas Lent
On Monday, we Orthodox began a period on our church calendar called Christmas Lent or Advent. Yes we have begun Advent. As I mentioned in my sermon on Sunday, A...