A Thanksgiving Blessing
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Author: Fr. Peter
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...
One Word at a Time ~ Gratitude
As I have mentioned before I participate in a blog carnival where all of the participants blog about one word at a time. This time around the word is Gratitude....
Blogaversary
I am not sure how this slipped by but this blog turned 5 on November 11th. Technically my first post was November 11th but I really started blogging in Ju...
Advent New Testament Challenge
We in the Orthodox Church being the season of Advent today. For the next 40 days we are encouraged to fast, pray, and expand our spiritual life. As an aid...