Exact Language
Language is one of those interesting things to look at. Language and praise and language can punish. Sometimes, if we wish to be understood, we need...
Author: Fr. Peter
Prayers for +Nikon of Boston
BOSTON, MA (OCA) – Prayers are requested for the ongoing health of His Grace, Bishop Nikon of Boston, New England and the Albanian Archdiocese, who recent...
The Divine Liturgy ~ The Entrance Prayers
In my last post, I gave an overview of the Divine Liturgy and briefly listed some of the elements. One commenter pointed out that more Western Rite Liturg...
The Divine Liturgy ~ An Explanation
Over the next few days, I will be posting on elements of the Divine Liturgy of the Orthodox Church. One thing that one needs to know, is that there is more to ...
Mosque at Ground Zero
I have not commented on this up to this point but now I think I need too. Let me start by saying that I do not think that the proposed center should ...
Seek God Above All
Imagine that there is nothing else in front of your eyes – as though you were not among mankind – because you are seeing nothing else but God, for G...
Book Review ~ Short Trip to the Edge
Several months ago, shortly after my tonsure into the Orthodox Monastic Life, a very good priest friend of mine gave me a book about a poet who went on a search...
Because a Young Girl Said Yes
Yesterday, the Orthodox Church celebrated the feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos. This is one of the twelve great feasts of the Orthodox Church and commemo...
Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox Christianity
“With a combination of essay-length and short entries written by a team of leading religious experts, the two-volume Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodoxy off...
13 August ~ Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk
Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk, Bishop of Voronezh (in the world Timothy), was born in the year 1724 in the village of Korotsk in the Novgorod diocese, into the family...