Leadership: Is the microphone on?
Fr. Basil, at the Orthodox Leader Blog is asking the same question that asked last week. Where is the Orthodox voice in the Health Care debate? As one of the co...
Author: Fr. Peter
Faithfulness
This is my entry in the twice monthly One Word at a Time Blog Carnival. This time around the word is Faithfulness. Thanks to the coordinators of this Carnival i...
Holy Week Schedule
Saturday of Lazarus March 27th Great Vespers: …………………………………..5:00 P.M. Palm Sunday March 28th Matins: …………………………………………….9:00 a.m. Divine Liturgy: …………………………………....
Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt
The memory of this Saint is celebrated on April 1, where her life is recorded. Since the end of the holy Forty Days is drawing nigh, it has been appointed for t...
Romanian Orthodox Church defrocks divorced priests
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The Romanian Orthodox has decided to strip clergymen who divorce of their priestly duties. Church spokesman Constantin Stoica says the...
St. Nikolai of Zhicha
Recently, I visited the museum at St. Tikhon’s Seminary in Pennsylvania. If you have a chance to visit I highly recommend the visit. The museum traces Ame...
National Health Care Debate: Pro Life
With the national health care debate in full swing again, and a vote perhaps this weekend, I have been pondering what it means to be pro life. We hear this term...
Sava on a Rolla
Bishop Savas, the Director of the Office of Society and Culture of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, is blogging again. He is traveling with an OCF gro...
Orthodox Monasticism ~ Degrees of Monks
Novice lit. “one under obedience”—Those wishing to join a monastery begin their lives as novices. After coming to the monastery and living as a gues...
St. Patrick’s Breastplate
I bind unto myself today the strong Name of the Trinity, by invocation of the same, the Three in One, and One in Three. I bind this day to me for ever, by power...