The Sabbath
Each of the days during Advent Fr. John Peck is giving us words or concepts to blog about as part of the 40 Days of Pastoral Blogging exercise. This is day nin...
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Canned Food
If you have been reading these pages for any period of time you will know that my parish St. Michael Orthodox Church in Southbridge Massachusetts provides a fre...
The Holy of Holies
St. Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews 9:1-7 BRETHREN, the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary. For a tent was prepared, the out...
November 21st ~ Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple
A Sermon by Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica If a tree is known by its fruit, and a good tree bears good fruit (Mt. 7:17; Lk. 6:44), then is no...
And They All Cried Glory
These words come from the Prophetic Words of Isaiah and describe the worship of all believers in the Heavenly places. This is also one of the verses that influ...
Gettysburg Address
On this date, November 19th, 150 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln gave a speech at a new cemetery in a small Pennsylvania town that saw one of the bloodiest...
He Who Began A Good Work In You…
I think it goes without saying that St. Paul is one of the greatest missionary figures of the New Testament. In fact, most of the Epistle writings are those of...
No Shopping on Thanksgiving
Why do we desire to rush the holiday season? It seems that no sooner is Halloween over that the Christmas decorations start to appear in the stores. I noticed...
Met. Hilarion: The Voice of the Church Must Be Prophetic
Source: World Council of Churches Address by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patria...