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...
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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...
Fasting and the Spiritual Benefit
For Orthodox Christians around the world the period of Advent, or to be more specific the Nativity Fast has begun. This is a period of the 40 days leading up t...
To Beard or not to Beard
I am taking part in the 40 days of blogging set up by my friend and fellow Orthodox priest Fr. John Peck. By the way, if you need a website designed check out ...
The Not So Eastern Church
By Fr. Lawrence Farley I can, I think, count on the fingers of my one hand the number of times I have described myself as an Eastern Orthodox. Usually the pref...