Sermon ~ Costly Grace
In 1937, the Lutheran Pastor and Theologian Dietrich Bonheoffer wrote a booked with the title The Cost of Discipleship. Bonhoeffer’s Germany of 1937 had become...
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Massachusetts Question 2
On Tuesday, November 6th voters around the country will be heading out to the polls to elect leaders for the next few years in our country. In Massachusetts we...
Moral Renewal
Over the past few months, I have been involved in discussions about the moral decay of our present day society. Now I know the argument, some will say that the...
Cheap Grace
This week I have started to read the book, “The Cost of Discipleship” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I have only read the introduction and the first chapter, but alre...
Orthodox Thoughts on the 2012 Election
V. Rev. Paul Jannakos As Orthodox Christians we bear witness to Christ in all dimensions of life. This includes participation in civic life, where as citizens o...
I have been Crucified with Christ
The Reading is from St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians 2:16-20 BRETHREN, you know that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jes...
Physician Assisted Suicide And The Orthodox Church
Below is a letter from Metropolitan Methodios concerning physician assisted suicide and the upcoming ballot question no. 2 here in Massachusetts. We thank his ...
Getting to the Heart
At the very heart of the Jesus Prayer lies the actual experience of the body as the temple of the Spirit; in other words, the Spirit dwells in our body (see 1 C...
Dying to Self
My guess would be that, for the vast majority of people, their experience with the Orthodox Church would have to do with encountering the Orthodox at a Liturgic...
Halloween: A Few Spiritual Pointers for Orthodox Parents
Fr. George Morelli But whosoever shall cause one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be to his advantage that a millstone turned by an a...