The Heart of the Family Church…
Every Sunday, feastday and other holy day, when we go into our parish temple, we see the heart of the parish which is the sanctuary, where the Holy Table is. Wh...
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Boston area religious leaders Discuss the issue of Physician Assisted Suicide
Thanks to Metropolitan Methodios for taking the lead on this issue for the Orthodox in Massachusetts. This is a serious issue and I am very pleased to see that...
What’s Going On?
It has been quite some time since I did an update of what has been going on around here. I have been trying to keep the blog updated by posting at least 3 time...
Pulpit Freedom Sunday
Sunday, October 7th, was a time when preachers from coast to coast took to their pulpits to try and pull the IRS into a court battle. In 1954, then Senator Lynd...
Sermon ~ Do Not Weep
The Gospel of Luke 7:11-16 At that time, Jesus went to a city called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. As he drew near to the gate of the...
Wedding Sermon
On October 6th I had the honor of joining together two people in the Holy Sacrament of Marriage. I do not usually post sermons from sacraments but I thought th...
Vespers in the Orthodox Church
By Fr. Lawrence Farley The service of Vespers is, I think, dramatically under-appreciated today. The temptation for us busy people is to reduce our church-goin...
Prayer of the Hours
Thou Who at all times and at every hour, in heaven and on earth, art worshipped and glorified, O Christ God, Who art long suffering, plenteous in mercy, most co...
Orthodox Spirituality Part 3
In the first essay in this series I wrote about the differences in Monastic and Lay spirituality in the Orthodox Church. I began with a basic outline of where ...
Orthodox Spirituality Part 2
In my last essay, I began a study of the differences between the Orthodox Monastic Spirituality and the Orthodox Lay person’s Spirituality. There is indeed a d...