#Giving Tuesday: Help Us Continue The Mission
On Tuesday, December 2, 2014, you can help my parish launch a new tradition by joining a movement that celebrates human generosity called #GivingTuesday. WeR...
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Giving Thanks
I truly love this time of year – it is in fact “the most wonderful time of the year.” Wait, wait it is not time for Christmas songs just yet!...
Text of Joint Declaration Signed by Pope and Ecumenical Patriarch
Vatican City, November 30, 2014 (Zenit.org) | Here below is the Vatican-provided text of the joint declaration signed by Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch B...
Less is More
For the last few weeks I have been participating in the 40 Days of Pastoral Blogging exercise established by my friend Fr. John Peck. He has been giving us ide...
Presidential Proclamation — Thanksgiving Day, 2014
THANKSGIVING DAY, 2014 – – – – – – – BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Thanksgiving Day ...
Violence in America
I have not watched much of the coverage of the violence in Ferguson Missouri and other cities around the country. On Tuesday I waited for the announcement of t...
The First Thanksgiving Proclamation
June 20, 1676 “The Holy God having by a long and Continual Series of his Afflictive dispensations in and by the present Warr with the Heathen Natives of t...
1783 Thanksgiving Proclamation
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His EXCELLENCY John Hancock, Esq. GOVERNOR of the COMMONWEALTH of Massachusetts. A PROCLAMATION, For a Day of Public Thanksgiv...
Do Not Store Up in Barns
“When someone steals another’s clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread i...
Amphilokios, Bishop of Iconium
FROM THE SYNAXARION On November 23 in the Holy Orthodox Church we continue to celebrate the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Holy of Holies, and we commemorat...