Fr. Mychal Judge, Saint of 9/11
“Lord take me where you want me to go: Let me meet who you want me to meet: Tell me what you want me to say: And keep me out of your way.”
Category: Blog
Preparedness Month 2014
by Fr. John A. Peck ~ Guest Blogger National Preparedness Month is almost upon us, and in light of that, I thought a quick look at why being prepared makes sens...
Patriarch Bartholomew On The Present Violence In Iraq
The recent wave of violence against innocent families and children in Iraq has rendered the world shocked and horrified. We will not remain indifferent or silen...
Orthodoxy and Suicide
Like many of you, I was shocked and saddened by the suicide of Robin Williams. This illustrates that we never really know what is going on in a person’s ...
Pastoral Letter Concerning Violence and Extremism in the Middle East
Pastoral Letter from His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon to the Clergy, Monastics and Faithful of the Orthodox Church in America Concerning Violence and Extremis...
Prayers for Enemies
In 1941, with the German occupation of Yugoslavia, Bishop Nikolai, together with Patriarch Gabriel Dozhich, was arrested and sentenced to imprisonment in the in...
The Scot who shot the Civil War
The Scots Photographer Alexander Gardner Photographs the American Civil War.
Let The Little Children Come To Me
I am not a policy maker or someone who is charged with enforcing the law. I am a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and as such, sometimes ministry comes i...
Top Posts of the Week
Here is a list of the Top Posts of the past week here at Shepherd of Souls. Yvonne The Restorative Power of Vacations Orthodoxy and Contraception Prayer and the...
Prayer and the Dormition Fast
In birth, you preserved your virginity; in death, you did not abandon the world, O Theotokos. As mother of life, you departed to the source of life, delivering ...