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Fr. John has chosen the topic of monastics for the 28th day of our 40 day blogging exercise.  I have written about monastics before on this blog, just do a quic...

On my Facebook page the other day, I wrote about the beauty of the Orthodox Vespers service.  If my opinion matters, I do believe that the Vespers is the most b...

I find it interesting that the topic up for discussion today on the Pastoral Blogging exercise is the Snowflake, because as I sit here and write this it is snow...

Some of my favorite childhood memories revolve around the Christmas tree.  On Christmas morning my brothers and I would wake up be we could not come out into th...

There is the old axiom “It is better to give then to receive” but I prefer to receive gifts than to give them, not because I am cheap but because I hate shoppin...

“Let my prayer rise like incense, the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.” Psalm 140:2 These words from Psalm 140 are used during the celebration of...

One of the things I like best about the Christmas season is the music.  Not the modern junk that is out there, although I do like some of the Celtic Christmas m...

Fr. John is really trying to stretch my imagination with the topic of today, the foot.  The foot has to be the ugliest part of the human body, no wonder it is l...