Tag: Pastoral Blogging

Traveling around the countries of Eastern Europe this time of year, you will not hear the very familiar greeting of Merry Christmas. Rather, people will say Chr...

At our Community Meal the other night one of our guests handed me a Candy Cane and this little poem that I thought was kind of nice. The Candy Cane a Gift of Lo...

I am desperately trying to catch up on the 40 Days of Pastoral Blogging exercise that I promised I would do, but I am falling way behind. The word is Hats.  Now...

As we draw near to the celebration of the Nativity of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ it is time to reflect on some Strange Christmas Traditions from other pla...

Well this is an interesting topic on out 40 Day Blogging experience.  It seems that this topic come up during this time of year as well seem to spend money on t...

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...