Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
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 Christ is Born, to which the response is Glorify Him. This greeting calls to…
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 Love It had to be special to…
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 if anyone knows me they know I have…
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 places. I am not talking about what we do in our…
I am terribly far behind on the 40 Days of Blogging exercise, I guess that is what happens this time of year, we get extremely busy. I have a dear friend, Brother Victor-Antoine d’Avila-Latourette who lives in a Benedictine monastery…
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 things that we do not need but we continue…
Today, December 13th is the Feastday of Saint Herman of Alaska the first Saint to be Glorified by the Orthodox Church of America. He was Glorified by the Church in 1970 and continues to be remembered for what he was…
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 quick search and you should be able to find them.…
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 beautiful of all of the Orthodox Liturgies that I have…
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 snowing outside my window. Well not really snowing as much as…