Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
This will be the third article in the series on Parish Revitalization. In the first article I provided an overview from several sources on revitalizing an Orthodox Parish. This was followed by an article on Daily Scripture Reading. This article…
“The fight of the new Adam aginst the old Adam is a long and painful one, and what a naive oversimplification it is to think, as some do, that the ‘salvation’ they experience in revivals and ‘decisions for Christ,’ and…
This is the text of my sermon for the 3rd Sunday After Petecost. I had intended to record it but I forgot to press record. So here you go.Last week we spoke about what church means from the point of…
On February 15th, Orthodox faithful around the world will begin the season of Lent. I know we just finished Christmas and it is Lent already. Hey if I had my way we would fix the date of Lent sometime in…
Last week I posted some thoughts on confession. Last Sunday in the New York Times there was an article about confession making a comeback in the Roman Catholic Church. For all of you Orthodox Christians reading this, we still have…
Verses from the Torah, the Bible and the Quran speak of the importance of confessing our sins and receiving forgiveness from a God who is merciful. But there are many differences in the process. Some faiths distinguish between major and…
On Friday I had the privilege to participate in a deacon ordination. I had not been to an ordination since my own almost five years ago. It is wonderful to be able to participate and welcome a new brother to…
Last night I had the rare opportunity, well rare for an orthodox priest anyway, of hearing first confessions. Emmanuel Orthodox Church in Warren Massachusetts will be received into Holy Orthodox this very morning by Chrismation. About 100 people will be…
“Let us not, I beg you, slay ourselves by our irreverence, but with awe and purity draw near to it; and when you see it set before you, say to yourself: ‘Because of this Body am I no longer earth…
I worte this essay for the Annual Publication of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese in the Americas that is due out soon.One can hardly deny that our world is becoming more and more secular in its view of all things. One…