Confession and Parish Revitalization
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 Ortho...
Tag: Sacraments
For the Life of the World
“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 ‘...
Do This in Remebrance of Me
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 abo...
A Little Humor (Sort 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 wa...
Confession Makes a Comback
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 ...
Confession varies among world’s major religions
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 ar...
Ordinations
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 a...
Confession
Last night I had the rare opportunity, well rare for an orthodox priest anyway, of hearing first confessions. Emmanuel Orthodox Church in Warren Massachusetts w...
St. John Chrysostom on Holy Communion
“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: ‘Becaus...
Recovering a Sense of Communon in the Church
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 be...