Saturday of the Dead
From the Synarxarion (Explanation) in the Triodion of THE SATURDAY OF THE DEAD Soul Saturday (Celebrated this year on March 9th) On this day, Soul Saturday, acc...
Tag: Spirituality
10 Spiritual New Year’s Resolutions for Orthodox Christians
– By Fr. Stephen Lourie 1) Arrive for Church Services on time! We take for granted the Divine Liturgy at the best of times. Often we believe that as long...
Facing Loss During the Holidays
Those of us who have lost children can dread the holidays (by which I really mean Christmas/Nativity). The focus seems to be so much on family togetherness and ...
Ancestral Sin versus Original Sin
The fact that we Orthodox do not accept the doctrine of original sin as espoused in the West, does in no way suggest that we do not need to be born again (born ...
Taking Back Sunday
With a tip of the Skufia to Fr. Greg I post below the text of an address by His Eminence Metropolitan Methodios of Boston given at the recent meeting of the The...
Nativity Fast
On November 15th the Orthodox Church begins a period of preparation leading up to the Nativity of Christ on December 25th. The period of abstinence, called the...
First Snow Fall
I do not usually get taken by surprise by the weather, but this morning I woke up, and we had eight inches of snow on the ground. I usually pay pretty close at...
Moral Renewal
Over the past few months, I have been involved in discussions about the moral decay of our present day society. Now I know the argument, some will say that the...
Cheap Grace
This week I have started to read the book, “The Cost of Discipleship” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I have only read the introduction and the first chapter, but alre...
Dying to Self
My guess would be that, for the vast majority of people, their experience with the Orthodox Church would have to do with encountering the Orthodox at a Liturgic...