Great and Holy Wednesday
Two women – say the more discerning interpreters of the Gospel – anointed the Lord with myrrh; the one, a long time before His Passion; the other, a...
Tag: Spirituality
When religion and health mix
Ever notice that most hospitals have chapels and clergy? In a survey of 1,144 U.S. doctors published in a leading medical journal, 85 percent said that religion...
Blessed are You…
Those three words begin each stanza of what has come to be called the Beatitudes. In our Orthodox Liturgy we recite these each time we celebrate the Divine Litu...
Love Your Enemies
I am re posting this sermon on Love as part of the One Word at a Time Blog Carnival. This time around the focus is on Love. In this Scripture passage Jesus asks...
Saint Paraskeva
On Saturday evening I traveled with Fr. Greg to Saint Paraskeva Church in Wakefield, Massachusetts for a wonderful event. The parish in Wakefield, the one I was...
Being Famous Doesn’t Make You Moral
Fr. Stephen Freeman takes a look at traditional morality and how we should live our lives. The news story is so common that the name can be left blank. ”N. conf...
The Mental Murder of Torture
For some time now I have been thinking about this torture thing that everyone is talking about. How does this effect all of us and should we be concerned about ...
Thomas Sunday
Though the doors were shut at the dwelling where the disciples were gathered for fear of the Jews on the evening of the Sunday after the Passover, our Saviour w...
Holy Friday
When Friday dawned, Christ was sent bound from Caiaphas to Pontius Pilate, who was then Governor of Judea. Pilate interrogated Him in many ways, and once and ag...