Christ is Born! Glorify Him!
Dear Readers, Thank you all for coming to this site this past year. 2014 was a good year here and I am looking forward to 2015. Blessings to all of you! Fr. Peter
Peter Preble
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Peter Preble
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
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Self-Pity
Self-Pity I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. D. H. Lawrence
Death is Nothing at All
I held my first memorial service for hospice at one of the nursing homes. Twice a year we hold a simple memorial service for those who have passed since the last service. It is a mixture of Scripture, prayers, and…
Soldier’s Home Visit
I recently had the honor of speaking to a group of veterans at the Soldiers Home located in Chelsea Massachusetts. I was invited by a group of veterans that belong to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War…
55 Maxims for Christian Living
55 Maxims for Christian Living by Fr. Thomas Hopko 1. Be always with Christ. 2. Pray as you can, not as you want. 3. Have a keepable rule of prayer that you do by discipline. 4. Say the Lord’s Prayer…
Kilroy Was Here
Editors Note: This story came to me via email the other day from Carol who is a parishioner. It is a great story and has the added bonus of having ties to my home town Quincy Massachusetts. Thanks Carol for…
General John A. Logan’s Memorial Day Order
General Order No. 11 Headquarters, Grand Army of the Republic Washington, D.C., May 5, 1868 I. The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died…
Repost ~ Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night is a festival in some branches of Christianity marking the coming of the Epiphany and concluding the Twelve Days of Christmas. It is defined by the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary as “the evening of the fifth of January,…
Words of Warning from Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Greek Orthodox Church Stance on the “God Particle”
By Areti Kotseli on July 7, 2012 The Metropolitan of Messinia Chrysostomos expressed his opinion over the discovery of the so-called “God particle” that astonished the whole world during the past days, clearly drawing a line between science and religion.…