Palm Sunday Sermon
Our Lenten journey has come to an end. I hope these days have been different than the rest of the year. Each Lent we have an awesome opportunity to enhance our ...
Tag: Theology
25 March ~ Feast of the Annunciation
A Young Girl Says Yes! Today we celebrate the feast of Annunciation to the Theotokos. On this day we remember the visit of the Angel Gabriel to a young girl nam...
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 ‘...
Use the Spiritual Gifts
Each year in my parish we hold what is called the General Assembly an annual meeting if you will. Our Orthodox Church is hierarchical with the Archbishop ...
How do we wish to be remembered?
Jesus feeding the 5,000 The title of this post is a question that I have been asking myself as of late. When we no longer walk this earth how do we wish to be r...
Does God Care Who Gets Elected?
Icon from Orthodox Images This is a question I have been chewing on for a long time. Does God really care who wins an election? My feeling is He doe...
Christianity Should Not Change With The Times
Letter By St. Theophan the Recluse December 29, 1863 Sunday after Christ’s Birth It reached my ears that, as it seems, you consider my sermons very strict...
In the Image and Likeness
“Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.” Genesis 1:26 I have always struggled with the image and likeness line that I have quoted from Genesis...
Sow Bountifully, Reap Bountifully
V. Rev. Fr. Nicholas ApostolaPastor, St. Nicholas Orthodox ChurchShrewsbury, MassachusettsGuest Blogger Following the Feast of the Precious Cross, we begin a ne...
Because a Young Girl Said Yes
Yesterday, the Orthodox Church celebrated the feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos. This is one of the twelve great feasts of the Orthodox Church and commemo...