Giving – of ourselves
Stewardship, from Glimpses of Glory: Back when I was single and had only myself to worry about, I was introduced to a fuller understanding of stewardship. I had always equated Read more…
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Fasting
We have just had the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee. Father Jeremy of orthodoxroad.com has written: The Great Fast and the Pharisee Because the Orthodox Church was instituted Read more…
Happy Valentine’s Day
Bishop Demetri Khoury says in a sermon about Love: St. Valentine was a priest near Rome in about the year 270 A.D, a time when the church was enduring great Read more…
The Publican and the Pharisee
Today we have the parable of the Publican and the Pharisee. Luke 18:10-14 (Gospel) 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a Read more…
Understand me. It is so simple.
‘Understand me. It is so simple.’ These words by Saint Silouan the Athonite are found in his many writings on Love. Saint Silouan was born Simeon Ivanovich Antonov in 1866, Read more…
Lenten Fasting
The Fathers know that not every Orthodox Christian is diligent about fasting. So they give us a very gradual introduction to the struggle of Lenten fasting: First, this coming week, nobody fasts. Read more…
Is Easter (Pascha) a Pagan Holiday?
Father Jeremy from orthodoxroad.com writes the following: Many of us have read articles or seen memes floating around the internet that attempt to tie the celebration of Christ’s resurrection to Read more…
Responding to God’s Gifts
Lenten Giving: All of life is a gift, a free gift, given to us by God. This one basic truth frames our relationship with God and one another. It also Read more…
Pascha Time
We are creatures of linear time, always moving forward, only glancing back imperfectly at the past. We dream of travelling at will along our time line. Whether it is Superman Read more…
Zacchaeus Sunday
Father Philip LeMasters wrote this homily on Zacchaeus for ancientfaith.com: Nobody likes to pay taxes. The people of first-century Palestine were no different; however, the Jews of that time had Read more…