Where do I stand in this journey?
“Lent, rather, is a kind of temporal magnifying glass, revealing in intense, close-up detail the meaning not only of the rest of the year, but the rest of our lives.” Read more…
Warm your hands at the fire of the Divine Love of God
It is hard to love God and sing His praise each day when everything around us regards such behaviour as madness or fanaticism. It is hard to love our neighbour Read more…
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…
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…
Publican and Pharisee God’s Love
Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee Feb.13, 2022; Luke: 18:(9)10-14; Fr. Andrew Last week we met Zacchaeus the tax collector who is reported to have gone on to become the 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…