Saturday of Souls
Join us from 10:30am – 11:45am this Saturday, Feb. 26th, 2022 for our Memorial Liturgy. Fifty years after the death of St Theodore, the emperor Julian the Apostate (361-363), wanting Read more…
Tag: Orthodoxy
Judas Iscariot
Today’s Gospel reading is Mark 14:10-42, about Judas and his betrayal of Jesus. Fr. Silouan of silouanthompson.net has some interesting thoughts about Judas here: Today, Judas forsakes the Master,and takes Read more…
Fasting and Other Thoughts from Fr. Andrew
Whenever we enter a fasting period, I am often asked “How should I fast?” and “How often should I come for confession?” It is considered a bare minimum requirement if Read more…
The Dance of Isaiah
Today we had a baptism and a wedding in our little church. “Eastern Orthodox wedding ceremonies, because they adhere to sacred Tradition, often seem quite different when compared to conventional Read more…
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…
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…