June 17, 2019 3 Important Ideas on the Holy Trinity and Pentecost Feast 1. The “Spirit of Disorganization” Years ago the cowboy humorist Will Rogers said, “I don’t belong to any organized political party. I’m a Democrat.”…
June 17, 2019 How Are We to Treat the “Little Ones”, the Sinners, and the Supplicants? Ref. Matthew 18: 10-20 It has been a day since the Church appeared on earth. Yesterday, the Holy Spirit descended on the apostles and vested…
June 16, 2019 How Can We Sense the Holy Spirit? The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. John. 7:37-52; 8:12 During the last few weeks we were blessed enough to spend some…
June 14, 2019 In Anticipation of Pentecost: “We All Have the Light of the Holy Spirit Burning in Us” When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush…
May 22, 2019 The “Model of Meekness”? A Priest on St. Nicholas’ Zeal and Slapping Arius Priest Dimitry Shishkin, rector of the Church of the Protection of the Mother of God in the village of Pochtovoe (diocese of Simperopol and…
May 8, 2019 Nun Irina (Helman): “Worshipping God Means Serving Your Neighbour” When someone asked an elder what the difference between lay people and monks is, the elder replied, “First: Monks don’t marry.” It doesn’t sound…
March 6, 2019 On the Question of the Seven Deadly Sins, Part 2 Why Seven Sins? It’s entirely arbitrary. We could list 1 or 7 or 107. The 1 sin would be Pride, which is usually (not…
March 4, 2019 On the Question of the Seven Deadly Sins Sin I think we Orthodox don’t talk enough about sin. Really – how many of our people actually go to Confession? And when we…
February 28, 2019 A Priest’s Story about How Parents Make Their Children Turn from Church Personally, telling people something that they do not want to hear is the hardest thing to do in the ministry. Especially when a person…
February 27, 2019 On Prayerful Commemoration of the Dead The condition of the dead is similar to the condition of a person who sails down a very dangerous river. Prayer for the dead…
