Dear brothers and sisters, At times Great Lent is compared to a voyage across the ocean or an immense sea. This brings to mind the passage of the people of Israel across the Red Sea as they fled from Pharoah, but also… Read more
Great Lent 2018
Category: From Our Priest
On Authenticity in Orthodox Experience. Reading Material and Notes. Part One.
Metropolitan Nicholas on Authenticity. Fr. Jeffrey’s notes. Authenticity is Indirectly perceived: Hidden and suspected rather than evident because: 1) It is so intensely personal.The life of faith for each person is his life of faith alone. While there is somewhat of a commonality and a communion with all others in… Read more
Blessed are the Meek. A talk based on the Homilies of St. Gregory of Nyssa.
Blessed are the Meek (Audio Link) Blessed are the Meek, for they shall inherit the earth. The Beatitudes are arranged like a ladder, each one a step that naturally leads to the others: “For if a man’s mind has ascended to the first beatitude, he will accept what… Read more
Blessed are the Poor in Spirit. A Talk based on the Homilies of St. Gregory of Nyssa.
Blessed are the Poor in Spirit for their’s is the Kingdom of Heaven (Audio Link) Notes on the Homilies of St. Gregory of Nyssa. From: St. Gregory of Nyssa. The Lord’s Prayer; The Beatitudes. Trans. and Annotated by Hilda C. Graef, Newman Press. NY, NY 1954 St Gregory in his homilies… Read more
On the Jesus Prayer. Romans 10 7/24/2016
“The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart (that is the word of faith which we preach); because, if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” What is… Read more
The end of your search for the perfect Church?
SOME THOUGHTS ON CONVERSION “I have not been told why you are about to convert, but I assure you there is no point whatsoever if it is for negative reasons…” (From the Letter of Mother Thekla to a potential convert to Orthodoxy) It has been remarked that there is nothing… Read more
What you’ve seen.
Christ in Gethsemane. Icon By Aidan Hart. It’s true, you’ve seen a lot of bad things in life. You’ve seen twin towers collapse like a wave receding into a lake of fire. You’ve seen loved ones blue with dying in a hospital, and you’ve seen hospitals reduced to rubble and… Read more
Distractions!
Distractions! A maddening life, pulling our thoughts apart! How is one supposed to meditate, to reflect? While the heart and mind are drawn and quartered by deathly-wild horses, not once, but many times in a day. The first response – I quit! I’ll just leave! Find some place quiet, seek… Read more
On the Psalms before Holy Communion. Psalm 22
Psalm 22. LXX The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. In green pastures he makes me a home, he nourishes me beside still water. He uplifts my soul, he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Though I walk in the shadow of death,… Read more
Feast of Meeting February 2nd.
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Services for the Presentation of our Lord in the Temple begin this evening (Feb. 1st) with Great Vespers at 6pm. Orthros and Divine Liturgy will be served tomorrow (Feb. 2nd) beginning at 9:30 am. To learn more about this feast click here. Hope to see you here,… Read more