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Sunday Before Pentecost

30 May 2009

We also are on our way to the day of Pentecost, next week we will keep this event. When Paul was on his way, he thought of what had happened to himself in the solitude of his journey from Jerusalem ...

Family fulfills circle caring for parents

26 May 2009

The blessed gift of responsibility expressed through child raising is often maligned today. Too many see it as an infringement upon their freedom. This sadly occurs because too many have accepted the ...

Icons – God with us in our Homes

19 May 2009

As Christian Education coordinator, I have had the opportunity to visit the parishes around our diocese and I have been welcomed into many homes. At almost every home, the focal point has been their ...

Is War Ever Justified?

10 May 2009

What we see in all this that Christ when He introduced in our world – a world where there is killing and death – a new reality: the new divine life which liberates us from fear, He did not order us ...

Images of the Good Shepherd : Icons or not?

04 May 2009

In recent years in the Orthodox Church, what has been termed by some as a “new” icon has emerged, and become very popular with many people. It is an icon of Christ the Good Shepherd. All one has to ...

Metropolitan Jonah of All America and Canada: “It takes personal sacrifice to be an Orthodox Christian”

03 May 2009

We have to churchify our lifestyle and to bring our life into conformity with Jesus Christ and the Gospel. And this is the great strength of Orthodoxy. This is not about simply believing in the ...

About Communion

30 April 2009

All too often, the modern ecumenical rhetoric seeks to minimize our differences by saying that they are only “skin-deep,” or that we are all climbing toward the same mountain top, albeit from a ...

Preaching the Gospel of Christ in the Modern World

28 April 2009

One is Orthodox all the time, everyday, in every situation of life, or one is not really Orthodox at all. Our Orthodoxy is revealed not just in our strictly religious views, but in everything we do ...

St. Thomas Sunday

25 April 2009

People often refer to Thomas as “doubting,” not really considering the depth and the height of the “doubt” of this holy apostle. But let us look more carefully at this man. Was his doubt the same ...

The Word that Transfigures

14 April 2009

Word and silence are at the heart of the liturgical life, both in their power to evoke (anamnesis: sacred memory), and in their eschatological call. In the ritual we see the knitting together of ...

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