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Disease and Holy Communion

03 November 2009

The dean of the Romanian archdiocese in France recently published a document that brought this question to a head. Taking into consideration recommendations made by several medical professionals, he ...

On Reverence

29 October 2009

It is unrealistic to make people attend regular church services during the week. I agree that many people, at least in our parish, take their communion quite regularly now. For all that, we ...

The Loneliness of Modern Man

25 October 2009

The internet has probably made us more connected, in a virtual sense, than we have been in a generation. But, of course, their is an extreme level of volunteerism in this virtual community. If I ...

So Your Child Wants to Become a Monactic

22 October 2009

You may feel threatened. You spend your whole life nurturing the well-being of your children: you feed them and worry over them; you help them to discover their abilities and you encourage them to ...

Whose Life Is It Anyway?:Why We Pray The Way We Pray

21 October 2009

Now, imagine my even greater shock when I opened an Orthodox prayer-book for the first time. Again, I was confronted by the harshest self-criticism that I had ever seen. Men like St. Ephraim, who ...

Personal Story of Fr. George Johnson

15 October 2009

ASAP, my wife and I attended a Saturday night vigil service at St John's. Within 10 minutes, we knew we were home. Everything about the situation cried out: "This is what the Church is all ...

An Orthodox Christian’s Struggle

14 October 2009

As someone who has attractions to members of the same sex, and as a baptized and professing Orthodox, I have found myself in a spiritual "tug-of-war." The wisdom of the world seducively ...

Let us follow the example of the Most Holy Theotokos – Homily of Patriarch Pavle

13 October 2009

I repeat that feast days have been established among other reasons to serve as a model for us on how to act and how to live. The Most Holy Theotokos in one of her songs sang: God looked upon the ...

Is Orthodoxy too “Spiritual” or too “Materialistic”?

06 October 2009

Outsiders becoming aware of Orthodoxy--visiting a service, reading certain books of a "mystical" slant--decide that our religion is very "spiritual"--possibly too spiritual for ...

Loving the Storm-Drenched

05 October 2009

More serious, however, is a tone of voice we adopt from the culture: sarcastic, smart-alecky, jabbing, and self-righteous. We feel the sting of such treatment, and give it right back; we feel anger ...

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