Easter Bread
Beautiful Easter Bread baked today by ladies of the Philoptochos.
Posts & Updates
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OUR HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE
After a spiritually uplifting Liturgy on Palm Sunday morning, our schedule of Holy Week services is as follows. Nymphios Matins, Sunday, April 25th – 6:00 PM Nymphios Matins, Monday, April […]
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To be a gift of God
Genesis 28 is the backdrop to today’s Gospel reading. It’s a marvelous story about Jacob: Jacob left Beer-sheba and set out for Haran. He came upon a certain place and […]
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The gospel as story
A wonderful paragraph from the sermons of St. John Chrysostom that I happened to read the other day. It is actually from the first sermon in the series of 90 […]
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“Everyone capable of thanksgiving”
Father Alexander Schmemann of blessed memory celebrated his last Thanksgiving on November 24th, 1983. Less than three weeks later he passed on to eternity. On that Thanksgiving Day he celebrated […]
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The Water Gospel
Today we begin the segment of the Church year where the Sunday Gospel readings are taken from the Gospel of Luke. So today is the First Sunday of Luke and […]
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A Psalm for Times of Covid
Psalm 42 As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God.My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.When shall I come and behold the face of […]
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Cracks can be made beautiful
Who is Jesus speaking to in today’s Gospel reading? The young man. The disciples. But surely he’s also speaking to us! The young man today thought he had it all, […]
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Gratitude creates Forgiveness
Some Orthodox theologians have lately been recovering an ancient tradition of Orthodox theology that goes back to the second century, with St. Irenaeus’ idea of recapitulation, ανακεφαλαίωσις, and especially to […]
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Restoration job in progress
God created human beings in God’s image and likeness. When the early Christians began to explore the meaning of Christ’s coming into the world, very early, as early as the […]