Are We Religious or Are We Faithful?
I read a very interesting article a few weeks ago that caught my undivided attention. The title was very daring to begin with: “Religious people are dangerous” and‚ on top of that‚ it was written by an...
View ArticleHow Will We Welcome Christ?
How Will We Welcome Christ Today? After traveling and living with Jesus for three years, listening to all his inspiring words, witnessing his amazing miracles, observing his life of love for all...
View ArticleOur Duties for Holy and Great Week
This very day is clothed with the bright robes of the first-fruits of the Lord’s passion. Come, then, all feast lovers, let us welcome it with songs. (Kathisma, Holy Monday) We have arrived, my...
View ArticleRunning After Righteousness
A favourite phrase from the American Declaration of Independence tells us that one of our inalienable human rights is the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This legitimate political...
View ArticleHoly Week: From Darkness to Light
Before we tell the story of what is happening in our Church today, I want to take us all back 14 years ago. At 5:52 PM on August 24th, 2007, destruction struck our little town of Fenton, Michigan. A...
View ArticleMetropolitan Anthony Speaks on the Right Way to Finish Great Lent
Lent has come to an end. Holy Week is the last stage on the path to Paschal joy. But let's ask ourselves, are we going through this final pre-Pascha stage in the right way? The post Metropolitan...
View ArticleWhy Do We Call It Pascha?
Christ is risen! Indeed He is Risen! My beloved, we are now in the joyous season of Pascha. It occurred to me that perhaps some of you do not know why we call what is known in the west as Easter by...
View ArticleThe Postmodern Truth of Resurrection
As citizens of the post-modern world we got so used to relative truth that we are quick to label any one that supports a fundamental truth of any kind as a fundamentalist. But there is no shame in...
View ArticleHow to Preserve the Fruits of Fasting after Pascha?
How to keep Paschal joy? Advice from New Martyrs. The post How to Preserve the Fruits of Fasting after Pascha? appeared first on A Russian Orthodox Church Website.
View ArticleDoubt and a Real Encounter with the Risen Lord
We are coming to the end of Bright Week during which every day is Pascha. Every day, in monastic practice, we celebrate a Paschal Divine Liturgy. Every day the hymns reflect on the Resurrection of...
View ArticleNo Conditions
In the Acts of the Apostles, we read that many signs and wonders were wrought among the people at the hands of the apostles. So many miracles took place in those days, that people who had sick...
View ArticleThe Artos Bread: an Experience of God’s Presence
Christ is Risen! Can there be any doubt of that reality?! How incredible of a feeling it was to celebrate the Resurrection once again with a vast majority of our parish family! The paschal feeling,...
View ArticleThe Eros of Marriage
“Everybody’s sin is nobody’s sin‚ and everybody’s crime is no crime at all.” This quote allegedly attributed to Alfred Kinsey‚ the parent of modern “sexology”‚ if such a “science” exists‚ seems to...
View ArticleWe Don’t Want the Resurrection
It sounds harsh, and perhaps the observation that we don’t want the Resurrection will be hard for unsuspecting readers to believe. What blind people wouldn’t want their sight back; what sick person...
View ArticleStumbling Toward Salvation
On occasion I have written on topics that seem to scandalize readers, or certainly cause difficulty for many. Some of those topics have been articles on the wrath of God; the radical forgiveness of...
View ArticleThe Pro-Life Cause, Orthodoxy, and Hope
[a talk for an Orthodox Christian Pro-Life Event; January 22, 2012] Today is the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion—through all 50 states, for any...
View ArticleIndividualism and Charismatic Delusion
In an on-going discussion with my inquiring friend today, I respond to two questions. First, why do traditional Christians call priests father; and second, why do we pray to saints (i.e. why don’t we...
View ArticleThe Church As House Of Mercy
The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. John. (5:1-15) On this the fourth Sunday of Pascha the Holy Church directs our attention to the healing of the paralytic which is found in the gospel...
View ArticleFreedom from Fear
‘Do not be afraid’, the angel of the Lord said to the myrrh-bearing women who had been overcome by fear and trembling at the empty tomb, ‘for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified....
View ArticleHe Who is Without Sin?
Christ asked those without sin to cast the first stone The post He Who is Without Sin? appeared first on A Russian Orthodox Church Website.
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