Today we Orthodox Christians remember a number of things that pertain to our salvation, most importantly, of course, our Savior’s...

Tonight we remembered the sinful woman who anointed our Lord’s feet, and who, unlike Judas, did not horde her money, but spent on that...

My dear father confessor, Fr. Thomas Edwards, whenever asked what his favorite feast is, will always respond that it is the one we are...

Today in the Orthodox Church is the Feast of the Triumphal Entry of Christ into Jerusalem. As we processed around the Church I thought...

Fr. Behr’s Lecture at Eastern University on the Orthodox Faith and Liberal Learning. All the rest are after the break.

One of the great problems that besets we moderns is the proliferation of media which amplify the cacophony that is the age of...

In the second post of this blog I pointed out St. Paul’s extended treatment of the relationship of the two testaments, and the...

On Annunciation and Passion Falling on the Same Day. 1609. by John Donne TAMELY, frail body, abstain to-day ; to-day My soul eats...

A good piece by my priest, Fr. Andrew Damick. His blog is well worth looking at. Roads from Emmaus

Imputation means that something is reckoned to our benefit, or, as it were, a debt paid on our behalf by someone else. The term is of...

Do you not know that of all those who run in a race, only one obtains the laurel? So run, that you may receive it. Every man that strives...

Alienation is a concept widely and wildly appealed to by numerous thinkers and for various reasons. Freud, Nietzsche, Marx, Shaw, each...

“Before Thy Cross, we bow down in worship O Master. And Thy holy resurrection we glorify.” On Ash Wednesday of this year I read the...

“In the Old Testament, to see God was to die; in the New Testament to meet God is to live.” Metropolitan Anthony Bloom of blessed memory,...

Between the reading of the two Old Testament lessons during the wonderfully beautiful Liturgy of the Pre-Sanctified Gifts, the priest...