Gerald Ford RIP
Word has reached us here in the village of the passing of former President Gerald Ford at the age of 93. Much will be written in the coming days of him and his ...
Author: Fr. Peter
Nativity Services
Yesterday after Divine Liturgy we did a quick change of the church from Advent to the Nativity season. All of the red was replaced with white and candles were p...
Nativity Message
The Nativity Message of His Eminence Archbishop Nicolae of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese in the Americas can be found here: EnglishRomanian
Great Vespers
If anyone is in the area tonight, we are having Great Vespers at 5pm here in the church. Fr. Greg is coming down from Worcester so it should be a great service....
Parastas (Paos) Service
The third part of the Funeral Service is what is called the Parastas or Memorial Service. This service is served on the 40th day after the falling asleep as wel...
Pastoral Joys
This morning I had a great breakfast with Fr. Greg and returned to the church to find the other furnace in the church on the fritz. We have three hot air furnac...
Orthodox Funeral Service Part II
In the last post the pre-funeral liturgies were covered. In this post I would like to look at the actual Funeral Liturgy and some of the symbolism of the things...
Festivus
Okay, how many of us remember the “Seinfeld” episode Festivus for the Rest of Us? It was just on not that long ago. Well it would seem that Festivus...
Missionary Blogger
Orthodox Missionary John Burnett from Uganda has a blog about various topics check it out here. Send John an e-mail and thank him for his service to the church....
Romania’s Communist Past
Thanks to Missionary Floyd Frantz for this information. Dear Friends of the St. Dimitrie Program, Often times, we all get pretty bleak about the situation here ...