Blessing for the Romanian Orthodox Faithful Living Abroad
Message of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church on the Immigrant Romanians Sunday, 19 August 2012: This Sunday dedicated to the immig...
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Transfiguration and the Blessing of the First Fruits
August 6th is the Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This year the feast falls on a Monday and so at the Sunday Liturgy we sang ...
Sermon ~ Taking a Step in Faith
I think that the Gospel story we just heard is my favorite of all of the Gospels stories that we hear during the year. This Gospel displays an enormous amount ...
OCEC, St. Tikhon’s Seminary, to co-host Christian education conference September 15
The Orthodox Christian Education Commission [OCEC] and Saint Tikhon’s Seminary will be co-sponsoring a Christian education conference, “Educating Our Children i...
Words of Warning from Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Vocations and Sharing our Faith
The other day I linked to an article debunking reasons for women to become nuns. The article was written by, and for a Roman Catholic audience but there were s...
Paraclis’ service of the Mother of God is very spiritually useful
On 1 August 2012, 17.00 hours, the Paraclis Service of the Birth Giver of God was celebrated at the Patriarchal Cathedral of Bucharest, on the first day of the ...
Preparing for Battle
Today is a sad day in America for on this day the religious liberty that we have cherished for low these many years has come to an end, for now anyway. Today is...
Ministry to the Sick
“Is anyone among you sick? Let him call the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.” James 5:14 One of...
Metropolitan Hilarion: Our love of God is tested beyond the church walls
On July 29, the commemoration way of the Holy Fathers of the Six Ecumenical Councils, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s de...