(Feast Day ~ May 6) How often did our Lord tell his followers that God’s ways are not the ways of the world? How many times did he turn accepted “wisdom” upside down? How much of his teaching was counter-intuitive for the worldly? The saints are people who have taken our Lord’s words to heart […]

Feast Day ~ May 6 Some of the feast days on the calendar of the Church represent events in the earthly life of our Lord (i.e. the Nativity, Presentation, Transfiguration, Resurrection, Ascension) or of the saints, such as the martyrdom of those who died for their faith (i.e. Ss. Peter & Paul on June 29) […]

Feast Day ~ May 6 How often did our Lord tell his followers that God’s ways are not the ways of the world? How many times did he turn accepted “wisdom” upside down? How much of his teaching was counter-intuitive for the worldly? The saints are people who have taken our Lord’s words to heart […]

(Feast Day ~ May 4th) During the month of May, when the secular world around us pays tribute to motherhood, the church celebrates the sanctity of a mother whose perseverance is an inspiration for all Christian mothers. St. Monica was born in Tagaste, North Africa, around the year 332. Although her parents were Christians, they […]

(May 3) Having just experienced again the drama of Holy Week and Pascha – having walked the way of the Cross with our Lord, lamented his sufferings and venerated his Cross; having run to see the empty tomb and rejoice in his Resurrection – we now celebrate the recovery of this most sacred relic which […]

(Feast Day ~ May 2) Christianity abounds in apparent contradictions with the world around us. Our symbol of triumph – the Cross – is, in the eyes of the world, a vehicle for execution and a symbol for failure. Our Savior’s call for loving our enemies and turning the other cheek is viewed as weakness […]

(Feast Day ~ May 2) In 1881, in a small Russian village, the mother in a poor family was expecting her fourth child. Doubtful of the family’s ability to feed another mouth, she decided to send the child to a neighboring village to an orphanage. The orphange had been founded and was supported by one […]

Feast Day ~ May 1 It is almost impossible for Americans to conceive of a saintly ruler. We are taught from early childhood that it is only right to maintain a separation of Church and State, to keep religion out of politics and politics out of religion, that our Constitution mandates it. We also live […]

(Feast Day ~ April 28) In the early days of the Church, when Christians were being persecuted and put to death for their religious beliefs, information about those who were martyred passed quickly through the Christian community. Sometimes, eyewitnesses were able to record the words spoken at the trial and execution, but in other cases, exact […]

(Feast Day ~ April 25) As part of our 10th anniversary celebrations in 2006, some of us wrote descriptions of our journeys into Orthodoxy – the stories of our conversion to this faith and way of life. Many of these stories reveal a slow, gradual path (some with detours and tangents along the way) before […]