Commonwealth: Is it common for priests to have personal financial difficulties? What do you wish more Orthodox Christians understood about the burdens priests carry? Dn. Chris: It is more common than we think, especially in particular jurisdictions. Some of the time people know but choose to allow these financial difficulties to exist. There[…]
March 17, 2026, Today is St Patrick’s Day. It’s a national holiday here in Ireland, during which there is a lot of drinking and parading and the wearing of green leprechaun hats. I’m too old for that sort of thing, and the leprechaun hats don’t suit me anyway. Instead, this morning I was in[…]
March 25, 2026 My Lord, Perhaps one of the most difficult things in Your Gospel is that You allowed the wheat to grow together with the tares until the final judgment. In doing so, You taught us that Your Church on earth is not a gathering of saints as much as it is a[…]
March 11, 2026, fasting in general, and the season of Great Lent in particular, is, as we have all come to learn, most certainly not just about food. At the same time, however, it kind of is. One of the reasons why fasting is as difficult for us as it is, is that our relationship[…]
March 23, 2025, when I first read the passage in Luke where Jesus seems to turn away His own mother, I remember feeling very uneasy. I remember asking myself, what does it mean when the Lord says, “My mother and My brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.” It[…]
