Ss. Peter and Paul Cathedral (OCA) Detroit, Michigan, home parish to Share the Faith Ministries Recipient Priest, Fr. Phillip Dage, opens new Mission Center. The new Mission Center is dedicated to continuing Christ’s commission and serving the greater community at-large. Read more about the new mission center here. Share the Faith Ministries is the only[…]
Author: Chris Purdef
RETURN FROM BABYLON
SUNDAY OF THE PRODIGAL SON March 3, 2024 This coming Sunday we remember the Parable of the Prodigal Son. A Gospel that every Orthodox Christian should be very familiar with, we see the events of a young son approaching his father asking for his inheritance to go off into the world to begin a life[…]
The Perils of Coffee Hour
How we live in the Orthodox Church today, we can claim with confidence, is how Orthodox Christians lived a thousand years ago, even beyond. The Apostles trampled the earth after the death and resurrection of Christ harboring in them the experiences and counsel learned through their life with Christ, they learned through the daily witness[…]
Holy Father Porphyrius, Bishop of Gaza
The Twenty-Sixth Day of February Today the Orthodox Church commemorates Saint Porphyrius, Bishop of Gaza. We read in the Synaxarion that he was present during the historical period when paganism lost its prominence, the great persecutions subsided, and Christianity came to the forefront. However, as is always the case when new rulers take over, there[…]
Saints of Pskov Martyred by the Latins
March 4, 2024 St. Ioasaph of Snetogorsk Monastery and St. Basil of Mirozh Monastery (1299) The Holy Hieromartyrs Joasaph of Snetogorsk and Basil of Mirozh suffered under the Germans at two of the most ancient of the Pskov monasteries during the thirteenth century. Saint Basil directed the Savior-Transfiguration Mirozh monastery, founded in the year 1156[…]