It is true all year round but especially during Lenten Holidays like Advent and that is to fast is to save to give more alms. The need is great in America to share the hope of the Gospel in these uncertain times. Holy Orthodoxy provides the greatest and most complete hope on planet Earth. Our[…]
Clergy and members of parishes that are beginning to decline will tend to notice something happening. At first, what begins to happen is very subtle, hardly noticed. It comes up during warm conversation, perhaps during coffee hour, and may even be, at the beginning of this period, something that is undertaken with joy and laughter[…]
Each year one of my favourite Christmas songs is an old novelty song called Snoopy’s Christmas, released in 1967 by the Royal Guardsmen as a follow-up to their previous hit Snoopy vs. the Red Baron. The song was inspired by actual events. During the First World War troops on either side of the front line[…]
https://www.oca.org/reflections/misc-authors/the-silver-bullet-of-evangelism by Father John Parker In a single sentence, it could be said that evangelization is everyone’s business, since it is every baptized Christian’s vocation to bear witness to what he or she has seen and heard, to speak of all the good that God has done in his or her life, to share the[…]
If we expect our children and grandchildren to grow into adulthood as practicing Orthodox Christians, we must give daily witness to the importance of our faith. If we are lax in our fasting, church attendance, and piety, our children will see by our lack of seriousness, a compartmentalized religion that is ultimately of no value[…]
