Things Are Happening for Recipient Priest Fr. Dmitri Mihaliov at St. Ambrose Mission in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

September 3, 2026, wonderful things are happening for the tiny, tourist trap Orthodox Mission dedicated to St. Ambrose of Milan. Where Father Ambrose normally has about fifteen to twenty attending Divine Liturgy on a Sunday, he reports the addition of two new catechumens along with three inquirers. Adding, “we have been able to provide the[…]

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How a Freak-of-Nature Wanders

  September 1, 2026, born and raised in Ohio, I spent most of my youth in the confines of suburban Central Ohio where I existed within a fifty-mile radius for the first twenty-five years of my life; sheltered in a loud, prying, yet supportive, tribal Macedonian – Balkan community with a relatively nominal Orthodox Christian[…]

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Third Installment: Share the Faith Mission Priest, Fr. Jesse Rimshas: Homily on the Afterfeast of the Dormition

  September 2, 2026, for the August installment of Journals from St. Jacob’s, Share the Faith Recipient Priest, Fr. Jesse Rimshas of St. Jacob of Alaska Mission in Marquette, Michigan gives us a word on the Afterfeast of the Dormition. May it be blessed! And may God grant Fr. Jesse and St. Jacob’s many years![…]

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Do I Have Open Windows?

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 1 Peter 5.8 August 25, 2026, it is important that we bring every area of our life under Christ’s Lordship. For Him to be able to do the sanctifying work in our souls that He[…]

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Fr. Stephen Freeman: Learning to Read

  Take care what you might unleash… August 20, 2026, I was once told that there was a traditional Jewish practice that forbade the reading of Ezekiel prior to age 40. I think of that as optimistic. I also think that the modern mind is unable to fathom the notion that reading is anything other[…]

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