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![…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
August 21, 2026, repent before death closes the door of your life and opens the door of judgment. Repent before death, and, because you do not know the hour of death, repent today, even now, and cease to repeat your sin. – St. Nikolai Velimirovic
Published in the Nov–Dec 2025 issue, this article by Dn. Paul Najeeb Haddad invites clergy and faithful to recover the apostolic voice heard in the Divine Liturgy. August 11, 2025, each divine liturgy, after the Trisagion hymn subsides and the deacon intones, “Let us attend,” the Church places in our hearing the living voice of[…]
