Save the date! The time is now and the need is great to reach communities that don’t have an Orthodox Christian Church Parish. Are you without an Orthodox Church Parish in your community. Learn how to, with the blessing of a Bishop, develop a chapel in your community. Learn from our panelists, Fr Dr Gregory[…]

I was desperate for hope and I couldn’t truly find it anywhere until I came to the Orthodox Church. I don’t know where I would be right now if it weren’t for Orthodox Christianity. God meets all of us where we are at, but there is always more beauty of God to experience and explore;[…]

In the late Metropolitan Kallistos Ware’s classic The Orthodox Church, he describes the Church as “a continued Pentecost”.  This is true, but it is important not to misunderstand his meaning. It is possible to understand the description of the Church as “a continued Pentecost” as meaning that the Church is an earthly organization founded by[…]

Fr Elijah desperately needs your help! When he first started as an Orthodox Priest, he was not only the sole provider for his family but also his Church Parish, working a full time job in a translation service and also separately working a full time job as a Priest caring for his congregation and housing[…]

On this Sunday, the Church remembers the Myrrh bearing women: Mary of Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome who got up early to anoint the body of our Savior in his Sepulcher. The myrrh-bearing women took with them spices that ‘they might anoint Him’ so we see that they did not go empty[…]

 The Orthodox year has a rhythm, much like the tide coming in and going out – only this rhythm is an undulation between seasons of fasting and seasons (or a few days) of feasting. Every week, with few exceptions, is marked by the Wednesday and Friday fast, and every celebration of the Divine Liturgy is[…]