Bearing Fruit, Becoming Flame
There's a story told about a company hiring truck drivers to drive dynamite through the mountains. They brought in the first driver to...
Mercy and the New Creation
An axiom of Orthodox spiritual life is that we must constantly and always start over. Every day, every moment of our life, must become...
Sermon on the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos - Saint John of Kronstadt
Let us be happy, beloved brothers and sisters that we belong to the Holy Orthodox Church, worthily and rightly glorifying the Most Holy...
Make a New Start
We commemorate this Sunday our first American saint, St Herman of Alaska. As we sing in the hymns to St Herman, he is our “Northstar”,...
"Bless the Lord, all you His angels"
We have, over the past few weeks, looked at Psalm 102, the first antiphon of the Divine Liturgy, to see what we can learn here about...
“…forget not!”
Last week we began a look at Psalm 102 by noting its uniqueness in that it is addressed, not to God, but to the psalmist’s soul. The...
“Bless the Lord, O my soul!”
Thus begins Psalm 102, one of the most well-known psalms in the entire Psalter. It is well-known in the Orthodox Church because of its...
“…and seldom was heard a discouraging word…”
As kid growing up in Kansas the song “Home on the Range” was common in our region’s musical repertoire. I do remember, however, being...
The Holy Apostles Peter and Paul
As we approach the end of the Apostles’ Fast and the feast of Saints Peter and Paul on Monday it might be good for us to reflect on these...
“In the Divine Liturgy we live Christ….”
We Orthodox live Christ in the Divine Liturgy, or rather Christ lives within us during the duration of the Divine Liturgy. The Divine...
