A dear priest friend of mine is on pilgrimage to the Holy Land and other holy sites in the area. Recently he and his fellow pilgrims came to the final resting place of Lazarus, the man the Lord raised from the dead. And that got me started thinking about...
I love action movies, but I confess, sometimes, my ability to suspend my disbelief and go along with some outlandish scene is pretty near impossible. Usually, the idea that something like this could really happen is just too remote even for my imagination. Sometimes we Christians fall into the same...
'The intellect does many good and bad things without the body, whereas the body can do neither good nor evil without the intellect. This is because the law of freedom applies to what happens before we act.'St. Mark the Ascetic
I want to go with you! My daughters love to go places with daddy. It doesn't really matter where I'm going; they just like to tag along. And that makes sense. After all, daddies buy candy! There's something comforting about being with Another Who is stronger than you and seems to...
Today, just a reminder that Sunday is the Feast of Pentecost. This threshold from one Church Season to another offers us a spiritual treasure house of insight and wisdom and instruction on how to take seriously and actually practice our faith in such a way that our life is...
Recently I've been struggling alongside some dear friends, trying to get to the root of a systemic challenge in a community. In fact, this has become a full blown development of a strategic plan! And I've made an important discovery that I'm sure won't surprise you, but it has been...
Sometimes what's best for us isn't really apparent in the middle of our journey. It's only later we discover that an event, though difficult at the time, actually turned out to be the best thing for us. As the old country song says "They hindsight 20/20..." This coming Sunday is...
All too often we spend our lives waiting for that perfect moment when everything is going "right" and all around me is positive and affirming. And, the longer we live, the more disillusioned we become because that "moment" seems to never come! Oh, to be sure, there are flashes of...
Today the Lord reveals that "eternal life" isn't about survival or mere existence. He tells us through our Gospel Lesson today that eternal life is "that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent." Read the whole chapter of John 17 and you'll...
This ministry of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese Youth department is wonderful! I subscribe to this ministry tool and I hope you will too! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBQ0tNlGcS0]
