The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. John 12:1-18 As some of you know on Saturday evenings after Great Vespers we have made a habit of having question and answer time for our parishioners. This time after Vespers is lovingly called “Stump the priest”. Now during one of these sessions I was […]
Monthly Archives: April 2013
The story of Christianity, the history of the Christian faith, the spread of the Church, is not simply a story about Jesus the son of God. Christianity is ultimately the story about lives that have been changed and people that have been redeemed by entering in to the life of the Son of God and […]
On the fourth Sunday of Great and Holy Lent we commemorate St. John Climacus (John of the Ladder). John was given this nickname because he wrote a profound book that has been used for over 1400 years (nearly a thousand years before the Protestant reformation). The book is called “The Ladder of Divine Ascent.” This book […]
Today’s reading is given to us on this the Third Sunday of Lent. We are now halfway through the Holy 40 days and on this day the Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates the veneration of the cross. In her wisdom the Church brings out the cross on this day as a way to strengthen and empower […]
Out of Egypt.. 