As we approach another weekend of the Paschal season – including the Fourth Sunday of Pascha – it is good to remind ourselves of the place of the Resurrection of Christ in our lives, as that truly “cosmic” event can...
I have only one thing on my bucket list, and through the kindness of a friend I was able recently to cross it off the list. That is, I have fulfilled my life-long dream to see Jerusalem and venerate the holy places. My...
It has been a busy few days since returning from Kodiak late on Tuesday morning. I got off the plane after the red-eye from Alaska and went straight into the...
A question that recently formed in is whether there is Lent after Lent? Before proceeding any further, I need to offer two brief points of clarification: 1) I apologize if I have just happened to unsettle anyone with the...
Christ is risen! Hristusaq unguixtuq!
I’m still in Alaska and return to New York tomorrow afternoon as the meeting of the Lesser Synod is underway. But it was a full weekend in Kodiak and...
Archimandrite Juvenaly (Repass) met me at the Kodiak airport last night and brought me to Saint Herman’s Seminary (it was a long trip from NYC,...
And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness. (Acts 4:31)...
Metropolitan Tikhon was the guest of His Eminence, Metropolitan Philip at the offices of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North...
… they taught the people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. (Acts 4:2)
Cemeteries in many parts of the Orthodox world will be...
It was the most memorable Passover ever! Invariably, each soul that had been touched in some way by the profound events of historic importance resumed “normal” life. The Gospels certainly relate the most important part of...