Reflections in Christ

• Acts 5:1-11
• John 5:31-6:2

At Saint Herman’s Seminary in Kodiak, Alaska

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,...

• Acts 4:23-31
• John 5:24-30

Boldness

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)...

• Acts 4:13-22
• John 5:17-24

Metropolitan Philip and Orthodox Unity in America

Metropolitan Tikhon was the guest of His Eminence, Metropolitan Philip at the offices of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North...

• Day of Rejoicing (Radonitsa)
• Acts 4:1-10
• John 3:16-21

Trampling Death

… 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...

We live in a Facebook world—that is, in a world characterized by the presence of what has come to be called “social media.”  Much ink has been spilled describing this revolutionary new phenomenon, some people lauding...

• Bright Friday
• Acts 3:1-8
• John 2:12-22

Never Helpless

Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” (Acts 3:6)

Every day we...

The souls bound in the chains of hades, O Christ, seeing Thy compassion without measure, pressed onward to the light with joyful steps, praising the eternal Pascha.

(Matins, Paschal Canon of Saint John of Damascus)

The...

• Bright Thursday
• Acts 2:38-43
• John 3:1-15

The Spirit Blows Where it Wishes

The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of...

• Bright Wednesday, St John the Theologian
• Acts 2:22-36
• John 1:35-51

Christ is risen!

This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses. (Acts 2:32)

It’s 6:00 a.m. and I’m sitting in New York’s JFK airport...