Beyond the Plateau: Is your parish focused on Mission or Maintenance?
Clergy and members of parishes that are beginning to decline will tend to notice something happening. At first, what…
by Fr. Jonathan Ivanoff
Clergy and members of parishes that are beginning to decline will tend to notice something happening. At first, what…
by Fr. Steven Kostoff
“Remember, never to fear the power of evil more than your trust in the power and love of God” [Apostle Hermas of the Seventy]. ...
by Fr. Steven Kostoff
“Take heed then to how you hear” [Luke 18:18].
“Make sure that you never refuse to listen when He speaks…”
by Fr. Steven Kostoff
Fall officially begin at 10:21 a.m. EDT on Thursday, September 22. From my personal—and, admittedly, “subjective”—perspective…
by Fr. Lawrence Farley
If one didn’t know better, one might guess that our salvation started with the birth of Christ at Bethlehem. After all, that was…
by Fr. Steven Kostoff
Ironic indeed, that the Olympic Games—which displayed an array of highly disciplined specimens of physical prowess and stamina…
by Fr. Lawrence Farley
Missionary work no longer commands the cultural respect it once did. Indeed, missionary work is often grouped together with…
by Fr. Steven Kostoff
“Strictly speaking, a system of ethics which does not make death its central problem has no value and is lacking in depth and earnestness”...
by Fr. Lawrence Farley
The Nicene Creed was created to exclude. This goes against the grain of our modern secular society, where the word “inclusive” has…
by Fr. Steven Kostoff
We recently celebrated the Great Feast of Pentecost on June 19. All of the subsequent Sundays of the liturgical year, until the pre-lenten…