Prepare ye the Way
Advent is a time of joyful anticipation. For someone even bigger than Santa Claus is coming to town. The human race has been waiting a long time for…
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Just Like Sheep
A few days ago we celebrated the feast of Christ the King. In the Church year this is always the marker of ending and the time to begin…
To Be Like St Nicholas
December 6 is the feast of St. Nicholas, bishop of Smyrna, certainly one of the most popular saints celebrated in our Church, as well as in the Eastern…
Christ the King & Last Judgment
Sunday Readings for Nov 26, 2017 On the final Sunday of the liturgical year, it is time to remember things that we’d prefer to forget. For starters, we…
Thanksgiving & Eucharist
For Americans, the term “Thanksgiving” conjures up images of turkey and cranberry sauce, parades, and bowl games. These “traditions” have come to mark an event made a perpetual…
The Parable of the Talents
Readings from Nov 19 the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time I’ve seen it time and time again. Someone decides to seek a better paying job, or pursue an…
A Jewish Physicist’s Conversion Story: Top Down to Jesus
Editor’s Note: Today we welcome Robert Kurland to our blog as a new author! “Be not afraid of faith: some are born with faith, some achieve faith, and…
All Saints Day means Holiness is for all!
At age 16, I thought that aspiring to holiness was out of the question. If you really wanted to be holy, I thought, you had to be a…
The Radical Rabbi and the Great Commandment
They are at it again. In this Sunday’s gospel Jesus’ opponents enlist a lawyer to do what lawyers do best- ask a question that puts a person on…
A Russian Evangelist: St. Sergius of Radonezh
Saint Sergius was known as a spiritual leader, a monastic reformer of medieval Russia and one of the most highly venerated saints of Russia. Born May 13, 1314,…