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The feast of Saint Ignatius of Antioch is December 20. If you’d like to read a good story, go to: https://frbillsorthodoxblog.com/2019/12/20/158-how-the-hieromartyr-ignatius-the-god-bearer-brought-2000-evangelicals-into-the-orthodox-church-in-1989/ _____________________________ Let me begin with a confession: Though I know the Orthodox Church in Russia has produced a vast number of holy men and women, for reasons I cannot explain I have never been […]

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I’m referring, of course, to: Saint John of Damascus icon courtesy of Saint Isaac’s Skete at skete.com To begin, I’m sorry this Post is two days late. Last week was just chaotic, and I couldn’t get to it. I don’t think I’ve ever failed so miserably, except when I was hospitalized. I am aware that […]

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Saint Nicholas Day, December 6, is upon us! from Stavronikita Monastery, Mount Athos First two icons by permission of Saint Isaac’s Skete at skete. com In the title above we’re using “wonderful” in the original sense: “full of wonders”. For the past seventeen centuries Saint Nicholas, a very obscure Bishop from Asia Minor, has filled […]

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That should be sufficient material for today! especially since we need to cover: 1 Two mistranslations, and 2 A clause which we might wish weren’t there (and I think you know which one I mean), but it is, so I guess we’ve got to deal with it. Give us this day our daily bread. This is a […]

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Names Most people today have forgotten the significance of names. Most people, even some Orthodox people, give their children names without reference to family tradition or patron saint or anything significant. They might as well assign them numbers. (“Come in, 008, it’s time for dinner!”) The most popular boys’ name in America lately is “Liam”, […]

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