Holy Nativity Orthodox Church

"He who searches the heart knows what the mind of the Spirit is.” There is a tension in the life of the Christian between law and Spir...

Some days I am more thankful for being an Orthodox Christian than others.  This morning I was more thankful.  I was thankful that I didn’t h...

I wonder if most of us have had this experience. You sin against and/or with someone and soon afterward feel regret. In fact, you feel so ...

St. Gregory the Great comments that the heavenly temple described by Ezekiel (chs.40-48) is a type of the soul. Because this part of Ezekie...

My favourite Christmas song is Riu Riu Chiu  (and  this version includes some percussion, which I enjoy, but the voices don't seem as...

Thomas Hardy says of the main character in The Mayor of Casterbridge , Michael Henchard, that “misery taught him nothing more than the defia...

I was speaking to an eighteen year old recently who told me about her bucket list: things she wanted to do before she dies. At the time, I ...

Michael Henchard has lost it all. He lost his wealth trying to squeeze his rival and former employee out of business. Blinded by his desire...

On the way home from matins this morning I fell into a reverie (“reverie” sounds so much more sophisticated than daydream). I was looking at...

For the last two or three years Bonnie has been on an Emily Carr kick.  She has read everything she has written, read every book about her, ...

“Woe to you Lawyers! For you load men with burdens hard to bear” (Lk 11:46). Sometimes I feel like one of those lawyers, when I talk about ...

Sometimes I sing to my wife.  I don't sing very well, so I don't sing very long.  Just a line or two.  I make up the words.  Someti...

“But the proposal came ten minutes too late.”  These are some of the saddest words in The Mayor of Casterbridge .  Michael Henchard, immedi...