Holy Nativity Orthodox Church

A friend of mine asked me to look at an article entitled " Did God Really Forsake Jesus on the Cross " on the Truth or Tradition...

I was kindly asked to review the latest CD release by Cappella Romana.  Perhaps one of the most difficult tasks is to review a su...

In most commentaries and homilies, the parable of the Good Samaritan is read as a morality tale.  We are encouraged not to be like the...

We are told at the beginning of the Book of Job, and told by God Himself, that Job is a righteous man. However, for reasons known only to G...

In the Holy Orthodox Church on the fifth week of Great Lent we read the life of St. Mary of Egypt : out loud, as part of compline. St. Mary ...

In The Mill on the Floss , Maggie’s great virtue is her compassion, her pity.  It is a pity born out of her own sufferings.  Maggie can fe...

"I never knew any one who did such things." These are Maggie's words after she hears Stephen describe the piety of Dr. Kenn, ...

I have finished The Mill on the Floss . The novel ends tragically, but not in the classical sense. On one level, I was certainly pulling fo...

I stopped reading The Mill on the Floss sometime before Christmas. I just couldn’t take it any more. George Eliot’s description of Maggie...

I was sent a link to a video called Kony 2012 . The video is about the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a man named Kony, wh...

In this season of repentance, let us stretch out our hands in works of mercy; and then the ascetic struggles of the fast will bring us to et...

Several people in Holy Nativity have seen the movie Agora and have been disturbed by it and asked me to see the movie so that they can talk...

Recently I had a discussion with a devout person about the number of days in Great Lent. This person was concerned because, depending on wha...

On the first Sunday of Lent, we celebrate the Sunday of Orthodoxy, sometimes called the Triumph of Orthodoxy. I don’t like to use the latter...

Be at peace with your soul and heaven and earth will be at peace with you. St. Issak the Syrian

During the first week of Great Lent in the Holy Orthodox Church, we recite the theologically profound Canon (hymn) of St. Andrew of Crete ....