Holy Nativity Orthodox Church

I was cleaning up some old notes and ran across these snippets.  They inspired me this morning.  Maybe they'll encourage you too.  I...

Archimandrite Tikhon in Everyday Saints and Other Stories , toward the end of the book, tells several stories about his friend Fr. Raphae...

Bishop Ansgar (+865), called the apostle of the North, wanted to suffer for Christ from his youth, and he even had a vision in which he w...

Anger and wrath are near synonyms in English, wrath often being defined as intense anger.  But in Bible usage, wrath often refers to ap...

From activity that demands violence there is born zeal beyond measure. St. Isaac the Syrian To someone unfamiliar with St. Isaac, the w...

Bonnie and I saw Les Miserables (the film) last night.  It was almost a spiritual experience for me.  Why isn’t everyone who sees that...

The exodus is a central metaphor of the Christian experience. In the feast of the Theophany that we have just completed, multiple refere...

Faith is the evidence of unseen things.  This is what the New Testament tells us.  It's the opposite of "seeing is believing....

What do we do when the lights go out? So much of life is a roller coaster of ups and downs, sudden curves and unexpected jolts.  At ti...

Here is a link to an award-winning Russian documentary movie (with subtitles in English) about a Ukrainian monastery, Holy Ascension, that a...

I'm still working my way through Everyday Saints . I recommended this book a few posts back.  Now about 4/5ths of the way through, my ...

He who is pure of soul and chaste in life always speaks the words of the Spirit discre et ly.... But when a mans' heart is crushed ...

Boxing Day: 8:00 am Bonnie and I are at an art store to buy canvases and other art supplies at 70% off.  My heart is feeling lonely for ...

This Christmas night bestowed peace on the whole world; So let no one threaten; This is the night of the Most Gentle One - ...

Bonnie's father died yesterday, at 78 years old, after suffering many years with Alzheimer's disease. On the one hand it was a re...

Yesterday we hosted a film crew at Church. They were filming a funeral scene and wanted to use the front of Holy Nativity Church as a bac...

“Stunning,” as an adjective to describe a movie is so overused that it has little meaning.  Nonetheless, Bonnie and I spent the first t...