Holy Nativity Orthodox Church

I had an intense e-mail exchange yesterday with someone at Power to Change, which used to be called Campus Crusade for Christ (the Canad...

Please consider joining us for our 2nd Annual Prayer Retreat on Oct. 25, 26, and 27.   Fr. Michael will focusing his talks on "The Ser...

Confession takes various forms depending on the circumstances and your relationship with your confessor.  At a minimum, it involves ...

King David is the warrior, which is likened to the ascetic practice of silencing the enemies of God warring in our minds and bodies.  The...

In Ron Dart’s essay, John Chrysostom and Western Christianity , he points out correctly that back when the East and West formed one Church,...

I have wanted to read Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (in translation) for a long time.   Now I have finally got it on  Kindle  (on my pho...

It occurs to me that after my last post on the Falling Asleep of the Mother of God and how this is an example to us, some of my readers ...

I often say that the Theotokos is a type of the Church and that who She is, is what we are all called to become: Virgin, Mother of God, ...

After Jesus rebukes certain cities for not repenting, "cities in which most of His mighty works had been done," Jesus breaks ou...

I have always been bothered by the "but" in the Lord's Prayer. I have wanted to say, " and deliver us from the evil o...

I went to a Houston Astros baseball game.  Foot-long chilli-cheese dog with all the toppings and a Miller-Lite.   They have mounted p...

I'm taking a mini-vacation with Bonnie at the Franklin house in Vernon, BC.  I'm up here to celebrate a Liturgy for a few families w...

Someone wrote me recently about a problem he was having.  He often felt invisible.  He didn't mean that people couldn't see him, ...

Like many who came to Christ in the days of the Jesus Movement, I was taught and came to believe that the Gospel was summarized by the F...

I'm waiting at the John Wayne airport. So many people. So many stories.   I'm reading "Look Me In The Eye," a memoir by...

The topic of the Parish Life Conference this year was the Last Judgement.  The key note speaker was Fr. John Behr, Dean of St. Vladimir'...

After my sober comments yesterday, I think some may wonder why they should work at all toward justice and goodness in this world.  Of course...

I made it to Orange County. The hotel is filling up with the clergy of churches from Arizona to Alaska. Lots of hugs. Lots of how's it g...

St. Gregory Palamas in his homily to the people of Thessaloniki on the day of  Pentecost ends with a warning.  It seems the "Barbarian...

Someone beginning to pray the Psalms asked me about Psalm 50 (51): "Why do we pray that we will offer bullocks on God's Altar?...