And after He dismissed the crowds, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. When evening came, He was there alone. Matthew 14:23 I wrote a lengthy reflection on my time at summer camp last month which I’ve shared with my parish as a long article in […]
A Guide to Goal-Setting for Orthodox Christians We are all given the same 24 hours in a day, but how we use and prioritize our time makes all the difference in accomplishing our goals. God has given us this gift of time and He expects us to use it wisely […]
He was still speaking, when lo, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, with Whom I am well pleased; listen to Him.” Matthew 17:5 Today has been dubbed “giving Tuesday.” There is never a pitch from the “Prayer Team” for anyone […]
The New Year is upon Us…. the Ecclesiastical New Year! By Pres Mallory Kasapakis Presbytera Mallory provides an inside and outside perspective to the Orthodox Church, as a convert to the Orthodox faith and now a Presbytera. Alongside her husband, Fr. Sampson Kasapkis their family is currently serving the community […]
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well. Matthew 6:33 What things make you the most anxious? The answer is probably unique to each person who is reading the Prayer Team today. Undoubtedly, someone has stress at their job, or in their marriage or with […]
Now as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints that lived at Lydda. There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years and was paralyzed. And Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and […]
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous Amid the turbulence of our life, the deafening noise surrounding us, the long and pointless conversations on the telephone or in person, the stress and uncertainty regarding the state of the world today and tomorrow, the Church offers us the period of time of Great Lent. […]
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos In the minds of people today, Lent’s a period of cleansing, of nutritional detoxification, preparation for Easter, not in terms of a change of life but of diet. This time seems to them more like a memory from the past, perhaps linked to grandparents. It leads […]
These preparations having thus been made, the priests go continually into the outer ten, performing their ritual duties; but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood which he offers for himself and for the errors of the people. […]
Cast all your anxieties on Him, for He cares about you. I Peter 5:7 Today we conclude our discussion on “An Uneasy Feeling.” I heard a phrase on a podcast where the speaker said, “When in doubt, pray it out.” Now, as an aside, today’s Bible verse is not […]
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous Those who, at some period in their life, have had a routine for prayer, spiritual study and participation in the services of the Church and then somehow, because of some ‘concerns of life’, lost it feel a void. This is why, when they’re asked ‘How’s it […]
You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier on service […]