Join Father Michael Marcantoni and Dr. Emily Adamopoulos of the Metropolis of Detroit for a special edition of OCN’s Facebook Weekly Real Deal. They will be tackling the daunting question of how to understand and address the topic of addictions, their effect on communities and families and what we can do Read more…
Join us as Fr. Marcantoni discusses the concept of implication, or reading between the lines, and how what is implied in Jesus telling the Disciples to receive the Holy Spirit and to then go forth forgiving sins is infinitely more profound than an injunction to “let things go.” What is Read more…
Join us as Fr. Marcantoni discusses obedience, and how God grants us the Autoexousian, the ability to self determine. A great portion of that is the privilege of deciding for ourselves what we will be obedient to. ABOUT FATHER MICHAEL MARCANTONI Fr. Michael Marcantoni is the priest at the Greek Orthodox Church of Read more…
Join us as Fr. Marcantoni discusses how the lesson of Job is one that gives us a framework to understand and process the events of Jesus and His Cross thousands of years later and how the journey of repentance is one of navigating this dynamic on a small scale. Read more…
Watch Now. Join us as Fr. Marcantoni discusses why truths are often difficult to accept but not lies because lies hide under the “appearance” of accord with knowledge, common wisdom or authority. Lies appeal to the fantasies we’d prefer to believe, but they cannot bring us peace. ABOUT FATHER MICHAEL MARCANTONI Fr. Read more…
Join us in Led by the Spirit as Fr. Marcantoni discusses one of the most difficult things to explain about the Christian worldview, why human beings should be thought of as the Imago Dei, the “image and likeness of God.” ABOUT FATHER MICHAEL MARCANTONI Fr. Michael Marcantoni is the priest at Read more…
Watch Now. Join us as Fr. Marcantoni discusses what Professor Jordan Peterson calls the “Matthew Principle” and he takes it as a recognition that nothing stays static. We either progress in the practice and application of the virtues and of justice or our capacity to be a force for good, to Read more…
Watch Now. Join us as Fr. Marcantoni explains that the Church exists not as some great moral or ethical system, we preach that the “glorious freedom of the sons of God” is more than just the banal satisfaction of indulgence, but on the contrary, the freedom to resist circumstance. Neither sin, Read more…
Watch Now. Join us as Fr. Marcantoni discusses the concept of apistia, or disbelief, and reminds us that we are all called upon to be disciples of Christ. ABOUT FATHER MICHAEL MARCANTONI Fr. Michael Marcantoni is the priest at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit in Rochester, NY. Originally from Puerto Rico, Read more…
Watch Now. Join us as Fr. Marcantoni teaches that the integrity of the Christian life is defined by the ability to stand where others dare not. ABOUT FATHER MICHAEL MARCANTONI Fr. Michael Marcantoni is the priest at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit in Rochester, NY. Originally from Puerto Rico, Read more…
Watch Now. Join us as Fr. Marcantoni discusses the meaning of the word myth and the Parable of the Sower. ABOUT FATHER MICHAEL MARCANTONI Fr. Michael Marcantoni is the priest at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit in Rochester, NY. Originally from Puerto Rico, he is a Veteran of the Read more…
Watch Now. Join us as Fr. Marcantoni discusses love, doing good, lending and expecting nothing in return. Photo credit: Huffington Post ABOUT FATHER MICHAEL MARCANTONI Fr. Michael Marcantoni is the priest at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit in Rochester, NY. Originally from Puerto Rico, he is a Veteran of Read more…