This article was originally published on August 20, 2017 Listen Now. We will now be including the daily reading of Epistle and Gospel with The Prayer Team. At that time, Jesus said this parable, “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his Read more…
Answers to questions surrounding the Christian faith. Email us yours at: info@myocn.net Question: Can God Forgive the Same Sin Over and Over? Answer: As a parish priest, I can say that yes, God forgives the same sin over and over as many times as we confess the same sin Read more…
Forgiveness The Cross was decided in the pre-eternal Council, so in a way God had forgiven us even before we fell. He took the risk of creation about which Father Sophrony speaks, for His purpose even before the foundation of the world was our salvation. And if the Lord had Read more…
Protopresbyter Nikolaos Patsalos The time of preparation for the Fast ends with the Sunday of Cheese-fare and so we pass into great and blessed Lent, which is full of mixed experiences and feelings transmitted to us in a mystical way by its penitential services. Today’s Gospel reading brings us Read more…
Our Lord always practiced what He preached! Have you ever heard somebody say, “Practice what you preach”? Well, that means you do what you say. If you give advice about something, you do it too! Our Lord, Jesus Christ preached a lot during His ministry. He traveled around, telling people Read more…
Answers to questions surrounding the Christian faith. Email us yours at: info@myocn.net Question: How Does Forgiveness Bring Freedom? This is one of the more brilliant questions I have been asked in over three decades of hosting the nationally syndicated Bible Answer Man broadcast. Why? Because it correctly postulates that forgiveness Read more…
Continuing the post-Paschal themes of healing, transformation and belief in the risen Christ, this Sunday we visit John 4:5-42, wherein we hear of Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman (St. Photini) at the well. In this passage, Jesus talks more to this one woman than in any other individual conversation Read more…