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Saint John the Baptist Orthodox Church, Canonsburg, PA
October 21, 2020
Your Eminences,
Very Reverend and Reverend Fathers,
This evening, we lift up prayers on the third day of repose of the newly-departed servant of God, His Beatitude Metropolitan Theodosius, of blessed memory. We offer these prayers in his home parish, the Church of Saint John…
“In my booklet, Of What Life Do We Speak: Four Pillars for the Fulfillment of the Apostolic Work of the Church, I define the second pillar, stewardship, as the “application of our spiritual life to the realities of the fallen world” (page 31). Stewardship often has to do with financial matters but it includes our care for other human beings,…
My Beloved Brethren and Blessed Children in the Lord,
Christ is in our midst!
It seems fitting today to say a few words about the Prophet Elijah and the still small voice of God in our lives.
The Prophet Elijah, whose memory we celebrate today, lived in tumultuous times. The people of Israel had rejected God and turned to idols, and their…
Today is Earth Day. As the focus of this day is mostly on the climate crisis, or connections between COVID-19 and climate change, we wonder, where is the Creator, where is Jesus Christ, in all our talk about care of the Earth? In a brief reflection His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon helps us to refocus our hearts…