In light of the Corona Virus, the following new measures will be taken to protect our community and all those who come to the divine services at our Mission.  Please take a moment to carefully read the following: If you are are feeling at all unwell, are sick, or recovering from sickness, please stay home.  […]

Tomorrowwe begin Great and Holy Lent.  We put our earthly cares and distractions aside to journey with Christ into the desert with Christ.  We fast and pray as He did before facing and defeating the Devil.  We make the most of this spiritual ‘hospital’ so that we can take several steps forward in faith, growing in the […]

One week and counting: that’s how long we have until Holy Lent begins—the Great Fast!  We begin now preparing ourselves, body and soul, as well as our households, to make the most of this holy season of fasting and increased prayer and worship that is before us.  We do so in order to heal, to […]

The Sunday of the Prodigal Son affords us the opportunity to consider how much we value our ‘inheritance,’ our identity, in Christ.  The prodigal demands his inheritance from his father (even before his father dies) and squanders it on riotous living.  Having become a slave to his passions, there’s no sating them.  Having starved his soul […]

Triodion begins!  The three weeks before Great Lent (the Triodion) has begun with the Parable of the Publican and Pharisee Saturday at Great Vespers.  Christ thrusts before us a stark contrast between the prideful, judgmental, self-righteous Pharisee and the humble, self-effacing, repentant Publican.  Like the Pharisee, we too can easily find ourselves following all the ‘rules’ of […]

On Luke 2:25-26:  For the righteous Simeon, his one desire is to see and hold the babe Christ, the long-awaited Messiah made flesh, before he dies.  God, by His mercy, grants his heart’s desire.  Here too, we see that singular desire to see Christ, to be with Christ, to encounter Christ, to be in His near […]