Commitment Sunday is November 8, our Patronal Feast of the Holy Archangels! Next Sunday is our Patronal Feast and also the Sunday we offer our commitments for 2016 to the Lord. We do so, knowing that “he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.” God always gives us more in return than what we manage […]
Weekly Update and Bulletin From Fr. Robert Miclean – October 25, 2015
In the Orthodox Faith, when someone departs this life in the hope of the resurrection, we pray “Memory Eternal” for that person, i.e., that God would remember them and bring them into His Eternal Kingdom. To be remembered, or known, by God who is Life means that they too shall live. The Fathers of the […]
Weekly Update and Bulletin From Fr. Robert Miclean – October 18, 2015
Our Lord presents us with an opportunity today to consider how we’re responding to His gracious and loving invitation to life with Him. The distractions and temptations we face in the world are great: they can smother the seed of faith that’s been planted in us; we can find ourselves on the ‘rocky soil’ or […]
Weekly Update and Bulletin From Fr. Robert Miclean – October 11, 2015
THIS WEEK AT HOLY ARCHANGELS: Wednesday, Oct. 14, 6:30p.m., Applied Orthodox Theology Discussion, St. John’s Boathouse, This Week: The Fourth Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon. ALL are welcome! Saturday, Oct. 17, 6 p.m., Great Vespers Sunday, Oct. 18, 9:30am Hours; 10 a.m. Divine Liturgy, followed by Trapeza (at St. Martin’s). Looking Ahead: Sunday, Oct. 25, 4 […]
Weekly Update and Bulletin From Fr. Robert Miclean – October 4, 2015
In today’s Gospel, Christ calls us to a deeper understanding of what it means to love. We’re called as Christians not just to love those who are good to us, but even our adversaries. We’re called to give and lend without expecting anything in return. We love and give as Christ loves and gives not […]
Weekly Update and Bulletin From Fr. Robert Miclean – September 27, 2015
Today Christ calls His foremost disciples, Peter, James, and John, from the simple life of fishermen to being “fishers of men,” in which they will give up all for the sake of the Gospel and the Kingdom of God. The Holy Spirit transforms these ‘simple’ fishermen into the great disciples and then Apostles of the […]
Weekly Update and Bulletin From Fr. Robert Miclean – September 20, 2015
The idea of denying oneself anything in today’s “me first” culture is considered ‘abnormal.’ The message of the cross of Christ, on the other hand, stands in stark contrast: Christ says to us today, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me” (Mk. 8:34). The […]
Weekly Update and Bulletin From Fr. Robert Miclean – September 13, 2015
The cross stands in the middle of the church today to remind us of this very truth: Without the cross, there is no defeat of sin and death. By Christ’s victory on the cross, we’re endowed with life. Christ God emerges from His encounter with the cross—the ancient instrument of death—as the Victor; He defeats […]
Weekly Update and Bulletin From Fr. Robert Miclean – September 6, 2015
This Tuesday we celebrate the fore-feast of the Nativity of the Most-Holy Theotokos and call to mind her miraculous conception by barren parents past child-bearing age. The Church acclaims the birth of the Theotokos in poetic terms so that we may more fully and reverently delve into the Great Mystery of God’s dispensation, preparing the […]
Weekly Update and Bulletin From Fr. Robert Miclean – August 30, 2015
THIS WEEK AT HOLY ARCHANGELS: Tues, Sept. 1, 13.00-13:30, Sixth Hour Prayers, USNA Orthodox Chapel in Bancroft Rotunda Saturday, Sept. 5, 6 p.m., Great Vespers (Confession following), DINNER following Vespers for all students and midshipmen provided by the families of Holy Archangels. Sunday, Sept. 6, 9:30am Hours; 10 a.m. Divine Liturgy, followed by Trapeza […]