Share the post “Pastoral Burnout, Acedia, and the Inner Life” FacebookBlueskyShare… A familiar pattern deserves sober attention. A zealous priest undertakes a wide public ministry and gathers a large community. For several years he seems tireless. Then he begins to find everything dull. Conversation with parishioners weighs on him. Works of mercy that once moved […]
“The Priesthood is the Most Terrible Thing on Earth”
Share the post ““The Priesthood is the Most Terrible Thing on Earth”” FacebookBlueskyShare… “The priesthood is the most terrible thing on Earth. When a priest is serving, he has Paradise on the right and hell on the left. A priest will give an answer for every soul from his parish, if any should perish. […]
Regarding the Priest’s Clothing
Share the post “Regarding the Priest’s Clothing” FacebookBlueskyShare… by His Eminence Metropolitan Saba (Isper) Toward the end of the last century, a lively debate arose in Greece—especially in Athens—over what a priest should wear outside the liturgical services: the traditional cassock or the clerical suit. It is said that during that period, Saint Paisios the […]
