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Two Scripture Verses You Should Memorize Today

November 4, 2018 Filed under: Leave a Comment

Are you discerning a vocation? Do you think about serving Christ as a priest or deacon? Wondering why things seem to slam up against you? Do you feel like you are charging upstream, against the current, sinking in quicksand half the time? You're not just being tested - you're being trained! … [Read more...]

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How to Become a Reader

September 18, 2018 Filed under: Leave a Comment

Question: "How does one become a Reader, and what does a Reader do?" We learn a great deal about what it means to be a Reader from the admonition that the bishop gives to a Reader after he is tonsured (i.e., made a Reader): "My son, the first degree in the Priesthood is that of Reader. It beh … [Read more...]

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Abbot Tryphon: Narcissistic Clericalism

August 26, 2018 Filed under: Leave a Comment

Narcissistic Clericalism August 17, 2018; Abbot Tryphon, The Morning Offering Clericalism shouldn’t have anything to do with Christianity   The recent release of the findings of the District Attorney of Pennsylvania, have resurrected the memory of the failure of the hierarchs of th … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bishop, Featured, General, Pastoral, Priest Tagged With: Abbot Tryphon, clergy abuse scandal, Morning Offering

The Role of Narcissistic Personality Disorder in the RC Scandal

August 24, 2018 Filed under: Leave a Comment

The revelations of decades of abuse and cover-ups in the Roman Catholic Church is gut-wrenching.  It calls for recognition, repentance, and penance on a massive scale.  It also calls for serious study so that reforms (and reforms MUST come!) are effective.  One of the challenges is that no one is go … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bishop, Featured, General, Leadership, Pastoral, Priest, Seminary, Vocation Tagged With: Abuse, Catholic, Scandal

Rod Dreher: Letter from a Frustrated Priest

July 17, 2018 Filed under: Leave a Comment

In the article excerpted from below, Rod Dreher is writing specifically about the culture of the Roman Catholic Church.  Therefore many of the points that he and the priests he quotes make do not apply to the Orthodox Church.  However, to the extent that the problem is really about power, then any in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, General, Pastoral, Priest, Tentmaking, Vocation Tagged With: American Conservative, Dreher

Your Vocation is My Vocation (Homily by Fr. Gregory Jensen)

July 15, 2018 Filed under: Leave a Comment

Homily given by Fr. Gregory Jensen at Ss Cyril & Methodius Ukrainian Orthodox Mission,  an Orthodox Christian community on the campus of UW-Madison Sunday, July 15 (O.S., July 2), 2018: 7th Sunday after Pentecost; Placing of the Robe of the Mother of God. Epistle: Romans 15:1-7/Hebrews 9:1 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, General, Vocation

Spiritual Gifts and Your Vocation (Homily by Fr. Gregory Jensen)

July 8, 2018 Filed under: Leave a Comment

Homily given by Fr. Gregory Jensen at Ss Cyril & Methodius Ukrainian Orthodox Mission, an Orthodox Christian community on the campus of UW-Madison Sunday, July 8 (O.S., June 25), 2018: 6th Sunday after Pentecost; Virgin-martyr Febronia of Nisibis (304). Epistle: Romans 12 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, General, Vocation

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