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Podcast Episode #17: Advice for Preparing For and Dealing With Parish Disasters

December 19, 2016 Filed under: Leave a Comment

Good Guys Wear Black Podcast (Ancient Faith Radio), 19 December 2016 Fr. Anthony Perkins On St. Michael's Day of 2012, the parish of St. Michael the Archangel (UOC-USA) in Woonsocket, RI suffered tremendous damage from a fire. In this podcast, Fr. Anthony, the priest of St. Michael's at that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, General, Leadership, Pastoral, podcast, Priest

This Thing Decreased My Stress as a Pastor – Fr. Andrew Damick

December 15, 2016 Filed under: Leave a Comment

From Roads from Emmaus (14 December 2016) By Fr. Andrew Damick This week an article about pastors quitting ministry and even Christianity itself circulated among some of the clergy I know. I see articles like this all the time. Among this one’s ominous passages is this one: [ExPastors.com] co … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, General, Pastoral, Priest Tagged With: Damick

The Priest and the Parish Council (by Fr. Lawerence Farley)

December 10, 2016 Filed under: Leave a Comment

Parish Councils are like personal computers in a number of ways. The initials for both are P.C.; neither existed before very modern times, and we can scarcely imagine life in the church here in the West without them. It is sobering and somewhat instructive to learn that in the early church … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, General, Leadership, Pastoral, Priest Tagged With: conciliarity, farley, parish board

What a Clergyman Should and Should Not Be

July 21, 2016 Filed under: 1 Comment

Presentation by His Grace Bishop Christoforos of Andida. It is truly an exceptional honour but also a great responsibility for all of us that we have been chosen by God to be clergymen. The Lord Himself affirms: “You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you” (John 15:16). The Greek word for a c … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bishop, Deacon, Featured, Priest Tagged With: clergyman

What Is It To Be A “Former” Priest

July 19, 2016 Filed under: 7 Comments

Interviewed by Alexander Vygovskyy For obvious reasons, we do not use real names and places, so as not to repeatedly "rub salt in the wound" in the soul of a man who has lost the honor of being a priest and serving the altar. So, our source — Alexander, is now just Alexander ... Let us need the w … [Read more...]

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Abbot Tryphon – graceful love (not therapy) is needed

June 11, 2016 Filed under: Leave a Comment

Self-Appointed Therapists: When correcting others becomes a form of abuse Abbot Tryphon in The Morning Offering (11 June 2016) When focusing on the sins of others, we set for ourselves the mission of correcting them. We see ourselves as called to help this poor, unfortunate one by pointing out th … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, General, Pastoral Tagged With: judgment, therapy, Tryphon

A Case Study in Church Division – and repentance

June 4, 2016 Filed under: 1 Comment

This article, "The Widowmaker Repents", recently appeared in my Facebook Newsfeed.  It's a couple years old, but still well worth the read. One of the challenges of Orthodoxy in America is that so many of our parishes were founded out of schism.  Whether the split was from Rome (as is the c … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, General, Priest Tagged With: division, healing, priest-killers

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