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Survey Results: Observations and Advice for New Priests

April 16, 2015 Filed under: 23 Comments

We are coming up on graduation day for our seminaries, so I fielded a survey to gather the collective wisdom of priests to share with our new graduates and ordinands. These sets of “five things” are offered with thanks to the priests who answered the survey and prayers for all our clergy.  It's a bea … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, General, Leadership, Pastoral, Preaching, Preparation, Priest, Seminary, Tentmaking, Vocation Tagged With: advice, new priests, survey

Seminaries: What Were and Are They For?

March 18, 2015 Filed under: 3 Comments

This was originally presented in a series over the space of several months and contained a great deal of repetition.  I first published it in its entirety.  I have now attempted to out the repetition.  With thanks, Fr. Anthony By Ihumen Gregory (Woolfenden) Published in The Ukrainian Orthodox Wor … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Seminary, Vocation

Gifts and Talents and the Road to Hell

January 28, 2015 Filed under: 3 Comments

"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General, Pastoral, Vocation Tagged With: Ancient Faith Blogs, broken, Fr. Stephen Freeman, gifts, Glory to God for All Things, kenosis, talents, Vocation

What A Joy It Is To Be A Priest

December 24, 2014 Filed under: 1 Comment

An interview with Archbishop Seraphim (Dulgov) Archbishop Seraphim departed to the Lord on 24 November, 2003, the day on which the Myrrh-Streaming Montreal Iveron Icon of the Mother of God is commemorated. -Vladyka, tell us of your childhood. -I was born in Russia in what were already … [Read more...]

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40 Days of Blogging: Rules and Vocational Discernment

November 15, 2014 Filed under: 1 Comment

From OrthoAnalytika, by Fr. Anthony Perkins (15 November 2014) With thanks to Fr. John Peck (Preacher's Institute) for setting up the 40 day challenge. I have been the Director of Vocations for the UOC-USA for about a year and a half now. It has been a real blessing to help men and women … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General, Pastoral, Preparation, Vocation Tagged With: 40 days of blog

Patriarch Kirill: “Being a Clergyman Today Means Scaling the Most Difficult and Greatest Heights”

October 29, 2014 Filed under: Leave a Comment

by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow October 26, 2014. His Holiness, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, presided over the Great Consecration of a church in honor of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian on the premises of the Saratov Theological Seminary and celebrated the Divine … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Vocation Tagged With: clergy, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, sermon, Vocation

Knowing God’s Will

September 14, 2014 Filed under: 3 Comments

by Fr. Stephen Freeman “What is God’s will for my life?” No question is either more poignant nor more misguided on the lips of a Christian. It cuts particularly deep because it is most often spoken by the young or by those who feel they have lost their way. It is misguided because it makes a large … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Vocation Tagged With: Fr. Stephen Freeman, God's will, knowing

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