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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

One of the Ways Priests are Healed

November 27, 2013 Filed under: 3 Comments

by Fr. Michael Butler On 15 November, the first day of the Nativity Fast, I concelebrated a service of Holy Unction. Every year several of the clergy in Cleveland get together for this service, which is particularly loved by Romanians, so we usually serve it at one of the local Romanian … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General, Pastoral Tagged With: Fr. Michael Butler, healing, priests

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