by Fr. Aidan WilcoxsonDo we baptize babies? Do we! As an Orthodox priest here in Central Texas, I get that question on a fairly regular basis. A lot of congregations in this area only baptize adults or children who are old enough to understand what happens in the ceremony, so folks are just … [Read more...]
Disaster & Disillusion: History Without The Messiah
by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon History was not kind to the Jewish people during the century following the trial of Jesus. Just before that trial, Israel’s last prophet wept over Jerusalem and foretold the destruction of its Temple, and within a generation of that prophecy the Holy Land was engulfed … [Read more...]
On The Holy Sacrifice
St. Gregory the Great, the Dialogist ca. 540-604 And here also we have diligently to consider, that it is far more secure and safe that every man should do that for himself while he is yet alive, which he desireth that others should do for him after his death. For far more blessed it is, to depart … [Read more...]
