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One of the saints at Tulsa, OK, Anna, is departing within the next few days. Please pray for her. She's often been called "our angel," due to her kind, charitable, and loving disposition. She's been suffering with cancer, which has spread from breast cancer into her bones and now brain. She...

Here is a link to the children's nativity play, The Legend of the Robin, performed by the children in our parish this past Sunday. I was juggling two cameras, so please forgive the poor cinematography, but I did add subtitles to help follow the story. :cool: Basil

"Would you be whiter, much whiter than snow? There’s pow’r in the blood, pow’r in the blood; Sin-stains are lost in its life-giving flow; There’s wonderful pow’r in the blood." I was just thinking about this protestant hymn, and remembering a statement a Southern Baptist relative made a...

This article is very sad. May his memory be eternal! Basil

I like this icon, but I'm just wondering, is depicting heretics okay? I know I've seen one where one saint, probably Athanasius the Great, was standing on the heretic Arius. I know on one hand we are to show love all men, but on the other heretics, who are proud and unyielding in their errors...

Here's a clip from our annual pan-Orthodox blessing of the waters service along the Arkansas River in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Basil

Thanks be to God! Our daughter, Alexandra, was baptized into Christ this Sunday at Holy Apostles Orthodox Church in Bixby, OK, near Tulsa. We realized later the video quality was set to low, but it was a wonderful occasion for us. Basil

Hi, all! Monday, October 20th, my wife, Hermione, will be having a c-section to deliver our 4th child, a baby girl. Please, keep her and the baby in your prayers. We have decided to name her Alexandra Calliope. Her patron will be Saint Alexandra the Empress and Martyr...

This NY Times article is highly biased, but it does show how successfully the Russian government is protecting its citizens against false Christian sects, which had crept into post-communist Russia. The west, and America in particular, should do more to protect its people from false...

What should we make of this man? A large number of Serbs, apparently, consider him a hero. He was extradited to the Netherlands to face trial for war crimes and genocide, but was his efforts to stop the spread of Islam a just war? If you know much about how the Muslims have treated the...

An important part of our walk in Christ throughout the centuries has been the veneration of holy relics, not as objects of idolatry, but as objects through which God has manifested miracles by the power of the Holy Spirit. In the Old Testament we can read about the honor given to some of the...

I don't know if plans are already being made, but we need to be sure we're prepared to celebrate the Church's bi-millenial celebration in 2033! Thanks be to God the faith has survived this far, and it seems like it'd be a great time to show our unity worldwide and clearly proclaim that this is...

My godfather, John, just gave this video to me a couple of weeks ago, and I highly recommend everyone watch it. I've not checked to see if it's online anywhere, but it's excellent. It clears up a lot of the misreprentations made about the faith, which are sometimes used to lure converts in...

Mormons Rush into Orthodox Church in Bulgaria's Burgas, Interrupt Service Posted on Thu Jun 05 2008 Novinite Sofia News Agency Two mormon preachers rushed Thursday into "Saints Cyril and Methodius" orthodox church in Bulgaria's coastal city of Burgas to interrupt the morning service...

My wife, Hermione, is prenant with our 4th child and we just learned today that it's 90% likely to be a girl, which is what we were hoping for. That gives us two of each. :D Please pray for a safe delivery-- it has to be a 4th c-section, so there's always risk involved, and I'd hate to be...

Every year Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma has a "Celebration of Orthodoxy" lecture. This year Matthew Gallatin, author of Thirsting for God in a Land of Shallow Wells will be speaking at the parish on April 5th. Normally they have a morning lecture and one or two...

JORDANVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Metropolitan Laurus, who played a key role in healing an 80-year schism between the Russian Orthodox Church and an offshoot set up abroad following the Bolshevik Revolution, was found dead Sunday. He was 80. Laurus, head of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of...

I just began reading a great book, I'd recommend to everyone: Thirsting for God: in a Land of Shallow Wells, by Matthew Gallatin, a protestant convert to Orthodoxy. Here's a few quotes: "The Scriptures alone can never show us what the objective truth about God is." ". . . the...

Please pray for my wife, Hermione, and our family. I just found out that she is pregnant with our fourth child. I'm very excited, but she is apprehensive about the suffering that's a natural part of pregnancy. She is also worried about the reponse of our relatives, because they think...

Anyone got any good books to recommend to one another for great lent? I think most of you have already read it, but I finally got a copy of Thirsting for God In a Land of Shallow Wells, by Matthew Gallatin and plan to read it. My wife has already, much to my annoyance, been quoting good...