Worship as Sacrifice

A while ago, I was listening to the Lord of Spirits podcast on Ancient Faith Radio, and during the episode of "His Ministers Flaming Fire", Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick said something that really stuck out to me. What he said made a lot of sense to me, and put to words what the real difference between veneration and worship is.

The Significance of a Sacrament: Communion

 This will be the final post in this series, which means that I have actually finished a series that I started! Obviously, by the title you can tell, dear readers, that this blog post shall be about the sacrament of communion, also called the Eucharist.

The Significance of a Sacrament: Holy Orders

Now we come to the one sacrament that not everyone can participate in, and I'm not referring to just women. The next sacrament that we are going to discuss is the sacrament of Holy Orders, or Ordination.

Saint Laurence of Rome

Saint Laurence of Rome was martyred on August 10th in the AD 258.

Sunday of Orthodoxy

Triumph of the Icons

The Sunday of Orthodoxy is the first Sunday of Lent (which started last Monday for us Orthodox folk). This day commemorates the triumph of the iconodules (or iconophiles) over the iconoclasts. Basically, icons were removed from parishes for a number of years and then after a long struggle the icons were replaced. I'll explain a bit more below.

Only the Dead have seen the end of War

***WARNING: slightly political inside!*** I think I have decided to not re-enlist when my contract is up in 2015.

Mother's Day!

I just wanted to wish all mothers a very happy Mother's Day!

Lent While Deployed Wk. 5

So... Five weeks of Lent and today is April Fools Day. I really have nothing planned for the day except to take it nice and easy.