What would inspire a grandmother of seven and great-grandmother of two to want to be involved with prison ministry? His name is Douglas Charles – my precious son who died in 1991 at the age of 23 as a result of using drugs. He left behind his then 13-month-old son John who is now 28 […]
A few years ago I did a solo climb of Kit Carson Peak. This is a remote peak in the Sangre de Cristo (Blood of Christ) mountains of Colorado. It was a tough trek, made more difficult by a chest cold I had been fighting. After being up above 13,000 feet for a few hours, […]
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the Main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a Promontory were, as well as if a Manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death […]
During the Nativity fast, Orthodox Christians are on a journey that culminates with the celebration of the Birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This journey continually brings us face to face with the issue of giving: The Father gave His Son…The Magi gave gifts…Saint Nicholas gave in secret…and even we give gifts to […]
Here is a great story: .. I remember confession in the monastery Grigoriou. Then (in 1981) hegumen George, who is still alive, told me a story. He happened to take a confession from a dying priest in a small town in Greece. The priest had two children with a very large age difference – the […]