“Dog gone it! I should have won that award not her!” “Shoot, I don’t understand why people seem to like him more than me!” “How did that clown get promoted over me?” There is a great line in one of my favorite movies of all time, The Island (Ostrov). A very scholarly, intelligent monk is […]
Day 6 of Great Lent We have arrived at Saturday of the first week of Great Lent! We are almost through one week of our journey toward the Glorious Resurrection of our Lord. So, how did it go for you? Let me ask you by a show of hands (hopefully you are reading this by […]
Recently, we received a donation from the Missouri Department of Corrections — but the State of Missouri was not the donor; a prisoner was. That’s right, incarcerated men and women, who often earn just a few cents per hour, donate to OCPM. And those who earn no money often donate their stamps to OCPM so […]
Today, Eastern Orthodox Christians around the entire world all read the same Gospel reading concerning the Great Judgment from Matthew 25:31-46. Each year we Orthodox come face to face with this Gospel passage, whether we want to or not. It concerns the sheep and the goats; even more importantly it concerns who will inherit the Kingdom of […]