By Fr. Brendan Pelphery (Friday, 27th Febuary 2004. Source: http://dto.thischurch.org) Like many Orthodox churches, Annunciation Cathedral in Houston, Texas is set on a hill. Jesus said, “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid” (Matt. 5:14). Ours is certainly not a literal hill, because this part of Texas is perfectly flat. But …
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcOkNXVgSg4] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqnj8H6Xk5U] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2e_bTxTGSs] Introduction Not too recently, we at Mode of Life stumbled across an old 2008 Pocket Calendar/Directory of the Holy Greek Orthodox Metropolis of New Zealand and Oceania. Upon looking through this particular item we were struck by images and brief citations speaking of the efforts to establish Eastern Orthodox Christian parishes on the islands of Fiji, Samoa …
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For over a decade, Fr. Luke and Presbytera Faith Veronis served as Orthodox missionaries in Albania under the spiritual leadership of Archbishop Anastasios (Yannoulatos), with Fr. Luke directing the Holy Resurrection Theological Seminary in Durres. The Veronis family has now returned to the U.S., where Fr. Luke pastors Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Webster, Massachusetts, and is …
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When I was considering becoming Orthodox, a friend and fellow historian of African-American religion asked me if I understood how much Orthodoxy fit the aspects of African-American religion that had most personally interested me over the years. Several months earlier, an Orthodox monk had remarked to me how attuned he thought Orthodoxy was to the traditional spirituality of black people. …
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Dear friends, I stand before you all, deeply honoured and thankful for the kind invitation extended by the Dean of the Sydney College of Divinity, Professor Diane Speed, to offer the Occasional Address at this year’s Graduation Ceremony of the S.C.D. I remember fondly, my own graduation some 15 years ago, in May 1996 from St. Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological …
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I would have liked to be born Greek… A letter from the first Taiwanese Orthodox missionary Pelagia Yu to the Greek people I am Chinese, born in Taiwan and my Christian name is Pelagia. I was a Protestant Christian, and it took me five years to become Orthodox. I love to read the Holy Bible and have all of its …
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ModeOfLife Become love as God exhorts us, for this is the true starting point for changing your life and the world. For it is love that will bring respect, justice and equity into the world, not our personal opinion of what justice or equity is.