St. John Climacus is honored by the Church as a great ascetic and as the author of a remarkable work entitled, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, and therefore he has been named “Climacus,” or “of the Ladder.” There has been very little information preserved about his origin. Tradition tells us that he was born in around […]
St. Ephraim the Syrian
Although St. Ephraim is commemorated before the beginning of Great Lent, he is more particularly remembered during this time in connection with the well-known prayer he composed: ” O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of […]
The Liberating Effect of Fasting
His Eminence Metropolitan Maximos of Pittsburgh Fasting, in our days, has become one of the most neglected spiritual values. Because of misunderstandings regarding the nature of fasting, because of confused and reversed priorities in its use, many of today’s Orthodox Christians fast very little, or disregard fasting altogether. Fasting was practiced by the Lord Himself. […]
Thirty-One Things You May Not Know About St. Brigid
1. Brigid was born in Ireland in 450 AD. 2. She was a disciple of St. Patrick, who baptized her parents, then her. 3. Brigid’s father was a pagan and married Brigid’s mother, a slave. 4. As a young child Brigid had compassion for the poor, giving away food and clothing and even her father’s […]
Saints on the Nativity of Christ
“The Nativity of Christ. — He has come upon earth, He Who in the beginning created us from earth and breathed His Divine breath into us; He has come Who “giveth to all life, and breath, and all things” (Acts xvii. 25.); He has come, He Who by a single word called all things visible […]
Hey Man, What’s Up?
“Hey Man, What’s Up?”, a true story by Mike On Tuesday, December 8th, 2020 I left work and locked the front door at around 8:20 p.m. I noticed that there was a car about halfway across the parking lot and there were a couple of people outside of the car. That is not too unusual and […]
Everyday Saints and Other Stories
A book review by Randy Hay Have you ever wondered what would happen if an Orthodox book managed to cross over to the mainstream market…and reveal our strange world in which fact is often stranger than literary fiction? What if The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios or Father Arseny skyrocketed up the New […]
Why We Love This Church!
Joy of All Who Sorrow is a place where people find transformation in Jesus Christ through worship, education, fellowship, and service. It is a place where the endless beauty and majesty of God is revealed to us, as much as possible in this life. It is where sorrows and burdens are turned into means of […]
Racism and its Grounding in Shame and Disgust, Part II
2020 Fellowship of St. Moses the Black Conference A Talk by Fr. Stephen Freeman on Shame, Part II Part I can be read at http://joyofallwhosorrow-indy.org/2020/10/28/racism-and-its-grounding-in-shame-and-disgust/ Some years back when I began doing this study on the topic of shame, which frankly was out of a deep personal need to deal with issues of shame in […]
Racism and its Grounding in Shame and Disgust
2020 Fellowship of St. Moses the Black Conference A Talk by Fr. Stephen Freeman on Shame Part I My topic is looking at racism and its grounding in shame and disgust. And I want to begin with a quote from the book of Sirach, one of those books that many Orthodox Christians forget is in […]
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