GREAT WEEK (Holy & Great Monday, April 14) “Behold the Bridegroom comes at midnight, and blessed is the servant whom He shall find watching, and

THE ”LET IT BE” OF THE THEOTOKOS (Monday, April 7) “Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city

THE GREAT PARADOX (Monday, March 24) “For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and

ON PRAYING FROM THE HEART            (Monday, March 17) I’m sharing today  an email I got from a young woman-catechumen who is

ICONS & “ORTHODOXY” (Monday, March 10) Yesterday we celebrated the Sunday of Orthodoxy, which commemorates the triumph of the 7th Ecumenical Council’s teaching on icon-veneration,

THE LENTEN EXILE (Clean Monday, First Day of Lent) This past Sunday immediately preceding the beginning of Lent recalled the Exile from Paradise, inviting us

THE LAST JUDGMENT IS NOT INDIVIDUAL Monday, February 24 Here are some thoughts, my dear friends, on yesterday’s provocative Gospel-reading about The Last Judgment, Matthew

THE JOY OF OUR FATHER Monday, February 17   I’m struck this year, as we re-read and re-discover the Parable of the Prodigal Son two