May 5th, 2024 Stuff from the Priest: “The Paschal Hours (How to do them).” Click here for the Article. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com The Orthodox Term of the Week: Paschal Trikirion. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/pascha.pdf Propers for the Paschal […]

April 28th, 2024 Stuff from the Priest: “Holy Week at Home, Part 2” (For those who cannot attend all of the services in person) Click here for the Article. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com The Orthodox Term of the Week: Dikiri and Trikiri. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming […]

April 21st, 2024 Stuff from the Priest: “Holy Week at Home, Part 1” (For those who cannot attend all of the services in person) Click here for the Article. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com The Orthodox Term of the Week: Megalynarion. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and […]

April 14th, 2024 Stuff from the Priest: “Beauty and the Bible.” Click here for the Article. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com The Orthodox Term of the Week: Pericope. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/lent4.pdf Propers for the Sunday Liturgy […]

April 7th, 2024 Stuff from the Priest: “The Continuing Validity of the Moral Law of the Old Testament.” Click here for the Article. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com The Orthodox Term of the Week: Lectionary. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/lent3.pdf Propers for […]

March 31st, 2024 Stuff from the Priest: “St. Gregory Palamas on Christ’s Sacrifice for our Sins.” Click here for the Article. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com The Orthodox Term of the Week: Hesychasm. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/lent2.pdf Propers for the Sunday […]

March 24th, 2024 Stump the Priest: Question: “Is Lent Biblical?” Click here for the Article. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com The Orthodox Term of the Week: Epitaphios / Plashchanitsa / Shroud. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/lent1.pdf Propers for the Sunday Liturgy […]

March 17th, 2024 Stuff from the Priest: “Texas Monthly Hit Piece on Russian Orthodoxy in Texas.” Click here for the Article. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com The Orthodox Term of the Week: Prayer Rope. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/triod4.pdf Propers for the […]

March 10th, 2024 Stuff from the Priest: “Deaconesses, Female Deacons, and the Agenda of the St. Phoebe Center for Deaconesses.” Click here for the Article. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com The Orthodox Term of the Week: Horologion. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/triod3.pdf […]

March 3rd, 2024 Stump the Priest: Question: “The Esphigmenou monastery [on Mount Athos] has recently made headlines; what is happening with them and why are the monks being evicted? How do you view Old Calendarists like these monks, who have broken communion with the rest of the Church?” Click here for the Answer. If you have a […]