September 15th, 2024 Stump the Priest: “How do you find the time to do all the things we should do as Christians, with all the demands that today’s world puts on us?” Click here for the Answer. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com The Orthodox Term of the Week: […]

September 8th, 2024 Stump the Priest: “Why does the Orthodox Church require adults who are preparing for baptism to become catechumens, and to wait before they are allowed to be baptized. This requirement does not fit the pattern of conversions in Acts. On the day of Pentecost, about the 3000 that were baptized the same day […]

September 1st, 2024 Stuff from the Priest: “Should Orthodox Christians Vote? Two Contemporary Saints Answer.” 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: Gluttony. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/pent10.pdf Propers for the Sunday Liturgy […]

August 25th, 2024 Stump the Priest: Question:”What is the meaning of the Feast of Tabernacles?” Click here for the Answer. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com The Orthodox Term of the Week: Logismoi. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/pent9.pdf Propers […]

August 18th, 2024 Stuff from the Priest: Christians and Entertainment. 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/pent8.pdf Propers for the Sunday Liturgy (Sunday, August 18th): https://www.saintjonah.org/lit/lit_august05_t7.htm […]

August 11th, 2024 Stump the Priest: Question: “Since Christ forbids us to make oaths (Matthew 5:33-36),why does the Orthodox Church allow them?” Click here for the Answer. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com The Orthodox Term of the Week: Kollyva. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying […]

August 4th, 2024 Stump the Priest: Question: “What is the soul?” Click here for the Answer. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com The Orthodox Term of the Week: Canon Law. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/pent6.pdf Propers for the Sunday Liturgy (Sunday, August 4th): […]

July 28th, 2024 Stump the Priest: Question: “I often hear sin is sin and no sin is greater than another. What’s the church’s stance on this particular subject?” Click here for the Answer. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com The Orthodox Term of the Week: Conciliarity. Saints of the Day for Sunday and […]

July 21st, 2024 Stump the Priest: Question: “What are we to make of parts of the Liturgy that seem to be relics from a time when the Liturgy was closed to the general public? For example: the dismissal of the catechumens: “Catechumens, depart!” “The doors! The doors!” (usually interpreted as ‘close and guard the doors’). In […]

July 7th, 2024 Stump the Priest: Question: “How do you reconcile the Orthodox practice of clergy and monastics not cutting their hair with 1st Corinthians 11:14, which says: “Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him”?” Click here for the Answer. If you have a […]