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 […]

June 30th, 2024 Stump the Priest: Question: “Did the Fathers teach Sola Scriptura?” 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: Nous/Noetic. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/pent1.pdf Propers for the Sunday Liturgy (Sunday, June […]

June 23rd, 2024 Stuff from the Priest: “An Orthodox Look at English Translations of 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: Aer. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/pentecost.pdf Propers for the Sunday […]

June 16th, 2024 Stump the Priest: Question: “Can a laymen give a blessing?” 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: Table of oblation. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/pascha6.pdf Propers for the Sunday Liturgy […]

June 9th, 2024 Stuff from the Priest: “Hieromartyr Daniel Sysoev on Interracial Marriage” 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: Iconostasis. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/pascha5.pdf Propers for the Sunday Liturgy (Sunday, June […]

June 2nd, 2024 Stump the Priest: Question: “In 1 John 1:9, the apostle teaches us that if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just, and will forgive us our sins, and cleanse us of all unrighteousness. But Orthodoxy teaches us that we must confess our sins to a priest in order to be saved […]

May 26th, 2024 Stump the Priest: Question: “Why do some Orthodox respond to “Christ is Risen!” with “Indeed He is Risen!” but others say, “Truly He is Risen!”? Which one is correct?” 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: Cathedra. Saints of the […]