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 […]

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 […]