May - June 2021

Loving Our Departed Ones - Not Just Missing Them
• The Commandments Of The Church
• An Incident from the Life of St. Ambrose of Optina

March - April 2021

There is No Orthodox Pope
• Who is a Missionary for Christ?
• Three Trojan Horses: Insider Attempts to Disorient the Orthodox

January - February 2021

The Worst Year Ever - Or Was It?
• Finding a Bible that Reflects the Orthodox Christian Faith

November - December 2020

Outbreaks, Mass Conversions, And Living Not By Lies
• Why Don't More People Become Monastics?
• For Reflection: That God Is Our Only True Friend (From the Prologue from Ochrid)

September - October 2020

• Message of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on the Coronavirus

July - August 2020

"When It's Safe" Means Never
• Our Main Reason For Feeling Abandoned By God
• One in Three Practicing Christians Stopped Attending Church During COVID-19
• Almost Half of Practicing Christian Millennials Say Evangelism Is Wrong

May - June 2020

Spiritual Lessons From The Coronavirus
• The Devil Has No More Formidable Weapon Than Despair
• Trudeau government excludes churches from COVID-19 relief if they don't sign on to LGBT pledge

March - April 2020

State of the Parish: Rector's Report to the February 2020 AGM
Why Do We Have Different Bibles?
Clergy Etiquette: Addressing Clergy and Monastics in the Church

January - February 2020

Fifty Years of Mission: Where is the growth?

November - December 2019

• Things That Remain
• The End of Comfortable Christianity?
• Who's Minding the Kids?
• We Have to Kill Three Snakes That Are Trying to Bite Us

September - October 2019

• Bringing It Home: Something To Think About

July - August 2019

Every Man For Himself?

May - June 2019

50 Ways To Leave Your First Love

March - April 2019

Are You "Culturally" Orthodox Christian?
• A Canonical Crisis in the Orthodox Church

January - February 2019

Voluntary Obedience: Our Path to Holiness

November - December 2018

Two Demanding Articles: Challenging to Follow, Impossible to Ignore
• Why Do Some People Leave The Orthodox Church?
• Committed Christians Are Now A Minority, And Our Kids Need To Know It

September - October 2018

• Catching Xenophilia: Contageous Hospitality in Orthodox Parishes

July - August 2018

The Half-Year Mark: Where Are We Now?

May - June 2018

Faith Tested by Fire, and Prayer as a Nuclear Bomb

March - April 2018

State of the Parish Report - Parish Meeting 2018
Cell Phone Etiquette For Christian Living

January - February 2018

Clergy Etiquette (reprinted from Sept/Oct 2005)

November - December 2017

Soldiers For Christ & His Holy Church
Why Is The Church So Dark?

September - October 2017

Who Is A Missionary?
Saint Herman's Cross: A Flag For Our First North American Saint
Faith & Friendship On Display at 2017 Archdiocesan Assembly

July - August 2017

• How Does the Loss of Faith Occur, and How Can It Be Preserved or Renewed?

May - June 2017

How Do I Pray? : Many Answers to a Common Question

March - April 2017

State of the Parish Report - Parish Meeting 2017
• Slip Sliding Away: Thoughts of Leaving the Orthodox Church

January - February 2017

Does Your Absence Make Your Heart Grow Fonder?
When Will the New St. George Church Be Open For Services?

November - December 2016

A Christian First. A Christian Always.

September - October 2016

Charitable Works vs. "Sparing a Dollar"

July - August 2016

• The 2016 Orthodox Synod At Crete: The Council That Wasn't

May - June 2016

What Does the Cross Mean for Us?
• Sharp and Grave Reactions from the Monasteries of Mount Athos to upcoming Pan-Orthodox "Council"

March - April 2016

State of the Parish Report - Parish Meeting 2016

January - February 2016

A New Year... But Will I Be Any Different?
Update On Costa Rica

November - December 2015

Orthodoxy or Death
Update: St. George's, Brantford

September - October 2015

Back to School?

July - August 2015

• On Internet Abstinence

May - June 2015

Saints Peter & Paul: Examples of Reconciliation
The Alaskan Orthodox Texts Project Celebrates its 10th Anniversary

March - April 2015

State of the Parish Report - Parish Meeting 2015
Commemoration Lists: Why and How Should I Use Them?

January - February 2015

Why Does Our Faith Fail? The Answer Can Be Found in Marriages, Businesses

November - December 2014

• What They Will Never Know

September - October 2014

Back to School - But What About School for the Soul?
• What Makes a Priest Rejoice at Confession
• The Times They Are A-Changin'

July - August 2014

Where is Our Faith in Everyday Life?
Faith in Everyday Life: A Practical Guide

May - June 2014

Drawing Good from the Bad

March - April 2014

How Should I Pray?

January - February 2014

Giving Thanks for Ten Years of Mission
• Setting a Good Beginning

November - December 2013

More Than We Could Ask or Imagine: An Update On Our Tenth Anniversary as a Parish

September - October 2013

We Have Complete Freedom - And That's The Challenge
Do You "Speak Bible"? The Most Commonly Misread Words in the Scriptures

July - August 2013

Your Money is Your Life: Why We're More Than Simply 'Spiritual'
Hamilton Parishes Team-Up for Annual VCS Tradition

May - June 2013

Orthodox Christianity and the Madness of the Modern World
• Faith & Culture Notes: Book Reviews & Online Resources

March - April 2013

State of the Parish Report

January - February 2013

We've Lost Sight of What is Truly New
• Faith & Culture - Book Notes

November - December 2012

From Our Rector: On Marking Ten Years of Mission

September - October 2012

• The Purpose of the Orthodox Parish: Part Two
• Asceticism is Alive and Well in the World - by Matushka Constantina

July - August 2012

• The Purpose of the Orthodox Parish - by Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky

May - June 2012

• On Penances and Their Use

March - April 2012

• How We Opened the Relics of Saint John Maximovitch - by Archpriest Peter Perekrestov

January - February 2012

• Church Etiquette - Part 2
• Orthodox Anecdotes: St. John Maximovitch

November - December 2011

Virtue: A Great Gift
• Church Etiquette - Part 1

September - October 2011

On the Conscience
• Spiritual Counsels of the Blessed Elder Paisios the Athonite (+1994)

July - August 2011

• Has Our Pursuit of the "North American Dream" Become a Ball and Chain?

May - June 2011

• I Look for the Resurrection of the Dead, and the Life of the Age to Come - by Saint John Maximovitch

March - April 2011

• Christianity's Misbegotten Child

January - February 2011

• The Definition of A Saint

November - December 2010

Finding the Perfect Gift
• Saint John Maximovitch on the Little Things in Life


September - October 2010

Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives
• On Church Attendance
• Spiritual Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Serbia


July - August 2010

• On Foolishness For Christ's Sake

May - June 2010

Remember the Catacombs
• A Word from St. Isaac of Nineveh

March - April 2010

What's the Point?
• On Palm Sunday

January - February 2010

Worthy of Preparation
• Individual vs. Communion
• From Blessed Elder Paisios the Athonite (+1994)
• What is Orthodox?

November - December 2009

Keep Christ in Christmas ... by removing gifts?


September - October 2009

Childish Things
• Patriarch Kirill attacks "Liberal Philosophy"


July - August 2009

To Everything There is a Season
• Saint Theophan On Saving Your Soul


May - June 2009

An Alaskan Jubilee on the Day of Pentecost
Life Outside the Doors
• Elder Paisios on "The Letter of the Law"


March - April 2009

Adjusting to the Real "Normal"
• Convert Syndrome?
• The Devil's "Beatitudes"


January - February 2009

Will 2009 Be A New Beginning?
• What Do The Converts Want?

November - December 2008

Where Did Everybody Go?
• Mission Notes: Saint Nicholas of Japan


September - October 2008

On the Time and Place for Confession
• The Universal Exaltation of the Venerable and Life-Giving Cross


July - August 2008

The Dormition: An Icon for the Summertime
• Unseen Warfare - Chapter 31 (Excerpt)


May - June 2008

Great Lent - Or Not So Great?
• The Last Will And Testament of Father Seraphim Slobodsky
A Living Church


March - April 2008

If Church Were Our Job
• The Three Degrees of Eating, by St. Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain


January - February 2008

After the Shopping Spree
• Spiritual Wisdom from Elder Paisios

November - December 2007

Saturday Night Fever?


September - October 2007

Our Canadian Summers


July - August 2007

All in God's Time
• Dilettantes of Orthodoxy


May - June 2007

After the Fast
Cell Phones vs. Prayer Ropes
• Theosis - Deification as the Purpose of Man's Life


March - April 2007

Surviving Great Lent - And Flourishing


January - February 2007

Redeeming the Time at Work, School & Home

November - December 2006

And Now for Something Long Overdue ...
Want to be Angelic? Here's How ...
And They'll Know We Are Christians By Our Love
• An Orthodox Pope Speaks on Spiritual Gifts
The Icon Corner: How-To Guide


September - October 2006

A Commitment for the Church New Year
"You" Who? Preserving Traditional Language in Church Services
• Our Absurd Search: From Counsels for Life by Father Epiphanios Theodoropolous
Orthodox Life: Finding an Orthodox Spouse
• The Church of the Life-Giving Trinity Consecrated in Pyongyang, North Korea


July - August 2006

My Way: The Perils of Canadian-style Religiosity
• The Feast of the Holy Apostles Peter & Paul (celebrated June 29/July 12)
• The Dormition of the Mother of God (celebrated August 15/28)
• Spiritual Wisdom from the Church Fathers
Orthodox Life: Internet Addiction
• On Obedience: (Way of the Ascetics)


May - June 2006

Looking Inward, Looking Outward
Get Out the Millstones: How stubborn attempts to "protect" Orthodoxy are losing young souls
Catechizing Teresa: Part 2
• Orthodox Crosses: Symbolism Confessing Christ Crucified for Us
• Sign of Cross, prayer kill microbes: Blessing changes properties of water
• On Being "Saved" - Fr. John Romanides


March - April 2006

"No Thanks, Doc": Rejecting Spiritual Medicine
Catechizing Teresa: Would we catechize Benedict XVI, Thérèse of Lisieux, John Paul II, or Mother Teresa if they wished to become Orthodox?
• Secularism and the Church: by Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos
• This Was From Me: by St. Seraphim of Viritsa
Orthodox Life: Holy Water


January - February 2006

The Nativity Icon
• St. Mark of Ephesus: A True Ecumenist
• Why did the Archbishop of Canterbury not become Fr Roman?
Tips on Tithing
Orthodox Life: On Taking Holy Communion

November - December 2005

St. Nicholas & the Shopping Mall: A Study in Incompatibility
• Towards a Fruitful Spiritual Life: by Metropolitan Gregory of Novgorod
• The Cure of the Soul from St. Gregory Palamas as an Hagiorite: by Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos
• Orthodox Church Seeks Virtual Saint


September - October 2005

• A Pastoral Word on Halloween: by Bishop [now Archbishop] Kyrill
• Halloween: Orthodoxy and Secular Culture: by Fr. John Moses
• The Holy Cross: Icon of the Fullness of Our Salvation
Orthodox Life: Dress & Posture in Church
Clergy Etiquette
• The Hagarenes In London
• From Unseen Warfare By Saint Theophan The Recluse: On The Use Of The Senses


July - August 2005

Virtual Orthodoxy: Living A Myth
Orthodox Life: Why Bless Fruit At Transfiguration?
• From The Desert Fathers
• The Blessing Of Vehicles: Sanctifying Our Second Home For Safety, Salvation
• From Unseen Warfare By Saint Theophan The Recluse: Aids To Success In Gaining The Habit Of Prayer
• From The Discourses Of Saint Dorotheos Of Gaza


May - June 2005

On Dialogue: Sharing Love in Truth
On the Making of Saints: Stained Glass or Icons of Christ?
• From Unseen Warfare by St Theophan the Recluse: On preparation for battle with the enemies in the hour of death, and the four temptations


March - April 2005

• On the Transfer of Love from Self to Christ (Way of the Ascetics)
What Canadian Orthodox Must Do to Keep the Kids Orthodox
Never Answer Spam?
• Excerpt from Unseen Warfare by St Theophan the Recluse
Arizona Monastery Pilgrimage Story
Icon of First Canadian Saint Finds Home in Hamilton


January - February 2005

• On Eradicating the Desire for Enjoyment (Way of the Ascetics)
• Use of the Jesus Prayer For Those Absent From Vigils
Evolution: A Critical Question For Orthodox Christians Today

November - December 2004

• On the Denial of Self and the Cleansing of the Heart (Way of the Ascetics)
• From the Gerontikon
• From Saint Gregory Palamas: The Narrow Path


September - October 2004

• On the Silent and Invisible Warfare (Way of the Ascetics)
Preparing for Holy Communion
• The Colour(s) of Vestments
Tradition and the Spirit of the Times
• From Saint Gregory Palamas


July - August 2004

• On the Silent and Invisible Warfare (Way of the Ascetics)
Pilgrimage, The Mother of God, and Orthodoxy


May - June 2004

• On the Silent and Invisible Warfare (Way of the Ascetics)
• Jesus Christ in Ancient Orthodoxy (Blessed Father Seraphim Rose)
The DaVinci Code: A Book To Try Men's Souls (a review by John Loukidelis)
• Orthodox Life: The Meaning of Icons
• Summer Reading: Selected works on the Christian Fathers and Orthodox Christianity