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by the hand of Nick Papas Last week was Holy Week. Normally, we do not serve on Holy Thursday or as we call it, Great Thursday, because we are all in church for the 12 Gospels Matins. Some years, we have managed to find non-Orthodox people to serve in our place, but not always. This year, . . . → Read More: Holy Thursday Twice in the last week, at the same stoplight, I have found myself behind the same car with a bumper sticker that says, “God does not believe in atheists.” I’m sure whoever stuck it there did it to be funny and somehow thought provoking. Who knows? Maybe, this is what passes for evangelism these days in evangelical . . . → Read More: God DOES Believe in Atheists The way Mayor Nutter is phrasing things, it is like he has “invited” us to come inside and that it is all about concern for the health and dignity of the homeless population. When asked about enforcement, he says, “I’ll get back to you on that.” The devil is in the details. He started using the Health Dept. . . . → Read More: Why Can’t We All Get Along? OK. How often do we think of Tobit? The two ministries that Tobit is known for are burial of the dead and almsgiving. He would sneak out at night and bury the fallen soldiers, even though they weren’t Jewish and it was likely to get him into trouble. Here is what he had to say to . . . → Read More: Righteous Tobit This is my second “comment” given to Sally O’Brien to pass on to the Health Dept. of Philadelphia regarding their proposed regulation that would require us to submit a menu and schedule one year in advance, prepare food in a commercial kitchen that they inspect, get a permit, etc., etc. There have been no problems with . . . → Read More: Feeding the Poor is Sacramental ”Let us not overlook Him here, hungry, in order that He Himself may feed us there. Here let us clothe Him, that He may not send us forth naked from the safe refuge with Him. If we give Him to drink here, we shall not say with the rich man: ‘Send Lazarus to dip the tip . . . → Read More: St. John Chrysostom commemorated November 13th We started off the summer with high hopes. My health seemed finally back on track after the ordeals of the staph infection on the spine, the morphine overdose in the hospital, the secondary infection, the reactions to the antibiotics, renal failure, the ICU, the hives, the prednisone, hives again, the long slog back to finally feeling . . . → Read More: Is it time to dream big? I have been praying the Prayer of a Sick Person quite a bit over the last year, especially this summer. Since June 8th, I have had more days with debilitating migraines than without. I have experienced at least three incidences of strokes, the second two with multiple infarcts. I have been unable to do the work . . . → Read More: “… and let mercy and justice meet …” Aren’t there poor people right here in Souderton? Why go all the way to Philadelphia? The short answer is that is where the 150 inmates in the Bible study I led at Graterford Prison, with one voice, told me to go in 1989 when I laid out the vision for The King’s Jubilee. Of course, since . . . → Read More: Why Do We Travel So Far to Serve? “Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. Indeed . . . → Read More: What God Says to the Wealthy |
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