A Daily Vitamin, Spiritual Reflections
Dear St. Mary’s Family, Greetings in Christ! Click here to see the March 27 Daily Vitamin video message. God bless you all, Fr. Jason Houck
A Daily Vitamin, Spiritual Reflections
A Family in ‘Lockdown’ As we have been reading through the book of Genesis this Great Lent, we have now finished reading chapters 5-9, where the towering figure of Noah is featured. Very much indeed could be said here about Noah and the cataclysmic flood, but for our...
A Daily Vitamin, Spiritual Reflections
Greetings in Christ, St. Mary’s Family! Today, and every day, let’s take advantage of this disruption of our daily lives due to the pandemic. One way to do this is to pray in part or in whole today’s Compline service. In honor and memory of our beloved Fr. Anthony...
A Daily Vitamin, Spiritual Reflections
“Christ Himself bore our sins in His own body on the Tree.”-I Peter 2:24 On the Third Sunday of Great and Holy Lent we encounter the Cross of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ. The Cross, at times referred to as the Wood or the Tree in Scripture, is placed at...
A Daily Vitamin, Spiritual Reflections
And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three… (I Corinthians 13:13) Christians believe in the Holy Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In a similar way, the Scriptures teach us a trinity of Christian virtues — faith (pistis), hope (elpis), and love (agape)....
A Daily Vitamin, Spiritual Reflections
Dear St. Mary’s Family, Today, many of us, due to the pandemic, may feel isolated. Things that may have been accessible to us, like going to the museum, the movies, restaurants, etc., are no longer available to us. We may be at home, feeling isolated, not having...
A Daily Vitamin, Spiritual Reflections
A Reflection For This Lent When Services Are Not Being Celebrated Beloved, consider the following story from the Life of St. Mary of Egypt. It tells us about the Lenten ascesis or spiritual discipline that a certain monastery near the Jordan River practiced every...
A Daily Vitamin, Spiritual Reflections
A Pastoral Message to the Faithful from Metropolitan Nathanael My Beloved, The world has changed unimaginably since the beginning of Great Lent. As we continue to adjust our lives to the rapidly changing times, my daily prayers continue to be with you, the faithful of...
A Daily Vitamin, Spiritual Reflections
In light of the current challenging circumstances, including our inability to gather together for the Divine Services, we would like to send you a daily reflection, a spiritual vitamin, so to speak, to be read slowly, deliberately, and prayerfully. We have named these...
