v Golden Wedding Anniversary for the Hopkos By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2013-06-09T17:46:37+00:00 June 9 marks the 50th wedding anniversary for Fr. Tom and Matushka Anne Hopko. In this special episode, the 2 of them are interviewed in their home by Frs. John Shimchick and Alexander Garklavs. Together they remember their early years and God's blessing on their lives. May God grant them many years! Full Article
v Parallel Love: The Story of a Band Called Luxury By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2018-08-07T19:27:09+00:00 Fr. David Bozeman, Fr. James Bozeman, and Fr. Christopher Foley discuss their experience as members of the band Luxury and introduce the new documentary about that experience. The entire band suffered through an accident in the early Nineties that led to their conversion to Eastern Orthodoxy. Here is the trailer for the documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y4jIPn96Ig. Full Article
v Transformation: Part 3 - The Greatest of These is Love By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2021-12-20T22:45:22+00:00 Part three of our four-part documentary Transformation: Same-Sex Attraction Through the Lens of Orthodox Christianity How are we doing as a Church at showing love to everyone who walks in our doors? Are we welcoming or judgmental? Does a warm welcome translate into endorsement of someone's lifestyle? If we are to truly love one another and bear one another's burdens, we need to get to know them first. Resource: Christian Faith and Same Sex Attraction by Fr. Thomas Hopko Full Article
v Will All be Saved? Examining Universalism and the Last Judgement By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2024-07-17T05:00:01+00:00 Fr. Tom Soroka and John Maddex will dive into the topic of Universalism and speak with Orthodox panelists who fall into one of three categories: Confident Universalists, Hopeful Universalists, and those who say Universalism was condemned as a heresy. We read in Scripture that God is not willing that any should perish (2 Peter 3:9). But we also read that It is appointed unto man once to die, and after that comes the judgment (Hebrews 9:27). There are those who claim that, since Christ died for all, we can be assured that all will indeed be saved and not face eternal condemnation. This is called “universalism” or “apocatastasis.” Was this teaching condemned by the Church? Who among the Church Fathers embraced universal salvation? Full Article
v https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/1/22559852/microsoft-windows-11-black-blue-screen-of-death-bsod-change By www.activewin.com Published On :: Microsoft is changing its famous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) to black in Windows 11. The software giant started testing its new design changes in a Windows 11 preview earlier this week, but the Black Screen of Death isn’t fully enabled yet. The Verge understands Microsoft will be switching to a Black Screen of Death for Windows 11, matching the new black logon and shutdown screens. Full Article
v Teacher AND Savior By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2014-09-05T21:48:01+00:00 Fr. Pat explains that the teaching given by Christ is inseparable from the salvation given by Christ. Full Article
v A Vision of Jesus - The Key, The Stone, and The Morning Star By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2014-09-05T23:08:07+00:00 Fr. Pat gave this sermon in Waynesburg, PA, at the funeral of beloved friend Nancy (Katherine) Thompson who fell asleep in the Lord on August 2, 2011. Full Article
v Wolves in the Synagogue By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2014-09-06T00:26:31+00:00 Fr. Pat addresses those who come to Divine Liturgy with bad attitudes and for the wrong reasons. Full Article
v Forgiveness By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2014-09-06T03:38:30+00:00 Fr. Pat distinguishes between "official" forgiveness and "personal" forgiveness. Full Article
v Forgiveness By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2014-09-06T04:11:59+00:00 Fr. Pat explains that the mandate to forgive offenses is not something we're disposed to do except by grace. Full Article
v Love Your Enemies By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2014-09-06T22:25:14+00:00 Fr. Pat offers three suggestions about how to render the observance of the commandment to "love your enemies" a bit more obvious. Full Article
v The Universal Birth Defect By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2014-09-07T02:58:33+00:00 The man born with the blindness that we all share sees differently and looks different. Full Article
v What Love Must Be By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2014-09-09T21:48:07+00:00 Fr. Pat explains that love must be intelligent, practical and generous, and miraculous. Full Article
v Starting Over By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2014-09-09T21:58:35+00:00 Fr. Pat reminds us that in Christ we start all over. Full Article
v Torah, Tov, and Chavod By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2014-09-09T22:07:20+00:00 Fr. Pat discusses three Old Testament saints that are particularly important in preparation for Christ. Full Article
v The Highest Human Activity By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2014-09-10T05:12:31+00:00 Fr. Pat explains that prayer is the highest of all human activities. Full Article
v Discovering the Soul By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2014-09-10T17:06:17+00:00 Ideally, the discovery of the soul should accompany the discovery of God. Full Article
v Family, Forgiveness, and Flame By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2014-09-10T17:25:42+00:00 Fr. Pat discusses the social structure, the moral imperatives, and the discerning moral light of discipleship. Full Article
v The Consecration of the Virgin Mary By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2014-09-18T18:35:59+00:00 Fr. Pat uses Aristotle's four causes to explore the consecrated life of the Mother of God. Full Article
v The Prayer of Those Who Feel Overwhelmed By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2014-12-01T22:21:23+00:00 Fr. Pat examines Psalm 3, a prayer that should be recited anytime a believer feels desperate and inundated. Full Article
v Giving Thanks By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-02-08T05:24:18+00:00 Jesus and the Ten Lepers. Full Article
v Three Provocative Questions By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-02-08T05:24:51+00:00 If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Full Article
v Rock Johnson and the Ohio River By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-08-09T04:45:08+00:00 Fr. Pat discusses Peter walking on the water. Full Article
v The Divine Fire By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2016-01-30T20:42:52+00:00 Fr. Pat explains the Holy Eucharist as Flaming Coal and Divine Bread. Full Article
v Jericho: Rumor, Vision, Praise By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2016-01-31T21:35:47+00:00 Fr. Pat reflects upon the healing of the blind man of Jericho as recounted in Luke Chapter 18. Full Article
v St. Remy, Clovis, and Us By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2016-06-02T05:19:23+00:00 If Christ really is risen from the dead, we have the basis for the renewal of everything. Fr. Pat considers this in his Paschal homily. Full Article
v How are We to Live By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2016-09-01T21:23:34+00:00 If we are justified by faith, if we live in the Holy Spirit, and if Christ is our Lord, then what should our lives be like? Fr. Pat looks at Paul's exhortations to the believers at Rome. Full Article
v And We Share Her Vocation By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2016-09-11T03:27:45+00:00 On the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos, Fr. Pat offers reflections about the Mother of Our Lord: her presence in the early church, earliest references to her in the Scriptures, and about the Marian quality of the people of God. Full Article
v Cultivation, Consecration, Navigation By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2016-09-25T02:13:39+00:00 Fr. Pat looks at three images of the Church found in 1 Corinthians 3 and Matthew 14. Full Article
v Have You Ever Misplaced an Elephant By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2016-09-25T02:15:01+00:00 Fr. Pat looks at three moral impediments to faith: chameleon morality, narcissistic morality, and indolent morality. Full Article
v Don't Ever Throw the Quadrant Overboard By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2016-11-27T23:14:57+00:00 St. Paul says, "It is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ" (2 Corinthians 1:21). In a certain sense, every verse in the Bible is telling us to stand firm. In this homily Fr. Pat encourages us to do just that. Full Article
v The Holy Ghost Over the Bent World Broods By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2016-11-27T23:16:21+00:00 In this homily based on 2 Corinthians 4:6-15, Fr. Pat reflects upon the glory of Christ in creation, in the Bible, and in our daily cross. Full Article
v Live Close to the Cemetery By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2016-11-27T23:20:46+00:00 Using Luke 8:26-27 as a starting point of his reflections, Fr. Pat encourages us to live our lives with an awareness of death as an important part of our mental composition. Full Article
v Captivating our Hearts to Christ By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2017-03-01T17:27:50+00:00 Father Pat looks at what we can learn about prayer from the story of the Syrophoenician woman found in Matthew 15. This is part one of a two-part series. Full Article
v Living in the Bottom Half of the Painting By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2017-06-02T17:17:30+00:00 In Mark 9, just after the Transfiguration, Jesus addresses the faith of the crowds surrounding the disciples as well as that of a man whose son He then heals. As we look toward the last weeks of Lent, Fr. Pat helps us think about our own faith. Full Article
v This is Not the Divine Peace By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2017-06-04T20:40:40+00:00 In this homily given on Great and Holy Thursday, we meditate with Fr. Pat both on the encounters that Moses, Job, and Isaiah had with God, and on Jesus’ agony in the garden, and the significance of these various events as they pertain to our daily practice. Full Article
v The Survival of the Soul By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2017-06-04T20:44:56+00:00 Building on his homily from last week, Fr. Pat discusses an example of the authority of darkness, and encourages us with reminders of both Christ’s prayer for us, and of our fellowship with each other. Full Article
v What is of Most Value? By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2017-08-02T03:10:40+00:00 Fr. Pat compares the three parables from Matthew 13:44-53, finding gems in the field, in the market, in the stars, in the sea, and in us. Full Article
v Receive Each Other By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2017-08-02T03:11:06+00:00 Fr. Pat examines the three steps that St. Paul takes in Romans to illustrate the theme of "receiving one another as Christ receives us." Full Article
v The Living Center By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2017-08-12T15:28:40+00:00 Christ is the Living Center of the Church, and He does not abandon His Church. The big question is whether we will cling to Him, or get distracted by something else. Full Article
v It's a Lovely Day in the Neighborhood By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2017-12-20T01:27:51+00:00 "Neighbor" is not a matter of being, but of doing. Fr. Pat reflects on this in today's homily from Luke 10 about the Good Samaritan. Full Article
v Three Visionary Perspectives By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-10-29T20:55:35+00:00 Second Corinthians has been summarized as “strength made perfect through weakness.” Preaching from 2 Corinthians 4:6-15, Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon looks at three examples from the Old Testament of God’s strength being made perfect through the weakness of His servants. Full Article
v To Cut, To Give, To Establish By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2020-01-04T03:49:46+00:00 In Jesus’ circumcision, God’s own flesh is marked by the sign of the covenant; Jesus' circumcision was the ratification and fulfillment of the prophetic dimension of the rite. Fr. Pat discusses three verbs associated with the Hebrew word Berith (covenant). Full Article
v The Invisible God Painted His Own Portrait By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2020-01-04T04:07:27+00:00 Fr. Pat considers with us the Icon of the invisible God from three perspectives that Christ Himself gave to us when He declared "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.” Full Article
v What Does the Cross Mean to the Believer? By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2020-01-06T03:33:03+00:00 In this homily from Palm Sunday Fr. Pat asks what the Cross means for each believer—what it does mean and what it should mean. Full Article
v Revelation and Obedience By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2020-01-06T03:43:36+00:00 In this homily given on the Sunday of the Paralytic, Fr. Pat explores three aspects of our obedience to God in response to God’s self-revelation to us. Full Article
v Vignettes from Luke By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2020-01-06T03:51:22+00:00 Using stories found only in Luke, Fr. Pat looks at features quite prominent to this Gospel. (From October 18, 2015, the Feast of St. Luke) Full Article
v Practical Rules for How to Live the Life in Christ By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2020-01-06T03:56:29+00:00 Fr. Pat expounds upon Paul’s exhortations in Romans 12:6-14. Full Article
v The Vigilant Care of the Soul By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2020-01-06T04:04:51+00:00 A certain mindset of vigilance is an essential part of the transmission of the Gospel. We do not simply hand on the Gospel, but we hand on that sense of vigilance and care that is essential to its reception. Fr. Pat Reardon compares Biblical vigilance with that of other traditions. Full Article
v Loving One's Enemies and Forgiving Offenses By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2020-01-06T04:11:19+00:00 The Christian love of one’s enemies is not ultimately rooted in the quest for inner peace. It is rooted in the life we have in Christ. Fr. Pat preaches from Luke 6:31-36. Full Article