Carta: Ef 4: 1-7, Evangelio Lc 12: 16-21 El Padre Nicholas predicó sobre escuchar la llamada de Dios. Letter: Ef 4: 1-7, Gospel: Lk 12: 16-21 Father Nicholas preached about listening to God’s call.

Fr. Evan welcomes Fr. Gabriel Rochelle to join him as co-host as they tackle questions together ranging from missions in the early Church compared to today, leavened bread in the Eucharist, and humility.

Listen to excerpts from this past Sunday's bulletin at St. John the Compassionate Mission, serving the most vulnerable in Toronto. "Jesus tells Mary Magdalene that He will meet His disciples in Galilee. That is the place where the community is fully alive having Christ in their midst. The place where you work, you celebrate, you heal the sick and feed the hungry with the Lord. The place where you break bread and drink good wine with the Lord and go fishing with no worry that you’ll toil all night without catching anything. The place where you take care of the sick and cure the demoniacs; where you celebrate the feast of marriage, plant, prune and harvest. The place where you learned what it means to be thankful for being alive because you tasted from life in abundance. Most of the time, life at the mission is called to find and to become a Galilee where the Lord can feel at home."

Reflections from St. John the Compassionate Mission about the Prodigal Son and Canada's Bill C-7.

Listen to stories from Brother Luke about people who frequent St. John the Compassionate Mission in Toronto, Ontario.

Listen to reflections written by Fr. Nicolaie for the Sunday of the Prodigal Son.

In the heart of every prodigal son, at the time of prayer, God prepares a real place ready to offer hospitality to the one that is wounded.

Just as there are different degrees of vegetarianism, there are varying degrees of our spiritual commitment in the Orthodox faith. In this episode, Martha looks at these levels from her perspective, as a convert to Orthodox Christianity. She instructs us to encourage one another as we complete our Lenten journey.

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Aardman Animation worked with Patrick McHale and the original voice cast for an elaborate stop-motion tribute #

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Fr. Lawrence explains the modern contempt for belief in the demonic and why it should be challenged.

How do we spend our Sunday mornings? At a thrift store? On a golf course? Before the television set? And if we choose any of these options, what are we teaching others by these choices?

What does the Orthodox Church think about gay sex? The official answer is not hard to find.

Some heresies never seem to die, but have a disconcerting tendency to pop up in every generation, rather like the emerging heads of the whack-a-mole in the children’s game one sees in Chuck E. Cheese: whack them down as hard and often as you like, but they will pop up again someplace else.

The work of the prophet Haggai is short and easy to miss; it is a mere two chapters in our Bibles sandwiched in between the books of Zephaniah and Zechariah. If you are flipping quickly through the final pages of the Old Testament he easy to miss. After ploughing through longer works such as those of Isaiah (66 chapters), Jeremiah (52 chapters, plus 5 more chapters of Lamentations), and Ezekiel (48 chapters), Haggai looks positively puny in comparison

Fr. Apostolos shares about agape from St. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians.

Fr. Apostolos continues the series on Divine Worship, discussing the beginning of the Synaxis of the Faithful and of the prayers leading up to the Great Entrance.

Scott Hanselman and his wife will be joining the walk for diabetes on May 6 2006. They've set a goal of raising $10,000 for this event and could use your help in reaching that goal. I encourage all of you to go to Scott's blog to find out more about this worthy cause, or go directly to diabetes.org to make... (64 words)

Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost

Sunday of the Prodigal Son

As we approach the Great Fast, the parable of the Prodigal Son prepares our hearts to return to God. Fr Tom teaches us that in this important parable we learn the truth about who we can be and who God is. (Sunday of the Prodigal Son)

On the feast of the Nativity of Christ, we celebrate the eternal Word of God taking on Human flesh and identifying with our humanity. Fr Tom reminds us that we also celebrate being adopted by God into His family as true children of God. (The Nativity of Christ)

The parable of the Prodigal Son is a powerful image of our returning to God and the Father's rich mercy in restoring us. Fr Tom reminds us that we must be able both to admit that we have separated ourselves from God's life and have the deep desire to return to the riches of His Kingdom.

The New Testament is full of amazing stories about the healings performed by Jesus and the Apostles. Fr Thomas reminds us that in order to be made completely whole by the Lord, we must continue in our effort to glory in the cross by dying to the world. (22nd Sunday after Pentecost)

As soon as our Lord is born in Bethlehem, the Scriptures record that the evil one is working through Herod to destroy him. Fr Thomas reminds us that the darkness will always fight against the Light, but we can choose our path wisely.

On the Sunday of the Prodigal Son, Fr. Tom shows us how the love of the Father embraces us in all of our filth. The only washing required is that of our own tears.

St Paul startles us by claiming that he has someone living inside him; moreover this person is Christ. But it doesn't stop there! Christ is able to live inside him because he has died, or rather he has been crucified with Christ.

The guest preacher was Fr. Yves Dubois with a sermon on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son.

Fr.Gregory reminds us that the West was also Orthodox once and that it can be again.

Fr. Gregory talks about the life of St. Aidan, patron saint of St. Aidan's Orthodox Church.

In this, the time of salvation, God does not hold our sins against us—if we come to him for forgiveness and cooperate with Him in turning our life around.

Fr. Emmanuel Kahn reflects on two healings by one Lord Jesus Christ.

Fr. Gregory Hallam speaks about the Enlightener - St. Patrick of Ireland.