Church and Life

I ask the reader for patience as I present a series of vignettes, to hopefully unpack what I believe to be an important message. First, my grandmother was a Polish woman gifted with a sardonic wit. One day someone announced ...

In October of 2018, the Catholic Church held a Youth Synod in Rome. The Pope, many cardinals, bishops, youth and others attended. In February 2019, the Holy Father issued a final document on the Synod. In 2017, the Australian Catholic ...

A number of months ago, I entered into a conversation with a work colleague. We began speaking about the lack of Church attendance on Sundays among those fifty years of age and younger. We were not deliberating on causes or ...

On Thursday, 12th of December 2018, our Patriarch Sviatoslav issued a document called “God’s Word and Catechesis”. It is in fact a pastoral letter of our Synod which was written during the Synod of 2018 in Lviv, Ukraine. This document ...

Dead Souls (B) Yet that the individual seeks to meditate highlights that within this burgeoning market of meditation, there is an aboriginal element yearning within the most atheistic or agnostic man or woman which understands that they indeed have a ...

Ever since I was a youngster, I have heard the people argue the most about religion and politics. It seems to be true but then at the same time it first does not sound right. Both our faith and our ...

Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that: “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” In fact it is a curious thing, that we never cease being perplexed at why our friends are attracted ...

Do you know how to raise your children? Of course you do. If you look around the community, you would probably agree that you raise your children more or less the same as everybody else does. But researchers, psychologists, community ...

The 40 day preparation for the glorious feast of Pascha beginning on Clean Monday and ending on the day before Lazarus Saturday. Associated with this fast is the week of Cheesefare and the Great and Holy Week Fast, the week ...

A cynic or perhaps better said, a realist, could quite plausibly add that the capacity of the Church to validly celebrate the Sacrament of Marriage has been significantly compromised since the disintegration of the family unit in the Western World; ...

We all know the story of the prodigal son, (Luke 15:11-24) from the famous bible story. It’s actually a parable which Jesus himself told. As always Jesus’ stories always have a basis in reality, even in modern day reality, – ...