Archive for March 2018

Yesterday I mentioned some members of your team during Great Lent. The success of any team depends upon everyone working in agreement to the different roles of the team. If at any time, team members ignore their respective roles, or the roles of other members of the team, success is not likely. The same holds…

Welcome to week three of your Great Lenten Journey. I really should say OUR Great Lenten Journey since as Orthodox we believe that the Church is a communal experience. We have been baptized into Christ, and therefore each other. As Saint Paul reminds us, “If one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or…

We spend much our time during Great Lent focusing on fasting and the extra prayers and Church services. We do all this in order to grow closer to Jesus Christ, but there is another part of our Great Lenten opportunity offers for our soul. In the Gospel lesson today, we hear about a man who…

On the Second Sunday of Great Lent, the Church brings our attention to a miracle and lesson for our soul. In Mark 2.1-12, we hear about the healing of the Paralytic who was brought by four friends to see Jesus. Since the house was filled past the front door, they cut a hole in the…

As I mentioned this week in “Do you pray?” I urged that we should not look at prayer as a shopping list. I urged that we should leave room for God’s will in our prayers, but what exactly is God’s will? In the blog I reminded you that when the disciples asked Jesus how to pray, He…

If you have been a fan of Be Transfigured Ministries for a while, then you know how much I dislike the term “sacrifice” when it is used in terms of our Great Lenten Journey. The word, which has Latin roots, has the meaning of “to be made or to become holy” or we could say…

Yesterday I suggested that fasting should be different if you weren’t not a monastic, but fasting without prayer is just a diet. So today I ask, do you pray? I mean do you really pray, or do you just list off a litany of needs and wants and expect God to “answer your prayers” and give…