When Fr. Andrew visited recently he showed me some cards he created on this site for parishioners to hand out and give to people interested in going to a new church. He graciously encouraged me to borrow this idea and I recently ordered 500 of these...

Today I was sitting next to Mr. Tzoumbas at the Cultural Center's OXI Day program and I noticed he didn't eat his potato or carrots. I decided to have some fun and told him to eat his vegetables. Mr. Tzoumbas laughed and said he no longer ate the two...

Last Monday our sexton Sam and I went to Congregation Beth Israel to a booksigning and talk with Ariel Sabar. Check out his website here. His dad was the last Jewish boy to have a bar mitzvah in the village of Zakho in Assyria/Kurdistan/northern Iraq...

As promised, here are a couple of photos I took with my phone of relics. I did not get a chance to take any of St. Paraskeva's robe because I was serving and didn't think it would be appropriate to brandish my phone during the service, but I have one...

I have had a few encounters with relics recently, and thought I would share them. (Interestingly, the Greek term for relics is the same word used for the communion that we consume after the service - the "remains" of the communion) -On October 10 Fr....