Online Giving is so much more than just online! Our giving tools provide the ability to donate on our website: http://giving.parishsoft.com/madisonorthodox. In the near future, you will also be able to donate through a mobile app, from our Giving Kiosks in the narthex or even with a quick text message! To create your online account, … Continue reading What is Online Giving?
Month: December 2018
Home to Bethlehem
The Acton Insitute's Fr Robert Sirico has a beautiful reflection on Christmas. It is offered here in its entirety and without comment beyond my recommendation that you read it. In Christ, +Fr Gregory (Acton Institute) Although the word nostalgia can be used to express a bittersweet longing for some pleasant remembrance of one’s past, it is … Continue reading Home to Bethlehem
Lies We Tell Ourselves #10: “A personal relationship with Jesus is a PROTESTANT idea!”
Together with baptism, a personal relationship with Jesus Christ is the starting point of our life in Christ.
Lies We Tell Ourselves #9: “But my priest is my spiritual father!”
It’s better to think of your priest not as a spiritual father along the monastic lines but as a coach.
Lies We Tell Ourselves #8: “Well, all I really need to do is be obedient to my priest!
...in the hands of an inexperienced or ill-prepared priest, obedience is a recipe for great and lasting harm for the layperson, the parish and the priest himself