St. Luke Orthodox Christian Church

Orthodox Christianity in Spokane, WA

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      • What to Do if a Confessed Sin Continues to Bother Your Conscience
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“Let Us Not Be Afraid! Let Us Be Full of Zeal and Courage!”

November 8, 2020 By Father Timothy

The Polish Council of Bishops’ Exhortation to Their Priests and Monastics During the Pandemic On Tuesday, November 3, the Polish Council of Bishops met in Warsaw under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland. Among other matters, the hierarchs discussed the life of the Church in this extended time of […]

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HOMILY BY BISHOP IRENEI: ‘THE CHURCH WILL NEVER ALTER HER BELIEFS OR PRACTICES OUT OF FEAR’

November 2, 2020 By Father Timothy

Bishop Irenei (Steenberg) Photo: gefter.ru     In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. My dear brothers and sisters: we are living now in a moment that demands faith — and not faith in ourselves, or in our civil structures, in governments or in the wisdom of men. We are living in […]

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Photos of Parish Life

September 19, 2020 By Father Timothy

A visual look into parish life at St. Luke Orthodox Church in Spokane, WA.

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What to Do if a Confessed Sin Continues to Bother Your Conscience

July 12, 2020 By Father Timothy

Priest Andrei Chizhenko A sin is confessed, but it continues to bother your conscience. What should you do? Must it be confessed a second time? Fr. Andrei Chizhenko examines the issue. Andrei Nikolaevich Mironov. Conscience The holy fathers compare sin with a weed in a garden, and the garden, accordingly, with the heart. They spoke […]

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Open Letter to The Honourable Gavin Newsom, Governor of California

July 9, 2020 By Father Timothy

OPEN LETTER to the Honourable Gavin Newsom, Governor of California Open Letter to The Honourable Gavin Newsom, Governor of California from His Eminence Kyrill Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America  in light of the decree issued by the Governor of California  that forbids choral singing in churches. Your Excellency, I hereby express my protest against the recent prohibition […]

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Synaxis of the Saints of North America

June 20, 2020 By Father Timothy

Commemorated on June 21 Troparion & Kontakion On the second Sunday after Pentecost, each local Orthodox Church commemorates all the saints, known and unknown, who have shone forth in its territory. Accordingly, the Orthodox Church in America remembers the saints of North America on this day. Saints of all times, and in every country are […]

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Pastoral Letter from His Eminence Metropolitan JOSEPH on the Feast of All Saints

June 11, 2020 By Father Timothy

THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 2020 Download His Eminence’s letter June 8, 2020 Beloved Faithful in Christ, Greetings and blessings to you and your families in the Name of our Great God and Savior, Jesus Christ! As we wrote in our pastoral letter for Pentecost, these holiest of days have been difficult and heartrending. We have experienced […]

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“I am with You”

May 29, 2020 By Father Timothy

Priest Dimitry Vydumkin The Ascension of the Lord. VIII-IX century. Monastery of Saint Catherine’s Monastery of the God-Trodden Mount Sinai. The event of the Ascension of the Lord is described in detail only by Luke the Evangelist. Matthew the Apostle and John the Evangelist do not mention it at all, and Mark the Evangelist describes […]

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What’s Wrong with Inter-communion?

April 27, 2020 By Father Timothy

Fr. Lawrence Farley Photo: brooklyn-church.org Like many, I was more than a little surprised to see an American Orthodox archbishop of prominence suggest that inter-communion is a good idea—i.e. that an Orthodox priest should give Holy Communion to a non-Orthodox person. Admittedly he was not suggesting indiscriminate inter-communion and giving the Eucharist to anyone showing […]

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How the Grinch Stole Pascha

April 22, 2020 By Father Timothy

Fr. Lawrence Farley The year 2020 will be remembered by Orthodox as the year without Pascha. At the beginning of the year, and even at the beginning of Great Lent, it hardly seemed possible. I remember the second Sunday of Great Lent here at St. Herman’s. We had served the Liturgy of St. Basil and […]

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Chattaroy, WA 99003 (near Spokane)

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  • Home
  • About Us
    ▼
    • Welcome!
    • First Visit
    • Directions
    • History
    • Catechumen
    • Leadership
    • Resources
    • Photos of Parish Life
  • Services
  • News
    ▼
    • Parish News
      ▼
      • Pastoral Letter from His Eminence Metropolitan JOSEPH on the Feast of All Saints
      • Holy Synod issues Statement on Coronavirus outbreak
      • The Paschal Message of His Eminence, Archbishop Benjamin 2020
      • Further Update on the Coronavirus from His Eminence
      • Archpriest John Anderson
      • Great Blessing of Waters in Spokane, WA
      • Archbishop Benjamin Visits Whitworth University
      • Baby Elijah Baptized
      • Saint Nicholas Visit
    • Articles
      ▼
      • Synaxis of the Saints of North America
      • Open Letter to The Honourable Gavin Newsom, Governor of California
      • “I am with You”
      • What’s Wrong with Inter-communion?
      • How the Grinch Stole Pascha
      • What to Do if a Confessed Sin Continues to Bother Your Conscience
  • Calendar
  • Contact