St. Luke Orthodox Christian Church

Orthodox Christianity in Spokane, WA

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ADVICE TO THE CONFUSED

March 29, 2019 By Father Timothy

Fr. Lawrence Farley I suppose that most pastors have had the experience of a young parishioner approaching them privately and confiding in them their suspicion or decision that they were gay, bisexual, or transgender. Such confusion is in the air, has the Nihil Obstat of both secular culture and governmental sanction, and also bestows a kind of […]

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OCMC News – Remembering Missionary Charita “Mama” Stavrou

March 25, 2019 By Father Timothy

by Caitlyn Sargent (Posted 4/3/2018) Charita Stavrou who fell asleep in the Lord on March 24th, 2018, dedicated her life to Orthodox missions. She made vestments and ministered to hundreds of people in six African countries. May her memory be eternal! Charita Stavrou passed from this life early Saturday, March 24th, 2018, after battling cancer. Mrs. […]

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Traditio Deformis

March 22, 2019 By Father Timothy

David Bentley Hart 2015 The long history of defective Christian scriptural exegesis occasioned by problematic translations is a luxuriant one, and its riches are too numerous and exquisitely various adequately to classify. But I think one can arrange most of them along a single continuum in four broad divisions: some misreadings are caused by a […]

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Repentance

March 18, 2019 By Father Timothy

by St. John Climacus “Repentance is the renewal of Baptism. Repentance is a contract with God for a second life… Repentance is a constant distrust of bodily comfort… Repentance is the daughter of hope and the renunciation of despair. Repentance is reconciliation with the Lord by practice of good deeds contrary to the sins. Repentance […]

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Remembering Protopresbyter Thomas Hopko

March 18, 2019 By Father Timothy

SYOSSET, NY [OCA] Today—March 18, 2019—marks the fourth anniversary of the repose of Protopresbyter Thomas Hopko, Dean Emeritus of Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, Yonkers, NY, and noted Orthodox Christian priest, theologian, preacher, and speaker. Father Thomas was the beloved husband of Matushka Anne [Schmemann] Hopko, whom he married on June 9, 1963. They are the […]

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Why They Hate Us

February 12, 2019 By Father Timothy

Frederica Mathewes-Green [Eighth Day Institute, Feb 2019] Back in my college days, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I was a hippie and a spiritual seeker. The range of spiritual options on campus was broad, and I sampled a bit of everything: Ananda Marga Hinduism, Zen Buddhism, Hare Krishna, Transcendental Meditation. I say I was a […]

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Archbishop Benjamin Visits Soon!

January 31, 2019 By Father Timothy

The Most Reverend Benjamin Archbishop of San Francisco and the West Archbishop Benjamin was born in 1954 and was baptized and chrismated at Holy Virgin Mary Cathedral, Los Angeles, CA on April 27, 1972.  In 1982, he was awarded a Master of Divinity degree and Certificate in Liturgical Music from Saint Vladimir Seminary. A prolific […]

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Holy Synod of Bishops issues Archpastoral Letter on Ukraine

January 29, 2019 By Father Timothy

SYOSSET, NY [OCA] On Monday, January 28, 2019, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon and the members of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America issued an Archpastoral Letter concerning the situation of the Church in Ukraine and related matters, as decided during the Fall Session of the Holy Synod held October 23-25, 2018. The complete text […]

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Spiritual Morsels

January 25, 2019 By Father Timothy

put together by Fr. Paul Jaroslaw from Prophet Elijah Antiochian Orthodox Mission in Ellensburg, WA If we do commit some sin again, we should without delay ask forgiveness once again, and the Lord will forgive us, for He came not to save the righteous but the sinners, i.e., those who acknowledge their sins. Abbot Nikon […]

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PATRIARCH DANIEL: REPENTANCE IS A CHANGE, NOT A SIMPLE REGRET

January 24, 2019 By Father Timothy

source: Basilica News Agency January 14, 2019 ‘Repentance is an effort for inner change, not a simple regret,’ His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel said in his Sunday homily at St Gregory the Enlightener Chapel of his Patriarchal Residence. His Beatitude noted that repentance does not simply imply saying ‘I’m sorry’ and moving on, ‘it is an effort […]

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