Sundays are my favorite days. I love the beautiful mixture of worship and rest, of reflection and preparation. When I was in college I would basically spend the entire day either in church worshiping or in bed napping. Now that I am married and have children, however, things have changed a bit…. Here are aRead More
Ways to Celebrate the Feast of the Elevation of the Cross
This week we will celebrate one of the 12 major feasts of the Church year! The feast of the Elevation of the Life-Giving Cross is celebrated very early in the Church year on September 14. In this feast we celebrate both the power of the Cross and Christ’s crucifixion in our salvation and the findingRead More
50 Times to Say the Jesus Prayer
Lately I’ve been thinking about habits. Specifically, trigger habits. A trigger habit is something that you do that automatically triggers a certain response. The trigger could be a time of day, a particular setting, an action, etc. For example: -You get into the car…..and you buckle your seat belt. -You wake up in theRead More
Ways to Celebrate the Feast of the Dormition
On August 15 the Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates its final major feast of the Church year–the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos. When my husband and I were in the process of converting, I literally had no idea of what those words meant! The word Dormition means “falling asleep,” or in other words, theRead More
The 5 Best Books I Read This Summer
One of the best parts of the summer for me, as a teacher, is getting to spend afternoons (and mornings and nights….) lazily reading a good book. This summer we’ve been on an “epic family road trip” from Boston to Colorado and then down to Texas and Oklahoma to stay with family. So, I haveRead More
