by alex-focus | Apr 14, 2019 | 40 days with FOCUS
Very little is known about the early life of Saint Mary of Egypt, except that she was stripped of her innocence at the tender age of twelve. Over the next seventeen years, after having run away from her childhood home, she lived in a type of spiritual slavery to her...
by alex-focus | Apr 8, 2019 | 40 days with FOCUS
So much of my personal journey in Orthodoxy has been a growing understanding of the Body of Christ, including the interconnectedness I have with each person around me as a fellow human created in God’s image. Equally part of this journey has been my study of Saint...
by alex-focus | Mar 31, 2019 | 40 days with FOCUS, YES
Great Lent is a crucial journey and a treasured gift. It’s this extended, intensified period of time that reflects what can actually happen in a day, a minute…a moment. We are always living and making choices, always experiencing places of suffering and death in our...
by alex-focus | Mar 30, 2019 | YES
“We talk about experiencing the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, but how often are we actually blessed to experience it? The YES Leadership Conference was a taste of the Kingdom of Heaven. I have never experienced such a loving community of wonderful individuals, of...
by alex-focus | Mar 27, 2019 | St. Herman House - FOCUS Cleveland
In early March, we said goodbye to a dear friend and former resident, Anthony Faulisi. Anthony had lived at St. Herman’s in 2010, and in our transitional house in 2016-2017. He was a parishioner at St. Albert the Great in North Royalton. He had studied at seminary and...
