by alex-focus | Mar 27, 2020 | 40 days with FOCUS
Fr. David Wooten It’s well known that the early church document The Shepherd of Hermas exhorts those who are fasting to take the money they normally would spend on food and give it to the poor. Our faithful embodied this virtue by organizing a lay-led...
by alex-focus | Mar 13, 2020 | 40 days with FOCUS
Fr John A. Jillions When I was 17 or so I was in a car being driven by a Protestant high-school friend who already knew he wanted to be a pastor. I wasn’t inclined that way at all, though I did like going to my Orthodox church, singing in the choir and...
by alex-focus | Mar 5, 2020 | 40 days with FOCUS
This Lent on our blog we are highlighting the voices of our clergy! Each author of this year’s “40 Days with FOCUS” blog series have first-hand experience praying, giving, and serving with FOCUS. We are so thankful to be a part of the greater...
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...
