Archpriest Victor Potapov
The parable of the sower, the first of Christ's parables in time, is a prophecy of how mankind accepts the Gospel is good tidings in different ways, and how this Gospel acts differently on them, depending on the condition of their souls.
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All the children are doing it, and we know how hard it is to get our children to swim upstream and ignore the heathenish customs of their peers. Rather than make light of this problem, we decided to ask some Orthodox priests in the United States who have to deal with this every year what they say to their own children and other families about Halloween.
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Fr. Lawrence Farley
Our Lord’s parable of Lazarus and the rich man is unique among the parables, for in this parable alone one of the characters has a name.
Fr. Stephen Freeman
People, including children, make sense of the world through the stories they know. Children without stories are forced to stumble through the world without a clue.This is not only true of children, but of people in general.
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Father Thomas, a German raised as Lutheran, converted to Orthodoxy from Catholicism. He will tell us about the driving force behind his spiritual quests and the importance of dedicated insistence upon the Truth. We will also learn the answers to such questions as “Should we say in conversations with members of other denominations that their teachings are heretical?” and “What should our attitude be toward the Branch Theory?”
