Holy week is finally here amigos. This Holy Week, I want to urge you to take the time that you need to fully immerse yourself and partake even a little bit into the splendor of Christ’s Resurrection. There’s always time to start getting ready and to engage! The spiritual father of the Champaign OCF, Fr. […]
Every Holy Thursday we are faced with a task that isn’t as easy as the other Holy Week services. The task that I am talking about is the reading of the twelve Gospels. That’s right, there are twelve. But on top of that you also have twelve epistles and twelve prayers before the Gospel. Many […]
This year, I attended my first OCF retreat at St. Methodios Faith & Heritage Center in New Hampshire. I went along with 25 other college students from the Northeast region of the United States. The retreat was held on a day that was brisk but not to the point where we were freezing. We lit fires […]
I know…a bunch of you are ready to fight me for such a bold and biased title. I would say they paid me to write this, but being part of the SLB is entirely voluntary. Just hear me out, and afterward you are welcome to write Ben a counter-argument. 1) You finally get to […]
I couldn’t be more blessed with my parish here in Chicago. There are tons of Orthodox churches all across the city. I know that different students from different OCFs way across the city go to different churches, but I’ve been fortunate enough to find the one in which I feel both comfortable and pushed to […]
I remember when I was going on college visits with my dad, we would be sitting in info sessions, and no matter where we were, he would look on his phone to see where the nearest Greek Orthodox Church was. I always rolled my eyes at him. The Orthodox Church played a big role in […]
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