GOA Center for Family Care Update
July 14, 2023 What's New This Week It's time to Soak Up the Son! This week we learn about what happened when God created the air and sea creatures! To download the full family activity guide click here. Dr. Sofie Azmy, clinical psychologist and clergy wife, offers suggestions for reframing our parenting role and relationship [...]
Department of Inter-Orthodox, Ecumenical, and Interfaith Relations: Summer Newsletter
Summer 2023 Visit our Website Dear Friends and Colleagues, Happy Summer! As we find ourselves in the midst of this beautiful season, I pray that all has been well, and the summer months provide ample time for rest and relaxation. The Department has been extremely busy in its ecumenical endeavors! Of note, the 101st meeting of [...]
Last Night’s Soup Run
Photos: https://www.facebook.com/PhiloNewRo/ Our monthly mission to serve the street homeless and the Ecuadorian and Venezuelan migrants continued during last night’s Soup Run and it was a beautiful evening for all. The increasingly poor air quality due to the Canadian wildfires didn’t stop our volunteers or those in need from meeting up on 31st Street in [...]
Read the Latest Philoxenia Times!
This is the remarkable inner city ministry to the poor that grew from a Mission & Outreach Committee created in 2008 at Holy Trinity in New Rochelle to become a vibrant, endowed, and ecumenically sponsored service under the inspired leadership of a few devoted Greek Orthodox women. Despina Kartson spoke at our church several years [...]
Managing our Tech Before It Manages Us
June 9, 2023 What's New This Week It's time to Soak Up the Son! Join us this summer as we explore the beauty of God's creation. This week we talk about God's first created beings...angels! To download the family activity guide for week one click here. Dr. Randa Anderson explains how we are entranced, even addicted, [...]
George Paparis & Daphne Hartch Were Honored
The Parish Council conducted a secret ballot to nominate 1 older member and 1 young adult per instruction from the District, and then agreed through a strong consensus on both. As an annual award, there will be more opportunities in the future to nominate others. George Paparis and Daphne Hartch were honored at a District Leadership Banquet [...]
Celebrating Birthday in Orthodox Christian Monastery: the Monks and Nuns of New Skete (Cambridge, NY)
I treasure the opportunity, since moving back East, to reconnect with this remarkable and unique Orthodox monastic community that includes both men and women. Their sheer humanity, as beautifully described by Fr. Michael Plekon in his book Hidden Holiness, is so easily discernible from the moment anyone arrives. Following upon groups I’ve lead in the past, [...]
Ideologies of War and Theologies of Healing
Follow this link to watch an outstanding conference “Ideologies of War and Theologies of Healing: Ukraine one year later” in Chicago from earlier this year, sponsored by Lumen Christi, a Roman Catholic institute: https://www.lumenchristi.org/event/2023/02/war-ukraine-borys-gudziak A panel of four theologians and scholars offer captivating testimony and commentary to help us better understand why this war has been [...]