Take the Kids to Church…
Based on new studies conducted by Baylor University, children from more religious families and from families with higher rates of religious attendance are better behaved and more well adjusted at home and at school. Better educated people generally had parents who attended church services twice or more a month. Among people with graduate level educations, two-thirds had mothers who were from frequent church attendees, compared to just under half of people with only a high school education. The difference is just as significant [Read more...]
The Grace of Just Showing Up
by Fr. Stephen Freeman From the blog Glory to God for All Things. There has been a tendency in much teaching about the notion of salvation by grace to ground the image in a legal or forensic metaphor. Thus, we are saved by grace in the sense that someone else’s goodwill and kindness (God’s) has now freed us from the consequences of our actions. Thus we speak of grace as the “free gift” of God. There is no denying that grace is a [Read more...]
Children In Church
by Bishop Alexander (Mileant) As our motto at St. George is “if you want to raise children in the Church, they have to be IN THE CHURCH!” I saw this article and thought it was worth reposting. Every Christian mother considers it one of her primary obligations to teach her child prayer as soon as his consciousness awakens — prayer that is simple and easy for him to understand. His soul must be accustomed to the warm and fervent experience of prayer [Read more...]
Pat. Kirill Suggests Measures To Decrease Abortions
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia sent Russian authorities suggestions how to improve national policy on family and childhood. As to opposing abortions, the Patriarch urged to accept departmental instruction of the Ministry of Health and Social Development “that makes preservation of pregnancy a priority task for the doctor and bans medical initiatives on its interruption,” official website of the Moscow Patriarchate reports. The Primate urged to introduce in medical practice a compulsory two-week period of waiting after “informed consent” – a [Read more...]
700 Children Baptized In One Service in Georgia
700 Children are baptized during a mass baptism ceremony in the town of Mtskheta outside Tbilisi, July 13, 2010. About 700 children were baptized by the Georgian Orthodox church during the 12th mass baptism ceremony led by Patriarch Ilia II. Georgia had a big declining birth rate until Patriarch Iliya said he would personally bless each baby, so now the birthrate is increasing and they are getting blessings and baptisms from the Patriarch! That’s a missionary spirit. God bless the Church in [Read more...]
