Reflections on Marriage
Having become Orthodox in the course of our marriage, Jim and I were blessed with the sacrament of marriage on September 10, 1995, at the Church of St. Nicholas of Myra in Amsterdam. After the ceremony I spoke with several women, all of them non-Orthodox, who had had quite some difficulty with part of the wedding service. The part that caused the problems was the reading from St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians. I was concerned that the people who had difficulty with this passage would let it overshadow all the things that they found good and beautiful about the wedding service and about Orthodoxy in general. So I decided to write a brief letter to them to try to address some of these problems.
Out of the Darkness
The voice of Marika Cico Despite the extreme religious repression that reigned in Albania for so many years, thousands of people lived... Read More
Only With Love
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A Long Honeymoon
Father Luke and Faith Veronis Father Luke Veronis arrived in Albania in January 1994. He and Faith married the following August, a... Read More
A Candle in Front of the Savior – The voice of Archbishop Anastasios
The voice of Archbishop Anastasios Archbishop Anastasios has a white beard and moustache. His hair is silver. His glasses have tortoise-shell frames... Read More
Purity of Heart: an essential for peacemaking
by Albert S. Rossi Purity of heart may contain a key to a personal position on the issue of war and peace,... Read More
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Conversations by E-mail
These are extracts from recent postings to the OPF's e-mail discussion list. If you are an OPF member and wish to take... Read More
News Reports
Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope John Paul meet in Rome Pope John Paul II and Patriarch Bartholomew met in Rome in late June... Read More

