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When Does 7 Times 7 Equal 40?

Is Great Lent really 40 days long?

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Father Mark SietsemaFebruary 22, 2025
To Brush or Not To Brush?

Does fasting for Communion preclude oral hygiene? If you think so, please read this piece.

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Father Mark SietsemaFebruary 22, 2025
Let’s Make a Fast Deal

Here’s a way to improve your eating habits, even if you don’t want to try lenten fasting.

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Father Mark SietsemaFebruary 22, 2025
Lent 2.0

Some ideas for upgrading your Lenten experience.

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Father Mark SietsemaFebruary 22, 2025
Never on a Sunday? ... Or Always?

How often should a person receive Holy Communion?  This is a matter of tremendous interest for parishioners who watch the Communion line.

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Father Mark SietsemaFebruary 22, 2025
On Digging Your Own Grave

With a knife, spoon, and fork we put ourselves six feet under quickly.

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Father Mark SietsemaFebruary 22, 2025
Who are You to Judge Another Man's Servant?
Father Mark SietsemaFebruary 22, 2025
Lent is Simple: We Fast from Food

Why do we make it any more complicated than that?

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Father Mark SietsemaFebruary 22, 2025
Don't You Give up Anything for Lent!!

Thinking about giving up something for Lent? Not with that attitude!

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Father Mark SietsemaFebruary 22, 2025
“Give Glory to God!”

What is Confession in the Orthodox Church all about?

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Father Mark SietsemaFebruary 15, 2022
What Mom Least Wants to See

What does the Orthodox Church say about tattoos and piercings?

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Father Mark SietsemaFebruary 2, 2022
Sheep Smarts

The goal of a spiritual father is for you not to have the wool pulled over your eyes!

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Holy Trinity GOC LansingDecember 22, 2020
Snake-bitten

Christmas was the miracle medicine the world was waiting for.

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Father Mark SietsemaDecember 18, 2020
Become Bethlehem

I identify as a cattle-shed.

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Father Mark SietsemaDecember 18, 2020
Good King Wenceslas

Who was that good king of which we every Christmas sing?

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Father Mark SietsemaDecember 18, 2020
The Christmas Truce

For just a little while in the Great War, all was calm, all was bright …

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Father Mark SietsemaDecember 18, 2020
There Was No Inn in the Room

What every Sunday School Christmas pageant gets wrong.

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Father Mark SietsemaDecember 18, 2020
Those Friendly Beasts

Was the donkey there to keep time?

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Father Mark SietsemaDecember 18, 2020
Westward Leading, Still Proceeding?

What was the “Star of wonder” that the Magi followed?

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Father Mark SietsemaDecember 18, 2020
It’s Beginning to Sound a Lot Like Xmas …

A suggestion for your homebound Christmas this year … learn all the verses to the carols!

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Father Mark SietsemaDecember 15, 2020
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