About this blog

Welcome to the orthodoxkansas.org blog. This blog is authored by the clergy of the Kansas Deanery of the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America. The administrators hope the blog will be used for both spiritually edifying posts (whether original or from patristic sources) and parish announcements.

St. Basil, Kansas City to consecrate Holy Table

All Saints Orthodox Church 16th Annual Vineyard Blessing

All Saints Orthodox Church’s 16th annual Vineyard Blessing
will take place Saturday, August 21st 2010 at the
Smoky Hill Vineyards and Winery

Blessing of the Vineyard: 5:00pm

Authentic Greek Dinner: 6:00pm

Please order tickets in advance: seating is limited!

Adults – $20.00 or two for $37.00.

Children 10 yrs and under – $10.00

For Credit Card orders, [...]

St. Vladimir’s Seminary Octet in Kansas

In addition to the previously scheduled events at Holy Trinity, Overland Park; St. Mary, Wichita, and St. George Cathedral, Wichita, the Octet will join Fr. Chad Hatfield, Chancellor of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, and founding priest of both All Saints, Salina and St. Mary Magdalene, Manhattan, in celebrating a Divine Liturgy at St. Mary [...]

St. Justin of Celije

Several years ago, at the Lenten Men’s Retreat organized by St. George Cathedral, Sayedna BASIL led us in considering the life and writings of Archimandrite Justin Popovich.  The Holy Synod of the Church of Serbia has finally gotten around to formally declaring St. Justin’s glorification.  His feast day is 1 June.  I commend to all [...]

Patronal Feast Celebration at Three Hierarchs

The faithful of Three Hierarchs in Garden City will celebrate the patronal feast during the weekend of January 29-31. Here is the schedule of events:

Friday, January 29, 3:30 PM–Akathist Service
Saturday, January 30, 9:00 AM–Orthros, followed by Divine Liturgy for the feast
Saturday, January 30, 5:30 PM–9th Hour and Great Vespers
Sunday, January 31, 9:00 AM–Orthros
[...]

January News from St. Mary Magdalene

Christ is in our midst!

This Wednesday the Church commemorates Holy Theophany–the revelation of God as the All-Holy Trinity given at Our Lord’s Baptism in the Jordan.

The day before, Tuesday, 5 January, at 9 a.m., we will serve the Royal Hours of Theophany (appointed for the Vigil) and, at 6 p.m. Readers’ Great Vespers.

The season from [...]

Upcoming events at St. Mary Magdalene, Manhattan

This Friday, 13 November, beginning at about 5 p.m. Fr. Joseph will be at St. Mary Magdalene House, 913 Riley Lane to hear confessions. At 6 p.m. we will serve Small Compline.

Our 9:30 a.m. Saturday Divine Liturgy for 14 November will commemorate the Holy Apostle Philip.

The Nativity Fast begins on Sunday 15 November. [...]

St. Jacob of Hamatoura (October 13)

Two thirds of the Orthodox Christian parishes and missions in Kansas are under the omophorion of Bishop +BASIL of Wichita, and as such are part of the ancient Patriarchate of Antioch. We are generally familiar with the lives of the ancient martyrs who suffered under Roman persecution, and perhaps of the New Martyrs of [...]

World Food Day 2009 at Three Hierarchs

This letter was sent to the members and friends of Three Hierarchs Mission, Garden City, KS

Dearly Beloved in the Lord,

Please note that October 16 is designated World Food Day, sponsored by the national Committee for World Food Day. Our Antiochian Archdiocese is one of 456 sponsoring organizations throught the United States and 163 countries [...]

St. George Cathedral’s 76th Annual Lebanese Dinner, Oct. 10 and 11

St. George Cathedral will be hosting its 76th Annual Lebanese Dinner October 10th and 11th at 7515 East 13th Street. The public dinner will open its doors at 4:00 p.m. – 8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 10 and 12:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 11.

The plate dinner includes Kibba, Stuffed [...]

SS. Peter and Paul, Topeka, 5th Annual Ethnic Food Festival, Sat. Oct. 10, 11-3

SS Peter & Paul Orthodox Christian Church is pleased to announce our 5th Annual Ethnic Food Festival, Saturday October 10, 2009 11:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M.

Featuring traditional culinary favorites from Greece and Lebanon, including:

* Gyros – Grilled seasoned thinly-sliced lamb, wrapped in warm pita bread and garnished with tomatoes, onions and [...]

Notes from Three Hierarchs

October 6, 2009

Three Hierarchs Orthodox Christian Church

2009 North Main St.

Garden City, KS 67846

620-271-0811

Food for Hungry People: Our Handmaidens Group, under the leadership of Zoe McCallum, will conduct our on-going collection of canned goods and non-perishable items to be contributed regularly to the Emaeus House here in Garden City. During Great Lent, of course, the archdiocese [...]

On Self-Esteem

Seven of the vices discussed in St. John Cassian’s On the Eight Vices are familiar to most Americans as “the Seven Deadly Sins”. The seventh in his list of eight is taught as a virtue in our schools. Here are St. John Cassian’s remarks

ON SELF-ESTEEM

Our seventh struggle is against the demon of [...]

A thought for the New Year

A brother asked Abba Sisoes, “Did Satan pursue them like this in the early days?” The old man said to him, “He does this more at the present time, because his time is nearly finished and he is enraged.”

Prayer XXII from St. Nikolai Velimirovich’s Prayers by the Lake

O Only Son of God, receive me into Your wisdom. You are the head of all the sons of men. You are their heavenly comprehension, illumination and jubilation.

You are the One who thinks the same goodness in all men: the same thought and the same light. A man recognizes another man through You. A man [...]

Upcoming events at St. Mary Magdalene, Manhattan

Tomorrow evening (12 August) at 6 p.m. we will again offer the Small Paraclesis as a Readers’ Service.

On Friday (14 August) at 6 p.m. we will offer Readers’ Great Vespers for the Dormition of the Theotokos.

This Saturday’s 9:30 Divine Liturgy will be the Festal Divine Liturgy for the Dormition of the Theotokos.

Our catechism class is [...]

A note on ease of posting

The Homily on the Transfiguration posted a few minutes before this had been included by Fr. Daniel Griffith in the August 2007 edition of The Cloud of Witnesses. To post it here, I copied and pasted the text from the MSWord file of The Cloud, removed line breaks from the title, cut and pasted [...]

A Homily on the Transfiguration by St. Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica

For an explanation of the present Feast & understanding of its truth, it is necessary for us to turn to the very start of today’s reading from the Gospel: “Now after 6 days Jesus took Peter, James & John, his brother, & led them up onto a high mountain by themselves” (Mt 17:1).
First of all [...]

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