Fr. James Bernstein's New Book

Fr. James Bernstein of St. Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church in Brier, WA has pubished a new book titled "Surprised by Christ: My Journey from Judaism to Orthodox Christianity." It is available from Conciliar Press, Barnes and Nobel, and Amazon. For more information about the book, visit www.surprisedbychrist.com/

"Surprised by Christ is an autobiography, an intellectual history, and a conversion story, and more than these, conveys a spiritual and theological vision in a message that touches people from many different backgrounds. That vision is of the Living God revealed in Jesus Christ, who is the fulfillment of the Old Covenant, the life of the Faithful, the hope of the despairing, and the motivation for those who strive to preach the Gospel in all its integrity."
-- Hieromonk Jonah (Paffhausen), Abbot of St. John of San Francisco Monastery in Manton, California

June, July, and August Services

June 27 & 28; July 11-12, and 25-26. August 8-9 and 22-23

Vespers 6:30 PM., Friday evening in the Library of St Joseph's Catholic Church.

(Use main entrance)

Divine Liturgy is at 9:00 AM., Saturday Morning, in the Choir Room.

(Use entrance on south side of St. Joseph's church)

You can always check our schedule on the calendar. Click here.

Interview about new book by Fr. James Berstein on Ancient Faith Radio

NEW Fr. James' Interview on Ancient Faith Radio
On The Illumined Heart podcast from Ancient Faith Radio, Kevin talks to Fr. James Bernstein about his journey from Judaism to Orthodox Christianity! Available for download this coming Friday May 23. For a preview of the interview click here: http://ancientfaith.com/announcements/suprised_by_christ/

June Services

June 6th & 7th; and 20th & 21st

Vespers 6:30 PM., Friday evening in the Library of St Joseph's Catholic Church.

Divine Liturgy is at 9:00 AM., Saturday Morning, in the Choir Room.

(Use entrance on south side of St. Joseph's church)

You can always check our schedule on the calendar. Click here.

May Services

May 2nd & 3rd; and 16th & 17th

Vespers 6:30 PM., Friday evening in the Library of St Joseph's Catholic Church.

Divine Liturgy is at 9:00 AM., Saturday Morning, in the Choir Room.

(Use entrance on south side of St. Joseph's church)

You can always check our schedule on the calendar. Click here.

April Services

April 4th & 5th; and 18th & 19th

Vespers 6:30 PM., Friday evening in the Library of St Joseph's Catholic Church.

Divine Liturgy is at 9:00 AM., Saturday Morning, in the Choir Room.

(Use entrance on south side of St. Joseph's church)

You can always check our schedule on the calendar. Click here.

*REMINDER*
March 22, 2008

Members of Wenatchee Mission meet with Bishop Joseph at Christ the Savior Orthodox Mission Church, Spokane Valley.

Saint John Chrysostom Concerning The Fast

The value of fasting consists not in the abstinence only from food, but in a relinquishment of sinful practices, since he who limits his fasting only to an abstinence from meat is he who especially disparages it. Do you fast? Give me proof of it by your works. If you see a poor man, take pity on him! If you see a friend enjoying honor, do not envy him. for let not the mouth only fast, but also the eye, and the ear, and the feet, and the hands, and all the members of our bodies. Let the hands fast by being pure of avarice. Let the feet fast by ceasing from running to forbidden spectacles. Let the eyes fast by being taught never to fix themselves rudely upon handsome countenances. For looking is the food of the eyes, but if it be unlawful or forbidden it mars the fast and overturns the safety of the soul; but if it be lawful and safe, it adorns fasting. For it would be an instance of the highest absurdity to abstain from meats and unlawful food because of the fast, but with the eyes to feed on what is forbidden. Do you not eat flesh? Do not feed on licentiousness by means of the eyes. Let the ear fast also. The fasting of the ear is not to receive evil speaking and calumnies. 'You shall not receive an idle report,' it says. Let also the mouth fast from foul words. For what does it profit if we abstain from birds and fish, and bite and devour our brethren?

—Saint John Chrysostom, Lenten Homily