A multi-cultural parish of the Canadian Archdiocese of the Orthodox Church in America under His Grace, Archbishop Irenee. Weekly services: *Divine Liturgy every Sunday at 10 a.m., sometimes preceded by Matins or by reading of the Third and Sixth Hours *Great Vespers each Saturday, 7 p.m. We also have special services to celebrate the Great Feasts of the Church. (Contact us […]
Read MoreThis Sunday marks the beginning of the Lenten Triodion, that group of Sundays preceding Great Lent. Each Sunday from now until Pascha has special significance in our spiritual preparation. You will find the schedule for services offered here at Holy Trinity on the calendar below. Please consider joining us during this very meaningful ‘season’.
Read More“This is my opinion too,” said my teacher. “I also think that the measure of pain is proportional to the quantity of evil in each person. For it is not likely that the one who has gone far in forbidden evils and the one who has fallen into moderate transgressions will be distressed equally as […]
Read MoreOf all the things people hold dear, none is necessary: not talents, not successes, not accomplishments. All these are imaginary riches for oneself. There is one fortune and joy that God grants equally to every person: one’s own life, created in God, and a heart capable of loving and of rejoicing in love. Spiritual Diary, […]
Read MoreThe truth about this is stored up in the hidden treasury of wisdom and will be disclosed at the time when we are taught the mystery of the resurrection in deed, when we will no longer need words to reveal what we hope for. If at night wakeful people discuss at length what the light […]
Read MoreAccording to Gregory … evil has no substantive existence, but arises from the act of the will in refusing the good and deliberately turning away from light…. But the discord arising from evil cannot finally defeat God’s purpose. God must eventually be “all in all.” The purpose of the Incarnation is to restore all created […]
Read MoreIf you have something above your daily needs, give it to the poor, and then go with boldness to offer your prayers, that is, to converse with God as a son with his Father. Nothing can bring the heart so near to God as almsgiving, and nothing brings such serenity to the mind as voluntary […]
Read MoreHe sighed again and for several seconds merely gazed in silence at the softly shining water. “Belief is such a slippery concept among humans. So often your kind professes beliefs that your actions belie. I scarcely know what the word means to you. All I know is that my instincts incline me in that direction […]
Read MoreFor the earliest and greatest of the church fathers in general, the story of salvation was really quite uncomplicated: We were born in bondage, in the house of a cruel master to whom we had been sold as slaves before we could choose for ourselves; we were born, moreover, not guilty or damnable in God’s […]
Read MoreThe most effective technique for subduing the moral imagination is to teach it to mistake the contradictory for the paradoxical, and thereby to accept incoherence as profundity, or moral idiocy as spiritual subtlety. If this can be accomplished with sufficient nuance and delicacy, it can sustain even a very powerful intellect for an entire lifetime. […]
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Michael Bremner
June 13, 2016
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