Year: 2015

Source: Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese

The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America will send a delegation to the annual March for Life, Thursday, January 22, 2015 in Washington, DC. The date marks the 42nd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.

Metropolitan Methodios will lead the delegation. He will be joined by Metropolitan Tikhon, Bishop Michael, and Bishop Demetrios Mokissos. Metropolitan Tikhon will deliver the invocation at the annual Rose Dinner at the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Washington DC on the evening of the 22nd. On the evening before the March, Metropolitan Methodios will attend the National Prayer Vigil for Life at The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC.

The rally begins at noon on the National Mall at 12th Street. Orthodox Christian marchers will gather to the right of the stage under the “Orthodox Christians for Life” banner and signs. The march begins at 1 PM and processes down Constitution Avenue to the US Supreme Court, where prayers for the victims of abortion will be offered.

When we suffer wounds, especially traumatic wounds (fired from a job, a divorce, loss of a loved one, abuse, etc.) God can bring healing.

Healing takes time and often the most healing comes through others who have suffered the same kind of wounding.

Wounding changes us however. It leaves scars.

But scars are not wounds. Scars are what remain when the wounds heal.

Don’t pick at the scar. You will cause another wound, but that new wound will be different than the wound that caused the scar.

Instead accept the change that the wounding imposed.

Do this and the future opens again, albeit in a new way.

God heals the wounded, but He works with the scarred.

It’s unfortunate but true: Sometimes priests are treated unfairly and the results can be financially catastrophic.

A friend of mine, a solid priest with a great track record and no hint of scandal, untoward behavior or anything else that warrants the kind of treatment he is receiving, is undergoing some grave difficulty at the moment.

I want to raise $1,000 to help him through his current distress. I need to keep his name private to protect his dignity.

You might ask:

• Why doesn’t the Church help him out? It will if you help.
• Why don’t his fellow priests help him out? That is what I am trying to do here.
• Why doesn’t his bishop help him out? That answer is known only to God.

I wish it were different but unfortunately it isn’t.

Can you help?

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Thank you very much.

Fr. Hans Jacobse