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<\/a>The Unmercenary Physicians
Sts. Hermione, Philonella & Zenaida<\/p><\/div>\n
The Orthodox Women in the Healing Ministries<\/a> organization is holding its 16th Annual Conference Oct. 2-4 at the Dormition of the Mother of God Monastery<\/a> in Rives Junction, Mich.<\/p>\n The theme of the conference is “Secular vs. Sacred” and will be led by AOI’s Fr. Johannes L. Jacobse. Key insights to be discussed at the conference:<\/p>\n \n— When God created the world, He spoke it into existence. God said “Let — God still speaks today. And God’s word today is just as powerful but it — Man is created to hear God’s word. And when it is heard, Christ is — Christ is the Truth. Those who hear His Word, who receive the Gospel with — Salvation takes place in the circumstances and events of life everyday — <\/p>\n Location:<\/strong><\/p>\n Holy Dormition Monastery Program:<\/strong><\/p>\n Friday evening session Saturday, Afternoon sessions, Sunday, 10:00 am Liturgy<\/p>\n Friday, October 2nd 4:00 p.m. Conference Registration\/Networking Saturday, October 3rd<\/p>\n 6:30 a.m. Matins, Hours, Akathist Sunday, October 4th<\/p>\n 9:00 a.m. Akathist, Hours Fees:<\/strong><\/p>\n $175.00 includes all sessions, room and meals The Holy Dormition Monastery has 20 beds available in their guest house. The Sisters of Holy Dormition Monastery have daily prayers, (Hours of the The Monastery is located on many acres of woodlands and gardens. We are For more information about registration please visit this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n OWHM contact information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Orthodox Women in the Healing Ministries was founded in 1992 with the From the inception of OWHM, the founders have defined all women as persons Our primary means of providing support is by sponsoring an annual three day Some of our past speakers have included Archimadrite Roman Braga, Abbot We have had many requests from men, from various walks of life to attend our About the speaker:<\/strong><\/p>\n Fr. Johannes Jacobse always had a keen eye for politics and culture and Fr. Hans studied history and humanities at the University of Minnesota. \u201cI could tell that this man\u2019s reading of our cultural decline was so Fr. Hans edits the website Orthodoxy Today<\/a> that discusses social and moral The success of Orthodoxy Today led to the founding of the American Orthodox Fr. Hans is convinced that Orthodox Christianity has an important role to Any proper analysis of who we are and where we are going requires a recovery His editorials and essays have been published in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Fr. Hans has been a priest for more than twenty years. He has a B.A. from The Orthodox Women in the Healing Ministries organization is holding its 16th Annual Conference Oct. 2-4 at the Dormition of the Mother of God Monastery in Rives Junction, Mich. The theme of the conference is “Secular vs. Sacred” and will be led by AOI’s Fr. Johannes L. Jacobse. Key insights to be discussed at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1784],"tags":[945,160,296,944],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3502,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions\/3502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ntheir be Light” and there was light. This is very important because it
\nreveals God creates by the power of His word, as St. Paul wrote later.<\/p>\n
\nworks toward a different end. It works toward the redemption of this world
\nthat God created.<\/p>\n
\nrevealed. This word is the Gospel — the Good News — revealed to the
\napostles and recorded for us in Holy Scripture.<\/p>\n
\ngladness, bring truth into the world.<\/p>\n
\nand not apart from it. Bringing truth into the world begins first with what
\nwe say and speak, and if abide in Him who is Truth, we must speak what is
\ntrue. This new word participates in the redemption of the world by Christ.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n3389 Rives-Eaton Rd.
\nRives Junction, Michigan
\nMother Gabriella, Abbess<\/p>\n
\n8:00 pm
\nWomen only<\/p>\n
\n9:00 am Liturgy<\/p>\n
\n1:00 pm & 3:00 pm
\nBoth men and women<\/p>\n
\nArrive at Monastery after 2:00 p.m.<\/p>\n
\n5:00 p.m. Vespers, Compline
\n7:00 p.m. Dinner
\n8:00 p.m. Session I – Women only<\/p>\n
\n 9:00 a.m. Divine Liturgy
\n11:00 a.m. Lunch
\nFree Time – Gift Shop
\n 1:00 p.m. Session 2 – Men & Women
\n 3:00 p.m. Session 3 – Men & Women
\n 5:00 p.m. Dinner
\n 6:00 p.m. Vigil (Vespers, Matins)<\/p>\n
\n10:00 a.m. Divine Liturgy
\n12:00 p.m. Lunch<\/p>\n
\n$20 per each session for commuters<\/p>\n
\nThey will be reserved on a first come, first served basis. Please see the
\nConference Registration page for updates on room availability. All other
\novernight guests have easy access to 4 hotels located just 10 minutes away
\nat the corner of I-94 & U.S. 127 North.<\/p>\n
\nChurch) as well as Divine Liturgy on Saturday and Sunday. Our Conference
\nprogram is oriented around this schedule, which allows the guests to take
\nadvantage of this time for prayer and reflection if they wish.<\/p>\n
\ngrateful to have such a beautiful and holy setting for our conference.<\/p>\n
\nAbout OWHM:<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nmission of providing support to Orthodox Christian women who work in the
\nmedical and healing professions. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists,
\nsocial workers and the like.<\/p>\n
\nwho “minister to others,” including priest’s wives, teachers, students,
\nmothers and the like, in the group of women who would benefit from our
\norganization.<\/p>\n
\nconference, which includes time for prayer, rest and reflection,
\nopportunities for networking, and lectures given by outstanding speakers. We
\nare grateful to have Mother Gabriella, Abbess of Holy Dormition Monastery as
\nour spiritual director.<\/p>\n
\nJonah Pafthausen (OCA Metropolitan Jonah-2008), Drs. Dan & Jane Hinshaw, Fr.
\nDusan Koprivica, Abbot Meletios Webber, Archbishop Lazar Puhalo, Corinna
\nDelkeskamp-Hayes, and Fr.Thomas Hopko.<\/p>\n
\nyearly conferences. In response, we will continue to welcome all women to
\nthe “Women only”, Friday evening lecture, and will focus on the medical and
\nhealing professions. The two Saturday lectures have been open to men since 2005.<\/p>\n
\nemploys it well as an Antiochian Orthodox priest. Born in the Netherlands
\nand raised in a culturally European home, Fr. Hans has first hand experience
\ngrowing up in two cultures. It helps him understands how ideas shape our
\nsociety. He also knows that in order to preach the Gospel of Christ
\neffectively, you have to know how your hearer thinks and what he believes.<\/p>\n
\nWandering in the library one afternoon he came across Alexander
\nSolzhenitsyn\u2019s Harvard Address<\/a> that would prove to be decisive in his
\njourney to the Orthodox faith.<\/p>\n
\nthorough, so deep, and so accurate that I had to find out what well he was
\ndrinking from,\u201d Fr. Hans said. He did a bit of research and found out about
\nOrthodoxy Christianity. Six months later he met a Greek Orthodox girl. He
\nended up marrying her and the rest is history. That was twenty-seven years ago.<\/p>\n
\nissues from an Orthodox Christian and the larger Judeo\/Christian framework.
\n\u201cAmerican society is in deep crisis that only a moral renewal can heal,\u201d Fr.
\nHans says. \u201cI started Orthodoxy Today to show interested readers how many of
\nour social problems are really moral problems at their core. I also believe
\nthat grasping this moral dimension is a crucial part of bringing healing to
\nthose problems,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n
\nInstitute<\/a>, a research and educational organization that engages the cultural
\nissues of the day within the Orthodox Christian moral tradition, which Fr.
\nHans heads. No longer content with Orthodoxy as \u201cAmerica\u2019s best kept
\nsecret,\u201d AOI is designed to raise credible Orthodox voices to greater
\nprominence in the public square. You may be interested in reading his
\narticle \u201cOrthodox Leadership in a Brave New World.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nplay in American moral renewal (see his essay \u201cOrthodoxy and the American
\nAwakening.\u201d<\/a> He holds a deep love for America and is grateful for its
\nopportunities (see his essay \u201cLiberty\u201d<\/a>) but believes that the secular drift
\nof the culture is a grave danger \u2013 especially to our youth. \u201cGrasping this
\nmoral dimension and hearing the Gospel work hand in hand,\u201d says Fr. Hans.
\n\u201cNo healing can occur apart from God. But proper healing requires a proper
\ndiagnosis. If we want to bring light into the world, we must know how and
\nwhere to bring it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nof the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Fr. Hans writes that everything in life must
\nbe referenced to God. But it is important to know that the God we reference
\nis indeed the God of scripture, and not some idea of God we have picked up
\nelsewhere. \u201cOnly in the recovery of the Gospel, only when that Gospel is
\nproperly preached and heard, will any renewal of the person, the family, and
\nultimately society last and endure,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
\nDuluth News Tribune, International Herald Tribune, Hellenic Voice,
\nBreakpoint website, Front Page Magazine website, Institute for Religion and
\nDemocracy website, Discover website, and more. His podcasts can be heard on
\nAncient Faith Radio.<\/p>\n
\nthe University of Minnesota, an M.Div. from St. Vladimir\u2019s Seminary, studied
\nthe Greek language at the University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and is a
\nfellow at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. He is married
\nand has one daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"