Saints Cyril and Methodius Orthodox Christian Church in Summerville, SC
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In 2020, due to the confluence of (1) many people coming to Ss. Cyril & Methodius seeking the Orthodox Faith and (2) the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, we conducted an educational program for seekers and catechumens via email called Catechesis from Afar. The materials used for that program are…
Originally Published: April 28, 2021 Fr. Anastasy shared the following from Fr. Michael Carney's bulletin and I thought it would be worthy of your consideration, especially those of you approaching the Holy Font of Baptism. The Commandments of the Church As found in The Faith of the Saints, an Orthodox…
Originally Published: March 16, 2021 One of the catechumens in this group asked about fasting. In case anyone else is uncertain of how we fast during the Great Lent, here are things for your consideration. Fasting Fr. Anastasy included the following words of St. John Chrysostom on the March Pocket…
Originally Published: March 4, 2021 I received several replies from catechumens in this group on the topics presented last time, all of which were wonderful to receive and were written with evident love of God and seriousness toward the subjects. Rather than barrel ahead into the next parts of Genesis,…
Originally Published: December 29, 2020 Forgive me for the great chasm of time between last email and this. If you recall, we had left the Gospel according to St. Luke for now and gone back to the beginning, to the book of Genesis. By now I expect many of you…
Originally Published: August 20, 2020 Thank you, again, to those who shared their initial journeys to the Orthodox faith. These experiences raise the question: What is it that draws us to God? Alexander Kalomiros provides one perspective on this in his work Nostalgia for Paradise: The Christian life is a…
Originally Published: July 16, 2020 At the very end of every Divine Liturgy at our parish, we sing these two hymns before we break for the meal at trapeza: The Church is shown to be a many-lighted heaven, That doth shine a guiding light upon all them that do believe,…