Month: March 2022

When Your Friends & Family Don’t Understand

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Perhaps you’re reading Walking an Ancient Path because you’re inquiring into Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Or maybe you’re a catechumen. Maybe you were recently baptized or chrismated, or you’re experiencing a renewal in your heart and mind of the Orthodox Faith that you’ve known since your infancy. You’re excited. You’ve fallen in love with the ancient Church. You are grateful to God for the peace you’ve found, the beauty of the lives of…

Five Lessons the Orthodox Church Has Taught Me about Fasting

· Lynnette Horner
[This is a greatly expanded version of a post from three years ago. – LH] We’re about a week and a half into Great Lent, and as far as I can tell, the Orthodox faithful are still standing. And prostrating. If you are able, physically and medically, to follow the full Lenten fast, you should be getting a bit cranky about now. Your body and your emotions are craving your favorite foods,…

Anticipating the Lenten Spring

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I noticed the first stirrings on a brisk, chilly walk through the neighborhood with my dog. The dreary January day was messing with my mood. Post-Christmas, post-New Year, my sick-of-winter malaise arrives as predictably as the turning of a calendar page. * sigh * And the only good thing about February is Girl Scout cookies.   Where I live, nature’s colors at this time of year consist of brown sticks, brown grass,…