Holy Cross Chaplaincy is an Orthodox Christian chaplaincy serving the students and staff of the University of British Columbia.Tumblr (3.0; @holycrosschaplaincy)http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/<p>All Holy Cross Chaplaincy services are suspended for the duration of Great Lent. Please check back here for service details after Pascha!</p> <p>Please note also that Fr. Justin is still available for on-campus pastoral services by appointment, as always.</p>http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/444041989http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/444041989Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:39:38 +1200<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx5dxnoLUU1qa6ouxo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Compline is cancelled this Tuesday as it is the Feast of the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple.  We will instead be at <a href="http://www.stjohnofshanghai.org/" target="_blank">St. John of Shanghai Orthodox Church</a> near Commercial Drive to celebrate vespers and a litya.  Service is at 7 pm.  Come join us there.</p>http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/364589492http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/364589492Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:29:46 +1200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx13kq0mhP1qa6ouxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>St. Aphrahat the Persian on prayer:</p> <p><i>Why, my beloved, did our Saviour teach us saying: ‘Pray to your Father in secret, with the door shut’? I will show you, as far as I am capable. He said ‘Pray to your Father with the door closed’. Our Lord’s words thus tell us ‘pray in secret in your heart, and shut the door’. What is the door He says we must shut, if not your mouth? For here is the temple in which Christ dwells, just as the Apostle said: You are the temple of the Lord for Him to enter into your inner person, into this house, to cleanse it from everything that is unclean, while the door—that is to say, your mouth—is closed. If this were not the case, how would you understand the passage? Suppose you happened to be in the desert where there was no house and no door, would you be able to pray in secret? Or if you happened to be on top of a mountain, would you not be able to pray?</i></p> <p>Source: Aaron Taylor at <a href="http://logismoitouaaron.blogspot.com/2009/02/that-we-may-be-his-templesss-ignatius.html" target="_blank">Logismoi</a>.  The icon is by <a href="http://www.iconpainter.ge/" target="_blank">Lasha Kintsurashvili</a>, and left to right it is mostly likely Ss. Ephraim and Isaac the Syrians and St. Aphrahat the Persian.</p>http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/360188054http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/360188054Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:55:38 +1200<p>We are having compline tomorrow night (Tuesday), at 7 pm.  I at least will also be at Regent for supper beforehand, at about 5:30 pm, so join us for that too.</p> <p>However, our location is changing.  We are not in the chapel anymore, but will be meeting in the Community Room, which is on the third floor of the main St. Mark’s College building.  If you get lost, just give a shout, and we’ll come find you.</p> <p>See you there.</p>http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/352965452http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/352965452Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:28:08 +1200<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwmwpwiP9W1qa6ouxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://byztex.blogspot.com/2010/01/st-maximus-confessor-champion-of.html#more" target="_blank">St. Maximus the Confessor</a> was a learned man who was exiled and tortured for cleaving to the Truth against heresy.  St. Maximus, pray to Christ our God for us!</p>http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/347030493http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/347030493Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:01:08 +1200<p>Services are starting again tomorrow for this semester at UBC.  Except with the loss of our choir director we will be serving Little Compline instead of Vespers.</p> <p>So, same time, same place.  See you there.</p>http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/329643868http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/329643868Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:35:01 +1200<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kvpdseawgQ1qa6ouxo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The Christmas feast is ending, and with it comes the Feast of Theophany, the great blessing of the waters, and the start of another term.  What a wonderful way to start.</p> <p>We will not be meeting this week (Tuesday, Jan. 5) for prayer due to the vesperal liturgy for Theophany at our church, but services should be starting again next week.  News will be posted here.</p>http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/315655878http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/315655878Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:31:26 +1200<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UmiDev34LgQ&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UmiDev34LgQ&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/270052162http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/270052162Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:03:48 +1200<p>This coming Tuesday will be the last vespers of the semester as we will be breaking for exams and the Christmas holiday.  <b>Fr. Michael Fourik </b>will be serving with us, and will finish his talk on <b>Russian Orthodoxy in Vancouver</b>.  As always, we will be meeting first for <b>supper</b> in <b>Regent College at 5 pm</b>.</p> <p><b>Update</b></p> <p>Fr. Michael is not able to join us tonight after all, but will be coming sometime next semester instead.  Instead, tonight we will have a reader’s vespers.  Please do come and pray with us.</p>http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/261194145http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/261194145Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:12:00 +1200<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wOGXdLoNl2w&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wOGXdLoNl2w&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Elder Cleopa of Romania on prayer</p> <p>(For a biography of Elder Cleopa, click <a href="http://www.uncutmountain.com/index.php/uncut/pages/C33/" target="_blank">here</a> and scroll to the bottom)</p>http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/256004908http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/256004908Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:03:05 +1200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktbpivh2QQ1qa6ouxo1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://orthodoxwiki.org/Kallistos_Ware" target="_blank">Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware)</a> on <a href="http://orthodoxwiki.org/Amphilochios_(Makris)" target="_blank">Elder Amphilochios of Patmos</a>:</p> <p>“What most distinguished his character was his gentleness, his humor, the warmth of his affection, and his sense of tranquil yet triumphant joy.  His smile was full of love, but devoid of all sentimentality.  Life in Christ, as he understood it, is not a heavy yoke, a burden to be carried with sullen resignation, but a personal relationship to be pursued with eagerness of heart.  He was firmly opposed to all spiritual violence and cruelty.  It was typical that, as he lay dying and took leave of the nuns under his care, he should urge the abbess not to be too severe on them: ‘They have left everything to come here, they must not be unhappy.’</p> <p>Two things in particular I recall about him.  The first was his love of nature and, more specifically, of trees….A second thing that stands out in my memory is the counsel which he gave me when, as a newly-ordained priest, the time had come for me to return from Patmos to Oxford, where I was to begin teaching at the university.  He himself had never visited the West, but he had a shrewd perception of the situation of Orthodoxy in the Diaspora.  ’Do not be afraid,’ he insisted.  Do not be afraid because of your Orthodoxy, he told me; do not be afraid because, as an Orthodox in the West, you will be often isolated and always in a small minority.  Do not make compromises but do not attack other Christians; do not be either defensive or agressive; simply be yourself.”</p>http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/248794920http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/248794920Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:11:00 +1200<p>A big thank you to everyone who came out to hear James Hargrave speak.  We had a good evening of very thoughtful discussion and conversation on Orthodox missions.</p> <p>Next up, this <b>Tuesday, November 17</b>, Fr. Lawrence Farley of <a href="http://www.saintherman.net/" target="_blank">St. Herman of Alaska Orthodox Church</a> in Langley will be serving <b>vespers</b> with us and speaking afterwards on <b>English-speaking Orthodoxy </b>in the Lower Mainland.</p> <p>Come and pray with us.</p>http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/244121699http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/244121699Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +1200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksvcxmqGed1qa6ouxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>To re-iterate the details:</p> <blockquote>James Hargrave on Orthodox missiology and history of missions</blockquote> <blockquote>Friday Nov. 13</blockquote> <blockquote>7:00 pm-9:00pm</blockquote> <blockquote>Community Room (Third Floor) St. Mark’s College (Wesbrook Mall and Iona Drive)</blockquote> <p>If you can’t make it right at 7 pm, please do come later if you can.  We’ll still be around to answer questions and discuss even after James has finished his talk.</p> <p>More information on James found <a href="http://www.ocmc.org/missionaries/missionary_profile.aspx?MissionaryId=10&PageTitle=Missionary+Biography" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> <p>More information on Orthodoxy in Tanzania found <a href="http://www.orthodoxytz.com/default.asp" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/238601371http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/238601371Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:17:45 +1200<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksocbctvuD1qa6ouxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.orthodoxalbania.org/English/Archbishop/AB%20Forest1.htm" target="_blank">Archbishop Anastasios of Albania</a> on missions:</p> <p>“Missions is not an appendix of our faith, of our own Church life, it belongs in the essence of our own identity.”</p> <p>“Missions is an essential expression of Orthodox self-conscience, a crying out to action for the fulfillment of God’s will ‘on earth as it is in heaven.’  Ultimately, indifference to missions is a denial of Orthodoxy.”</p> <p>“Orthodox mission consists in giving the treasure we have, and leaving the other to decide whether he will take it or not. If the other wants to join the Orthodox Church, you will never say “No.” Our aim is to transmit the tradition of the Gospel in all its fullness, remaining free from any anxiety to convert anyone. You cannot impose on anyone’s freedom. You are there, you give your witness; you are a candle, lighted by paschal joy, and if the other wishes to take from your flame, then of course, you will not refuse him.”</p> <p>More found <a href="http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/AnastasiosMission.php" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/234701981http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/234701981Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:21:12 +1200<p>This Tuesday, <b>Fr. Mikhail Fourik</b>, of Holy Resurrection Cathedral, will be serving Vespers with us at 7:00 pm, and speaking afterwards on <b>Russian Orthodoxy in Vancouver</b>.</p> <p>Come on out and pray with us, fellowship, and learn about Russian Orthodoxy!</p>http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/230546328http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/230546328Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:37:40 +1200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kscioiLwKM1qa6ouxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnava_(Nasti%C4%87)" target="_blank">Holy New Confessor Varnava</a>, Pray to Christ God for Us!</p>http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/228240021http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/228240021Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:07:29 +1200<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ks8ofxF5uI1qa6ouxo1_250.gif"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://orthodoxwiki.org/Epiphanios_(Theodoropoulos)" target="_blank">Elder Epiphanios of Athens (+1989)</a></p> <p>“I want whoever is near me to feel that he has room to breath, not that he is suffocated.  I don’t call anyone to me.  I don’t hold onto anyone.  I don’t chase anyone away.  Whoever wants to come, whoever wants to stay, whoever wants to leave.  I don’t consider anyone a supporter or a follower.”</p> <p>“My worst hell is to realize that I have saddened a beloved person.”</p>http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/226143274http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/226143274Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:21:33 +1200<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ks6wq36HOm1qa6ouxo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsLife.asp?FSID=103067" target="_blank">Venerable Nestor the Chronicler of the Kiev Caves</a>, Pray to Christ God for Us!</p> <p>“”Great is the benefit of book learning,” he said, “for books point out and teach us the way to repentance, since from the words of books we discover wisdom and temperance. This is the stream, watering the universe, from which springs wisdom. In books is a boundless depth, by them we are comforted in sorrows, and they are a bridle for moderation. If you enter diligently into the books of wisdom, then you shall discover great benefit for your soul. Therefore, the one who reads books converses with God or the saints.”</p>http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/225152774http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/225152774Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:25:14 +1200<p>Looking for dinner company?  Those of us who are able will be regularly meeting for supper in the Regent College atrium (corner of Wesbrook Mall and University Blvd), Tuesdays, at 5 pm, before heading over to St. Mark’s Chapel to prepare for vespers.</p> <p>All are welcome to join us.  Just bring your own food, and we’ll look forward to seeing you.</p> <p>Any change of venues or cancellations will be posted here on the blog.</p>http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/223162070http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/223162070Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:32:32 +1200<p>For more information, or to just get in contact with an Orthodox Christian on campus, e-mail: info [at] holycrosschaplaincy [dot] org</p> <p>To get in contact with our chaplain, Fr. Justin Hewlett, e-mail: frjustin [at] holycrosschaplaincy [dot] org</p>http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/223153321http://holycrosschaplaincy.org/post/223153321Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:21:55 +1200