My name is Eduardo and I have been Orthodox for a little over two months now. My Journey into Orthodoxy began a few years ago when I met my wife. I was raised in a very traditional Mexican family and practiced Catholicism most of my life. I’d like to think I was fairly involved: I went to church on Sundays,…
As a convert to the Orthodox Church, I can say my spiritual journey has been what it needed to be. There is a big difference between my friends who are born into Orthodox families and those who convert to the Orthodox faith. Someone once said that there is a “God shaped vacuum within each of us, and if we do…
When I would go and sit in the back of the very large Greek Orthodox Cathedral, I would get such a deep sense of peace from the service whether it was a full-blown Sunday service with the choir and lots of people or a quieter midweek service. I always felt like time there in the Divine Liturgy or Orthros or…
I come from a broken family. I was emotionally neglected through my formative years. There was a short time when I knew God in my childhood, one sad Christmas spent alone playing Christmas songs on piano while everyone else in my family was absorbed in their problems, but I lost Him through my teenage years. I wasted a lot of time with…
I was born in Chico, California and was baptized as a baby into the Lutheran church. My father was originally from Wisconsin where the Lutheran church is only rivaled in size by the Roman Catholic church. As the first Protestants, the Lutherans have much in common with the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church such as Liturgical worship, the Eucharist,…
I was baptized into the Orthodox Church when I was 4 years old. My parents were divorced and my brother and I spent most of the time with our mother. In the summers we were with our father, summer days filled with younger siblings and Church outings. By the Grace of God, Orthodoxy was a part of my youth waiting…