“And this service was so strange and weird and beautiful and wonderful. The choir was sort of off to the side, I couldn’t really see them. There was candles all over the place. The priest for the most part was facing east. And the songs were being sung - very peaceful. And I felt the real remarkable sense of the holiness of God, the enormity of God, the otherness of God and the nearness of God, all colliding in a strange way in a matter of about 45 minutes.
— Father David Morrison
The podcast this week is so timely and so needed!
Steve talks with Father David, a Russian Orthodox priest living and working as a priest in Bozeman, Montana. This is a 2-part podcast that will educate, inspire, and help us to embrace another perspective on the faith.
This is a timely conversation as we watch the people of Ukraine face the perils of today. But it is also for those of us eager to learn more, know more, and do more.
Fr. David Morrison is parish priest at St Anthony Orthodox Church in Bozeman, MT. He received his Master of Divinity degree at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary and a B.A. in History from Trinity University in San Antonio. He spent his first year of marriage teaching high school in Guatemala, is a professional musician, and likes good Tex-Mex food. He and his wife have 3 children, and are grateful to live and hike in beautiful Montana.
On the edge of war, one foot already in,
I no longer pray for peace:
I pray for miracles.
I pray that stone hearts will turn
to tenderheartedness,
and evil intentions will turn
to mercifulness,
and all the soldiers already deployed
will be snatched out of harm's way,
and the whole world will be
astounded onto its knees.
I pray that all the "God talk"
will take bones,
and stand up and shed
its cloak of faithlessness,
and walk again in its powerful truth.
I pray that the whole world might
sit down together and share
its bread and its wine.
Some say there is no hope,
but then I've always applauded the holy fools
who never seem to give up on
the scandalousness of our faith:
that we are loved by God......
that we can truly love one another.
I no longer pray for peace:
I pray for miracles.
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