Family Matters

Fr Alex Goussetis offers a Memorial Day message on ways to share our family history with our children.

Fr Alex Goussetis offers a Memorial Day message on ways to share our family history with our children.

Presvytera Melanie speaks with Natalie Kapeluck Nixon, the Director of Youth & Young Adult Ministry for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA and founder of the St. Nicholas Program, a church camp experience for persons with special needs of all ages, and their families. The 2022 St. Nicholas Camp session runs from August 5-8. See this website register: https://www.uocyouth.org/stnicholasprogram

Presvytera Melanie speaks with Natalie Kapeluck Nixon, the Director of Youth & Young Adult Ministry for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA and founder of the St. Nicholas Program, a church camp experience for persons with special needs of all ages, and their families. The 2022 St. Nicholas Camp session runs from August 5-8. See this website register: https://www.uocyouth.org/stnicholasprogram

Presvytera Melanie speaks with her husband Father Joseph DiStefano about their lives together as a family navigating their son's intensive special needs over the years, how they address losses of their dreams for family life, and are finding new discoveries of meaning, deeper understandings of love, and simple joys of shared life together. It all comes together when the focus is on what is most important in life - God's Heavenly Kingdom.

Presvytera Melanie speaks about her son Michael Seraphim, describing the lessons he has been teaching her family including through the details of his timely birth, and the unique way God enlightens people through Michael, when they "have eyes to see" him as a child of God.

Presvytera Melanie speaks about her son Michael Seraphim, describing the lessons he has been teaching her family including through the details of his timely birth, and the unique way God enlightens people through Michael, when they "have eyes to see" him as a child of God.

Fr Alex Goussetis describes the wide variety of people who will attend Divine Liturgy on Palm Sunday.

Fr Alex Goussetis describes the wide variety of people who will attend Divine Liturgy on Palm Sunday.

Suetta and Nate discuss their Amish and Mennonite backgrounds, how they both entered marriage with the mindset that they were “extraordinary” and how that affected their marriage. They discuss the steps they took to save their relationship and how Orthodoxy provided a solution for the spiritual structure they were seeking and how their journey in life has showed them the beauty in being “ordinary."