Greetings! I’m Deacon Maximus Cannaverde, I serve at St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, a mission in western, North Carolina in the American Carpatho-Russian Diocese of North America. I studied at the Antiochian House of Studies. I currently reside on a quasi-farm with my wife Emilia.
This blog started as a workshop. The need to flesh out in greater detail the content of that workshop has given birth to this blog.
The purpose of this enterprise is a twofold offensive. First, there’s a need to re-catechize our own parishes. The content of this catechesis will focus not on the dogmatic per se but on the application of dogma to contemporaneous questions that inevitably arise within the context of a post-Christian society. This will bolster the Orthodox Christian to live in the world but not of it. Second, this will provide the “tools” necessary for Orthodox Christians to properly engage and evangelize. My hope is, through this, we will have our faith strengthened so the Great Commission will be fulfilled in our own age.
I encourage discussion, comments are welcomed, but please keep things civil. This is a blog that encourages interfaith dialog, but that emphatically does not mean that it supports ecumenism, so no accusations. Just as the Fathers engaged with those outside the Church, so too I hope to honor by emulation. This is not an attempt to place this blog alongside the great theological works of the past. I do not seek to change Tradition. I do not seek to give up anything in which we’ve been entrusted to safeguard. I’m simply a student of our Tradition and a pilgrim in this world that has been given a talent and wish to multiply it with God’s grace. (Matt. 25:14-30)
Kyrie eleison