The Philip Ludwell III Orthodox Fellowship“Nurturing the roots of Orthodoxy in Dixie’s Land” P.O. Box 174Brown Summit, NC 27214 Great Lent 2022 Beloved Brothers and Sisters: Greetings in the Lord! On behalf of everyone involved with the Ludwell Orthodox Fellowship, we want to extend our warmest regards and prayers as we continue our struggle through […]
Orthodox Place Names in Louisiana
By Walt Garlington St. James Parish —Named for the Holy Apostle James, the brother of St. John the Theologian “The son of Zebedee and brother of John, he was one of the Twelve. At the call of the Lord Jesus, he left his fishing nets and his father and, together with John, immediately followed […]
Fr. Paul Yerger: The Southern Hunger for Orthodox Faith
Address to the 26th Annual Assembly of the OCA Diocese of the SouthDallas, July 22, 2004By Father Paul Yerger I was asked to speak on evangelizing the South, but I don’t feel adequate to the assigned title. Archbishop Dmitri has planted in us the vision of an Orthodox South, and by his own life […]
Orthodox Saints for Dixie: April
Clockwise from top left: Sts. Paternus of Wales; Guthlac of Crowland; Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury; Isidore, Bishop of Sevill;, and Mary of Egypt. By Walt Garlington ♱ Our Holy Mother Mary of Egypt, 1/14 April One of the greatest saints of the Church and an icon of the extraordinary fruits true repentance can produce. Our venerable mother […]
Orthodox Saints for Dixie: March
Clockwise from top left: Sts. Edward the Martyr, Benedict of Nursia, Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, David of Wales, and Patrick of Ireland. By Walt Garlington ♱ St. David, Patron Saint of Wales, 1/14 March Our father among the saints David of Wales, known in Welsh as Dewi Sant, is the patron saint of Wales and considered by many […]
The Southern Attitude of Orthodoxy
By Olga Sibert I was delighted to have come across this video from the Abbeville Institute’s 2019 summer school in which John Devanny quotes Professor Richard Weaver’s views on the cultural and religious orthodoxy of the South. A theme common to my writing is the natural fit between Orthodoxy of the people of American South. […]
How To Bring Orthodoxy to the Southern Culture
“The Orthodox Christian Should be the Funniest Man in the Room: Fr. Job Watts on pastoral guidance and the spreading of Orthodoxy in the Southern U.S.” Originally published October 2018 at ROCOR Studies This fall I got to visit the American South for the second time in my life. Last year I was in the […]
Orthodox Saints for Dixie: February
Clockwise from top left: Saints Brigid of Kildare; Caedmon, the first Orthodox English hymnwriter; Ethelbert of Kent, First Christian King of the English; Teilo of Wales; and Leander of Seville, Apostle of Spain. By Walt Garlington ♱ St. Brigid of Kildare, 1/14 February The “Mary of Ireland”; our venerable Mother Brigid of Kildare, or Brigid of […]
A Prayer “For One’s Earthly and Temporal Homeland”
“O Lord Jesus Christ, eternal God, who within time hast become perfect man from the womb of the Virgin: from thy heavenly throne hearken to our prayer for this land. Prepare it for us as a temporal homeland such that we may easily and safely travel therefrom to our true homeland with thee. Give strength […]
Of Traditional Music
One of the primary purposes of the Ludwell Orthodox Fellowship is to start conversations about how Orthodoxy can best be enculturated into our contemporary society. It is our belief that there are elements within our traditional culture which are capable of being “baptized” and therefore of becoming vehicles of Orthodox faith and piety for us […]
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