New Hope Offered By the Orthodox Christian Laity

Orthodox Christian Laity, the US Orthodox Renewal Group, continues to be a faithful gift to the Church. Now, some 20 years after its birth in Chicago, it grows gracefully, increasingly touching the spirits of Orthodox in trying times. The good news is that the Orthodox renewal movement is alive across the land.

Witness the resolution on Orthodox Christian Unity passed by the General Assembly of the 48th Archdiocesan Convention at Montreal, Canada, which “calls upon all canonical Orthodox jurisdictions to meet and take practical, concrete, ecclesial steps to achieve administrative unity. Such a meeting may be called within the next six months.” This is indeed positive news.

Need a lift? I recommend every Orthodox join the ranks of Orthodox Christian Laity and attend its annual meeting in Chicago, November 3-4, 2007. If you haven?t had the experience on an OCL annual meeting, you are short changing yourself. Like a pilgrim traveling to the Holy Land, every adult Orthodox should at least be enriched by the intellectual, emotional and spiritual lift that comes from fellowship with other hope-filled, renewal-minded Orthodox.

By coming together, we are reminded that we are not alone. Nor are we delusional for staying in the ranks to advocate reform. We certainly acknowledge that the church has a long way to go, but we have learned that we are the Church and there is nowhere else to go.

One cannot hear speakers like Father Peter Gillquist on crucial steps to Orthodox Unity without feeling spiritually inspired. Or Professor Terry Mattingly, who stirs one?s soul, with his lively expression of the Orthodox faith. Other renown speakers through the years have included

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This article was put out by Orthodox Christian Laity(OCL) an organization pushing for the establishment of one Orthodox Church in the United States, no jurisdictions. I, for myself, do not necessarily endorse OCL as I do not know enough about its leadership or goals. I simply provide this article as a courtesy to any reader that wishes to read it.