This is a Bulletin Board to help serve those our community serves, and we serve anyone who needs help or just someone to listen. We serve folks who live any where. To help with emergency needs, and just listen when needed. We listen to you and we walk with you.
We are a day room to get out of the cold. to read a book. Watch the news. Play a game.
The Syriac Orthodox Monastery of the Holy Martyrs is a monastic community.
You can reach us at 574-316-9970 24 hours a day or night. Or message us here or on our community page or Father Theodosius' page.
At the Monastery of the Holy Martyrs , I don’t call them ‘the poor’ – I know their names, their faces. They are not a social problem or category. I’ve seen their faces. It’s the face-to-face encounter that you create a space for here that transforms all of us. That is why I keep saying, stop by any time. I love meeting new folks. I love meeting my brothers and sisters. I love meeting my neighbors . Who wouldn't? I have found that there a lot around here who don't know that. And I have been to many meetings here in Plymouth where my brothers and sisters are talked about as a problem to be helped rather than what Christ did which was to love and share and be with. So much for calling yourself a Christian. You don't have any idea what that is and you are not one. So stop calling yourself a Christian.
Every day when I pray I thank Christ for His willingness to let me be with people and allow them to be my neighbors. I thank Him not just to see His face but to also meet and listen to Him. This defines us as Christians: when we’re with people, strangers who come to the door, we don’t put them into little social boxes – refugees, the poor, the displaced. With Jesus, we say: they are our brothers and sisters. In them we see not only the face of Christ, but Christ Himself.
Want to meet Him? Come on down. I don't talk about volunteering. I talk about being His heart and His hands. That is all of our calling.
The most fundamental need of your brothers and sisters, your neighbors, is something that most of you take for granted - a meaningful place in a healthy community, a sense of belonging, called them something far different.
Without it, drug rehab, improved housing or employment programs have little effect. Without it, your brothers and sisters remain trapped in a lifestyle that is difficult to escape. When folks do not feel like they belong, they just cannot seem to recover. So we have a recovery program.
And this lack of community is all over Plymouth. Folks, your brothers and sisters, are being shut out. You treat them as a category, you call them the poor. Christ calls your brothers and sisters something far different. God creates all of us as true icons of Christ. They are Christ.
Traditional Orthodox Christianity. Serving God by Serving the Poor and the Poorest of the Poor in America's Inner Cities and Missions. Bringing the truth of Orthodox Christianity to the disenfranchised and marginalized, the poor and forgotten...the Message of the Stable. “While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” John 9:4-6
