Top Churches in Outwater lane, Garfield, Bergen county, New jersey, United states

Three Saints Russian Orthodox

Address: 474 Outwater Ln, Garfield, NJ 07026, USA

Russian Orthodox Church of Three Saints

Address: 474 Outwater Ln, Garfield, NJ 07026, USA

“Those who come to church only once or twice a year for Easter and Christmas service shouldn't give any reviews at all. Our priest-father George is the most dedicated and compassionate pastor, very loyal to his family. A true orthodox Christian would never call Easter servise a show. Easter service comes after Great Lent and passion week, so for us, orthodox christians it is a real celebration and is very special time when we show our joy wholeheartedly, because the Christ was risen, because we can be saved now! So, possibly, for those who only come to the Easter service just to bless their baskets, people who came to share their joy and who pray and sing aloud, who renounce to the whole world that Christ was indeed risen from the dead by shouting out: The Christ is Risen! - Indeed He was Risen! - those people might seem crazy to those onlookers or it might seem like a show fo them, I don't know, but Lord knows that this joy is genuine and it's not a show. It is very sad, though. Please, stop being just onlookers who come once a year to bless the baskets. Please come and pray and you will receive a lot more blessings than just of your baskets. More than that - if you are an orthodox christian you shouldn't badmouth any orthodox church that you came to pray to. It could be different than your own orthodox church that you belong to, but it is still orthodox church just the same, it is the House of Lord. You came to pray and receive blessing, not criticize. Let's look at ourselves first - are we perfect in our ways, are we without a sin? Let's remember what our Lord Jesus Christ had said: You hypocrite! First, remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye. And the last one - i wonder how much richer the church has become from the amount of money that you put you in that basket - you, the one who criticizes the law, that Lord established himself - the law about tithing (10% donation of one's income to the House of God)? Go to orthodox church, be grateful it still exists and there is still Lithurgy that is served through our orthodox priests and be grateful.”