✚ Welcome to Cornell University's Orthodox Christian Fellowship ✚
Cornell University's Chapter of Orthodox Christian Fellowship (Cornell OCF) is Cornell’s campus ministry program that support fellowships on college campuses among believers that experience and witness to the Orthodox Christian Church and everyone interested in Orthodox Christianity.
Our Mission
Our mission is to establish a profound and lasting fellowship among ourselves and others who share these interests, and seeking ways to dedicate ourselves and each other and our whole life to Christ our God through community life, prayer, service to others and study of the Faith. Regardless of background or creed, all are cordially and enthusiastically welcome.
"Do not say, 'I am a youth,' For you shall go to all to whom I send you, And whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of their faces, For I am with you to deliver you," says the Lord. Then the Lord put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me: "Behold, I have put My words in your mouth. See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, To root out and to pull down, To destroy and to throw down, To build and to plant." Jeremiah 1:7-8
Cornell OCF's Patron Saint - Saint Catherine
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Message from Fr. Tom Saint Catherine's
defense of the faith in Christ Jesus stumped the most learned pagan
philosophers in Alexandria, Egypt, and for this she earned her crown
of martyrdom. OCF members tale St. Catherine as their model Christian
leader and defender of the faith. Your love of your Orthodox faith
and your exhibition and defense of the Orthodox faith in this
multicultural, relativistic, I'm OK, you're OK society can make you
unpopular and worse yet, hated and the target of the irreligious
members of this society. Keep the faith and continue to model your
faith through Christian charitable actions. St. Catherine would be
very proud of you.
Yours in Service to Christ Jesus,
Fr. Tom
Announcement
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Have a Great Summer!
Cornell OCF will return next fall (2012). Contact us is you want to be added to our weekly e-mail list for updates next fall.
✚ 2012 Topics and Discussion materials
Cornell OCF meets this Spring on
Thursdays- Edwards room @ Annabel Taylor from 7-8 PM for Bible study, and on Mondays 9-10AM for prayer at Annabel Taylor Auditorium. If you are new, be sure to complete the new comer sign up form on our contact page so you can get updates about meeting times and topics. Our discussions are informal so please let us know if you have topics of interest.
Below are our discussion materials for this semester.
✚ Discussion Materials (Spring 2012)
✚An orthodox response to the youtube video released in January that caused some buzz: "Why I Hate Relgion, but Love Jesus Christ"
by Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick
✚Feb 11: Thoughts in Christ: The World to Come
by Fr. Vladimir Berzonsky
✚Feb 16: From the Prayer of Jesus to Prayer of the Heart
by Fr. John Breck
✚Feb 23: How Jesus adjusted his own Personality Style
by Dr. Robert A. Rohm, president of Personality Insights
✚Feb 27: OCF National Day of Prayer (9-10AM)
Anabell Taylor Chapel
✚March 26: Almsgiving: A Challenge to Give with the Right and Hide from the Left (Matt. 6:3)
by Misc. Authors
✚April 3: What a lenten meal really means
by Stephanie Colello, Edwards Room 7-8PM
✚April 19: The Paschal Homily of St. John Chrysostom
Edwards Room 7-8PM
✚April 26: Jesus; the Atheist?, a lecture by Dr. Mena Mirhom
Location: Edwards Room, Annabel Taylor Hall, 7:30-8:30PM
✚ Featured Articles
Thanksgiving Purifies the Heart"O God, my heart is steadfast; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory. Awake, lute and harp! I will awaken the dawn. I will praise You, O LORD, among the peoples, and I will sing praises to You among the nations. For Your mercy is great above the heavens, and Your truth reaches to the clouds. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, and Your glory above all the earth;" (Psalm 108:1-5).
Hosea the Prophet
Old Testament reflection of Christ -Blessed prophet Hosea
An Orthodox Perspective on various social issues
This is a very useful site to learn about an Orthodox Christian's perspectives on various social and political issues such as assisted reproduction, evolution, homosexuality, suicide/assisted suicide, FACEBOOK etc.
