Dr. Albert Rossi, professor, author and clinical psychologist, is offering a presentation called Cultivating a Love of Prayer at 7 PM on Dec. 14 as part of the series the ‘Fundamentals of Christian Life’ created by the Metropolis Religious Education Committee. This is the third such presentation this year.

Dr. Rossi teaches and serves as the resident Clinical Psychologist at St. Vladimir’s Seminary and is the author of numerous articles on psychology and religion. In addition to a bi-weekly podcast on Ancient Faith entitled Becoming a Healing Presence, Dr. Rossi is the author of a book by the same name and another book entitled All is Well. He taught at Pace University for 24 years and is a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of New York.

The ‘Fundamentals of Christian Life’ is an initiative to improve literacy of the Orthodox Christian faith by focusing on the fundamentals of Christian life – even as parishes, clergy and families contend with the worldly things that often compromise a life in Christ.

“We believe it is accurate to say that the average Orthodox Christian family is struggling with ‘Christian literacy.’ This is not a criticism, but a common lament among clergy and parish religious education leaders,” said committee co-chair Fr. Demetrius Tsikouris.

In promoting the ‘Fundamentals of Christian life,’ the Committee is making an emphatic, unified, consistent and repetitive promotion of the following: Love of the Sabbath (and worship in general); Love of the Scripture; Love of Prayer; and Love of Service to Others.  “There is a teaching from Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol that asks the question, ‘How do we learn to pray?’” added Sundy Gulu, also a co-chair “and the answer lies in the principle that ‘Appetite comes with eating.’ We want to cultivate an appetite for the fundamentals of Christian life in our parishes.”  Register for this webinar at: https://tinyurl.com/LoveOfPrayer