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Eating Your Way to Paradise
Read more: Eating Your Way to ParadiseIt is interesting that the story of mankind’s first sin involved eating. We didn’t eat too much, only the wrong thing in the wrong way. But as sins go, it seems rather mundane. Murder is more dramatic (that was a second generation sin). Betrayal makes for a better novel. But there it was – we […]
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A Particular Brilliance
Read more: A Particular Brilliance“When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained, What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory […]
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Wrestling with God
Read more: Wrestling with GodOne of the most interesting stories in the Old Testament is found in Genesis 32. There we hear the story of Jacob wrestling with God. Or is it the story of Jacob wrestling with an angel? Jacob had to face his brother Esau the next day. His anxiety comes through even in that ancient account. […]
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The Scriptures and the Church
Read more: The Scriptures and the ChurchThe notion of the “Scriptures” has undergone radical changes across the centuries. Today, we picture them as a single book, the Bible. Indeed, we picture that book as private property, perhaps a personal guide for all things spiritual. Even when we hear its words being quoted in public or in Church gatherings, we imagine the […]
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His Appearing in the Liturgy
Read more: His Appearing in the LiturgyStanding in the Church, listening to the choir or chanter sing while priest censes the icons, words swirl with the rising smoke and connections and associations multiply as words evoke images and images evoke thoughts: participation, coinherence, incarnation, mystery, timeless form and formless time, fullness and emptiness, fulfillment and… And then the thought comes, full-formed […]
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Theophany – Showing the World to Be the World
Read more: Theophany – Showing the World to Be the WorldI was standing beside the Jordan River, somewhere along its trek through Israel. I was with a group of pilgrims led by Met. Kallistos Ware gathered for the Great Blessing of the Waters. Somehow, it seemed that I was the only priest who had brought an epitrachelion (stole), so I loaned it to the Metropolitan […]
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The Hidden Gospel
Read more: The Hidden GospelThere is a genre of Scriptural writings that are described as “apocalyptic.” The book of Revelation, in Greek, is called “The Apocalypse.” Ezekiel and Daniel also have very strong passages described as apocalyptic. The term is very straightforward: it means “revealing what is hidden.” These books are described as “making known hidden things” because their […]
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The Apocalypse of Christmas
Read more: The Apocalypse of ChristmasFew people think of Christmas as the End of the World. We have one set of feelings and thoughts for the former and another set for the latter. Christmas, taken by itself, seems quite harmless and able to be adopted or adapted (in one way or another) by cultures at large. Indeed, some cultures adopt […]
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Timmy, Many thanks! As God gives us grace, may He prosper us on the Way.
Fr. Stephen, Thank you for such a beautiful & salient distillation. Truly, this is the essence of the spiritual life,…
Simon, Well said. They’ll be changing your name from “the Gray” to “the Wise.” 🙂
Matthew, Most of what we descibed as human suffering is precisely because of evil. There is nothing “unfallen” about such…
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Wow…such a simple post. Such a profound post. Thank you Father!