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Lossky on Freedom and the Person
Read more: Lossky on Freedom and the PersonVladimir Lossky, who can be notoriously difficult to read, offers this observation on freedom and the person. It is taken from his essay, “The Creation,” in the small collection, Orthodox Theology: an Introduction. A personal being is capable of loving someone more than his own nature, more than his own life. The person, that is […]
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Living the Paradox
Read more: Living the ParadoxThe doctrines of the Christian faith are full of paradox. It is a reality that we sometimes forget – our familiarity can make us deaf to its jarring sounds: A virgin is a mother. Death is defeated by death. He who seeks to save his life will lose it. He who loses his life for […]
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What Do Angels Guard?
Read more: What Do Angels Guard?It is a commonplace in our culture to speak of guardian angels, particularly when we have come close to a physical disaster and survived. Thus, a near-miss in an auto-accident, or even a survival from a terrible accident, conversation often lightly turns to mention of “my guardian angel.” Of course, such references also raise the […]
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Would You Believe…
Read more: Would You Believe…Would you believe that this is absolutely the most popular post on Glory to God for All Things? I mean, it has about 15,000 views. The comments are quite interesting, including a comment from a direct descendant of Mother Goose. To read the comments, go here. This delightful old English prayer said by children and their […]
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The Luminous Eye
Read more: The Luminous EyeBlessed is the man who has acquired a luminous eye with which he will see how much the angels stand in awe of Thee, O Lord, and how audacious is man. St. Ephrem the Syrian The Seraph could not touch the fire’s coal with his fingers, but just brought it close to Isaiah’s mouth: the […]
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Apophaticism
Read more: ApophaticismIt is impossible to know God – but you have to know Him to know that.
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The Soul as Mystery
Read more: The Soul as MysteryReaders would not be surprised to know that I am particularly drawn to the writings of Dostoevsky and of Solzhenitsyn. What draws me is the Orthodoxy that underlies them – especially their treatment of the human soul. Both authors have a reverence for the human soul that allows their characters to be more than words […]
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Waking Up
Read more: Waking UpThe fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom (Psalm 111:10). This fear descends on us from on High. It is a spiritual feeling, firstly of God and then of us ourselves. We live in a state of awe by virtue of the presence of the Living God together with awareness of our own […]
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Memory Eternal!
Read more: Memory Eternal!His Holiness, Patriarch Alexei II of Moscow and of All Russia, fell asleep today in his home near Moscow. He was elected as Patriarch in 1990 at the critical moment when the winds of freedom were at last blowing through the Orthodox Church in Russia. The nearly two decades since that event have been years […]
Bless, Father. How do we suffer well? How do we suffer without de-moralization? Without de-moralizing our children? What do we…