Category: Pascha

The Beauty of Truth and the Existence of God

What is the criterion of the rightness of this life? Beauty. – Fr. Pavel Florensky It is our habit of thought to think of Truth as, more or less, a correct description or a correct statement. As such, Beauty belongs to some other realm of thought. Beauty cannot be “correct” or “incorrect.” In Orthodox thought,…

January 22, 2013
The Mystery of Christ’s Baptism

This week, the Church moves from the feast of Christmas to the feast of Theophany – the celebration of the Baptism of Christ. The intent of this feast is not to celebrate a succession of historical events (the Baptism of Christ is at least 30 years later than His birth). Rather this feast takes us into the depths of…

January 4, 2013
Today – the Scriptures are Fulfilled

Standing in the synagogue in Nazareth, Christ reads from Isaiah (61) the passage: The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to…

January 1, 2013

Matthew, This is a “big” question. A problem in thinking about it is in our tendency to think in a…

Fr. Stephen said: “It seems clear that without the Crucifixion, there is no communion.” Fr. Stephen … how do the…

My apologies for likely posting too much (!) but it just seems to me there is a malevolent gaze as…

Thank you Father. Yes, he’s steadfast in that no matter what transpired… I suppose this is “salt of the earth.”…

Dee, Janine, et al I am very interested in the small, personal details within the gospel accounts. I believe they…

The Beauty of Truth and the Existence of God