Category: Cross

  • Today Is Suspended – The 15th Antiphon

    At the Matins service of Holy Friday the following hymn is sung: Today is suspended on a tree He who suspended the earth upon the waters. The King of the angels is decked with a crown of thorns. He who wraps the heavens in clouds is wrapped in the purple of mockery. He who freed…

  • The Tree Heals the Tree

    The Third Sunday of Great Lent is given to meditation on the Holy Wood of the Cross. I offer this mediation. Readers of the New Testament are familiar with St. Paul’s description of Christ as the “Second Adam.” It is an example of the frequent Apostolic use of an allegoric reading of the Old Testament…

  • Outside of Paradise

    And we’ve got to get ourselves back to the Garden…     Joni Mitchell (1969) The instinct of the folk-music singer celebrating the Woodstock Festival was not wrong. The religious sensibilities of younger generations today would likely say the same thing but with no reference to the Scriptures. The longing that marks the human heart finds many…

  • Emptiness

    Our life in the Body of Christ begins with our Baptism into Christ’s death (Romans 6:3). This phrase explains what it means to be Baptized “into the Body of Christ” (I Corinithians 12:13).  To exist in the Body of Christ is to do so by existing in the death of Christ, as well as His…

  • The Cross of Christ and the Way of Life

    The Mystery of our Salvation is contained within the Cross of our God and Savior Jesus Christ. And it is correct to say the “mystery of our salvation,” for what is contained there is more than a cosmic transaction (Christ pays for our sins): it is also the whole of our way of life. It…


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  1. Thank you Fr. Stephen. I guess at the end of the day it is a “fullness” versus “thin-ness” issue. Milk…

  2. What do we make, then, of all the evangelicals (for example) who “made a decision” for Christ?

  3. Yes Father, I think you have the correct situation I’m referring to. I’m glad you go where you’re invited! Hopefully…


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