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The Beauty of Truth and the Existence of God
Read more: The Beauty of Truth and the Existence of GodWhat 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, […]
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Memory Eternal – Fr. Jacob Myers
Read more: Memory Eternal – Fr. Jacob MyersMy wife and I learned tonight of the sudden death of a beloved friend, Fr. Jacob Myers. Fr. Jacob was Rector of St. John the Wonderworker Orthodox Church in Atlanta, Georgia. I do not think there is anyone whom he met who could not count him as a friend. He was one of the most […]
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The Shape of Scripture and the Orthodox Faith
Read more: The Shape of Scripture and the Orthodox FaithI have written frequently about the Orthodox understanding of the Scriptures. I offer a quote taken from a lecture by Fr. Andrew Louth, Professor of Patristic and Byzantine Studies at Durham University, priest in the Diocese of Sourozh (Great Britain) in the Russian Orthodox Church. This passage comes from the first lecture in the series. […]
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In the Secret Place
Read more: In the Secret PlaceFollowing up on the previous article’s discussion of shame and envy – I offer this reprint of an early piece which looks at the right role of the “secret” and “hidden” things of the liturgy. Of all the places and spaces to which we should attend – this article names the most important. I suspect […]
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Shame and Envy – Our Secret Sins
Read more: Shame and Envy – Our Secret SinsSeveral years back I stumbled on a book about the sin of envy. I was struck by what I read and realized that I had never heard a sermon on the topic (nor preached one). Though a number of the Fathers cite envy as the first and greatest sin, it never seemed to come up […]
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Contradiction and Paradox
Read more: Contradiction and ParadoxThe following quote is taken from a letter by Mother Thekla (sometime Abbess of the Monastery of the Assumption in Normanby, England) to a young man who was entering the Orthodox faith. Some of her comments drew my attention. +++ Are you prepared, in all humility, to understand that you will never, in this life, […]
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Today – the Scriptures are Fulfilled
Read more: Today – the Scriptures are FulfilledStanding 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 […]
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Fulfilled – The Christian Reading of the Old Testament
Read more: Fulfilled – The Christian Reading of the Old Testament“That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet…” This is a familiar line in the gospels – particularly in St. Matthew. It signals a moment that the gospel writer (and thus the tradition) sees an action or saying of Jesus as somehow being a “fulfillment” of something within the Old Testament. For […]
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Ok after having said what I just wrote to Mallory, I do remember that the have saint’s relics and that…
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Here’s the result of a quick search online: https://www.saintjohnchurch.org/why-orthodox-christians-venerate-relics/ I’m going to stop writing now. Please forgive me if my…