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The Strength We Find in Weakness
Read more: The Strength We Find in WeaknessAbba Poemen believed that the only time you could observe a person’s true character was when that person was tempted. From the Sayings of the Desert Fathers +++ There is obvious wisdom in the saying about Abba Poemen: it is not our strengths that best define us, but our weaknesses. In our culture, where virtual […]
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Where the Gospel Begins
Read more: Where the Gospel BeginsWhere does the Gospel begin – how do we tell the story of Christ? This question may seem too obvious to require an answer. However, it is increasingly relevant in what some describe as a “post-Christian” era. This reality came home to me years ago, during the first year of my ordained ministry. A woman […]
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Telling the Truth
Read more: Telling the TruthLet God be found true, though every man be found a liar, as it is written, “That Thou mightest be justified in Thy words, And mightest prevail when Thou art judged” (Romans 3:4). And everyone deceives his neighbor, And does not speak the truth, They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves […]
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Learning to Sin
Read more: Learning to SinAs strange as it sounds – human beings have to “learn to sin.” Not that we need any help doing the things that sinners do – all of that comes quite easily to us. But we have to learn that we are sinners – and this does not come easily to us. Oddly, I first […]
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The Song of God
Read more: The Song of GodMan is a musical composition, a wonderfully written hymn to powerful creative activity. – St. Gregory of Nyssa (PG 44, 441 B) In St. Gregory’s thought, man is not only a singer, but a song. We are not only song, but the song of God. Indeed within one theme of the fathers, all of creation […]
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Of Whom I Am First
Read more: Of Whom I Am FirstIn the Divine Liturgy, it is customary for this prayer to be offered by all who are coming to receive communion. I quote a portion: I believe, O Lord, and I confess that Thou art truly the Christ, the Son of the Living God, Who camest into the world to save sinners, of whom I […]
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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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Crushing the Dragons of Theophany
Read more: Crushing the Dragons of TheophanyToday marks one of the greatest feasts of the Orthodox year (New Calendar), the Feast of Theophany, Christ’s Baptism in the Jordan river. Across the world Orthodox Christians will gather after the Liturgy to bless the waters: the ocean, a river, a spring, etc. Every feast day in Orthodoxy is connected to the Feast of […]
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2011 in Review
Read more: 2011 in ReviewThe WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. I wanted to share this as a way of giving thanks. I’ll be back to writing soon. My deepest thanks to the family of readers of Glory to God for All Things. I cannot express how close you are to my heart […]
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Absent but Not Departed
Read more: Absent but Not DepartedI will be away from my computer through sometime in early January, God willing. Comments will be turned off during that time. Prayers for a good feast for us all! Fr. Stephen
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