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Just the Shell
Read more: Just the ShellAn entertainment personality, fresh from various surgeries (augmentations, alterations, etc.), recently opined in an interview, “But in the end, this is just a shell.” It was a very revealing cultural moment. The body is “just a shell” but worthy of tens of thousands of dollars to alter its appearance. It has been observed that modern […]
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The 15th Antiphon of Great and Holy Friday Matins Sung by Archbishop Job of the Midwest
Read more: The 15th Antiphon of Great and Holy Friday Matins Sung by Archbishop Job of the MidwestThis is a wonderful video of the late Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest. May his memory be eternal! [vodpod id=Video.3070600&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] more about "The 15th Antiphon Sung by Archbishop …", posted with vodpod
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The Instinct of Repentance
Read more: The Instinct of RepentanceRepentance is a difficult journey in the modern world. Our psychologized culture has lost the language and the instinct of repentance. When such language and instinct last existed is itself a significant question. A large measure of the language of repentance is found in the word repentance itself. It is a Latin cognate (coming into […]
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The Great Fast
Read more: The Great FastMonday (tomorrow) marks the beginning of Great Lent in the Orthodox Church (which liturgically begins at Forgiveness Vespers on Sunday). Though Great Lent is kept with rigor in Orthodox Tradition, there is nothing unusual asked of believers – nothing that we do not do on many days throughout the rest of the year. We fast; […]
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A Sermon on Repentance (after St. John Chrysostom)
Read more: A Sermon on Repentance (after St. John Chrysostom)This sermon was written by Fr. John Parker, Rector of Holy Ascension Orthodox Church in Mount Pleasant, SC. It is modeled on the well known and beloved Paschal homily of St. John Chrysostom. It offers an interesting echo of the end of the Fast here at its beginning. A recording of Fr. Thomas Hopko reading […]
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The Journey to Repentance
Read more: The Journey to RepentanceOne of my favorite books comes from the last years of the Soviet Union. It is the story of Tatiana Goricheva, a member of the “intelligentsia” and a Soviet-era dissident. Her book, Talking About God Is Dangerous, offers fascinating insights into both a period of time and the period of a human soul’s conversion by […]
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By the Waters of Babylon
Read more: By the Waters of BabylonA traditional hymn from the Lenten season. By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. Alleluia. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. Alleluia. For there they that had taken us captive required of us a song; and they that had carried us away required […]
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Why Does God Sing?
Read more: Why Does God Sing?A comment was posted this past weekend about prayer and singing (or “chanting”). This article represents some earlier thoughts I have written on the topic. Over the course of this next week I will be largely engaged in another writing task and will only be able to monitor the blog once or twice a day. […]
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The Fox And Elder Paisios
Read more: The Fox And Elder PaisiosElder Paisios said: Often we see a person and we say a couple spiritual words to him and he converts. Later we say, “Ah, I saved someone.” I believe that the person who has the disposition and goodness within him, if he doesn’t convert from what we say, would convert from the sight of a […]
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