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What Do You Say When You Turn Out the Light?
Read more: What Do You Say When You Turn Out the Light?From my childhood, I have had a habit of prayer at bedtime – whether formal or informal. There were nights as a child that I prayed with great fervency in fear of what was taking place around me. There were times as a teenager that I prayed with no confidence that anyone was listening. As […]
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The Knowledge of God
Read more: The Knowledge of GodThe knowledge of God, generally spoken of in a very experiential manner, is an absolute foundation in Orthodox theology. Nothing replaces it – no dogmatic formula – no Creed – not even Scripture – though Orthodoxy would see none of these things as separate from the knowledge of God. But the questions I have received […]
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The Beatitudes
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The Elder Sophrony on the Struggle of Prayer
Read more: The Elder Sophrony on the Struggle of PrayerPrayer is infinite creation, the supreme art. Over and over again we experience an eager upsurge towards God, followed only by a falling away from His light. Time and again we are conscious of the mind’s inability to rise to Him. There are moments when we feel ourselves on the verge of insanity. ‘Thou didst […]
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Raising a Saint – St. Silouan on his Father
Read more: Raising a Saint – St. Silouan on his FatherMost of us would be satisfied to raise children who remain faithful believers. It is not always an easy thing and every parent who has such a child should rejoice constantly. There is no method to raise a child to be a saint, for God alone gives the grace that results in the mystery of […]
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Anger and a Father’s Wisdom
Read more: Anger and a Father’s WisdomIt is interesting that in reading the life of St. Silouan of Mt. Athos the figure that stands out most in his life is that of his (unlearned) peasant father. His father was clearly a man of great faith. St. Silouan thought his father to be wiser than many so-called spiritual fathers. The following story […]
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Pray Always
Read more: Pray Always“Prayer is a matter of love. Man expresses love through prayer, and if we pray, it is an indication that we love God. If we do not pray, this indicates that we do not love God, for the measure of our prayer is the measure of our love for God. St. Silouan identifies love for […]
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The Good Anger
Read more: The Good AngerMy attention was recently drawn to the work of Leon Podles on anger, which asserts that anger has a very important role to play in the virtuous life. He contends: Wrath is a necessary and positive part of human nature: “Wrath is the strength to attack the repugnant; the power of anger is actually the […]
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The Fullness of the Age to Come
Read more: The Fullness of the Age to ComeI am fascinated by what the Holy Tradition does with the idea of “fullness” or “fulfillment.” The Church is described as the “fullness of Him that filleth all in all” (Ephesians 1:23). And it is not unusual for Orthodox Christians to express the meaning of Orthodoxy under the rubric of “fullness”: Orthodoxy is the “fullness […]
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Thank you Fr. Stephen. I guess at the end of the day it is a “fullness” versus “thin-ness” issue. Milk…
Dee, We’re asked to bear witness to what we know. The rest is in the hands of God. But I’ve…
Matthew, It’s a very thin theology, unlikely, I fear, to withstand the winds of culture if the winds are blowing…
What do we make, then, of all the evangelicals (for example) who “made a decision” for Christ?
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Matthew, The way I think about it is that thinking, deciding, and cooperating (and other similar things) are themselves part…