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Alone – You Are Not
Read more: Alone – You Are Not“Alone – You Are Not” This is not a quote from Yoda. It is a simple statement concerning the nature of our existence. The fullness of existence is only found in communion, a mutual indwelling in which our lives are known and experienced not just in their self-contained form, but in their Interrelation to others […]
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Following a Conversation with a Tree
Read more: Following a Conversation with a Tree“Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which […]
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The Despair of Modernity – It Might Not Be All Bad
Read more: The Despair of Modernity – It Might Not Be All BadIt is a commonplace in the Fathers to describe despair or sadness as the result of failing to get what we want. It sounds quite simple, but it cuts to the very heart of our sadness. There is a melancholy of our age that is born from the expectations of modernity. The mantra of progress […]
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The God Claws – The Therapeutic Work of the Holy Spirit
Read more: The God Claws – The Therapeutic Work of the Holy SpiritIn a graphic scene of redemption, CS Lewis depicts a young boy who has unfortunately been turned into a dragon. The boy (Eustace) is largely at fault in this transformation – something which brings his life to a miserable and seemingly unsolvable conclusion. He is, however, confronted by God in the figure of Aslan, the […]
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The Sweetest Name of Jesus
Read more: The Sweetest Name of JesusSome years back, I was given instruction on saying the “Jesus Prayer” by Archimandrite Zacharias of Essex. We spoke about the form of the prayer, and the pace it should be prayed. But it was his final instruction that touched my heart: “Pay particular attention to the Name when you pray it.” It is, after […]
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The Sweet Smoke of Prayer
Read more: The Sweet Smoke of PrayerLet my prayer arise in Your sight as incense, the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. Psalm 141 My parish has a fairly steady stream of visitors from outside the Orthodox experience. Among their first questions are ones concerning the use of incense. There is virtually no Orthodox service that does not […]
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What Happens When We Play (Pray)
Read more: What Happens When We Play (Pray)In my previous article I compared children’s use of play to the place of ritual words and actions in the life of the Church. I absolutely did not mean to imply that one thing is like the other. I mean to say clearly that they are very much the same thing. And I say this […]
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Playing with God
Read more: Playing with GodThere are things that children understand instinctively. And the things that children know and understand are worth consideration. They have much to teach us. Among the most natural things children do is play. Depending on how you define play, it is among the first activities in which we engage. It comes to dominate the lives […]
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What Do We Need? Love Amidst the Clutter
Read more: What Do We Need? Love Amidst the ClutterI’ve been slowly making my way through the book, An Empire of Things. It’s subtitle, How We Became a World of Consumers from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries, describes the fascinating journey outlined in the text. It tracks the gradual evolution of the modern world as seen in our acquisition of stuff. The average […]
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Mary as the “Secret Joy” of the Church
Read more: Mary as the “Secret Joy” of the ChurchFr. Alexander Schmemann wrote: …When investigating the history of Mariological piety, one discovers that it is rooted not in any special revelation but, primarily, in the experience of liturgical worship. In other terms, it is not a theological reflection on Mary that gave birth to her veneration: it is the liturgy as the experience of […]
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Matthew, That’s pretty much the case, sadly.
Scott, The absence that you feel is, in one respect, a testimony to the presence of communion. It’s a hunger…
Thanks so much for sharing a bit of your journey Scott. I will be praying for you and your family.…
Thank you for this. I have never taken communinion. My mother was brought up Catholic, but rejected it. My father…
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