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Prayers By the Lake XCV – Children and Saints
Read more: Prayers By the Lake XCV – Children and SaintsXCV Children and saints cling to You, O Lord, the rest rebel against You. Children and saints are the boundary between the Kingdom of existence and the shadow of nonexistence.1 Guardians call themselves parents and cast Your children off crags into chasms. Guardians presume that they are parents, and so they […]
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Raising A Saint
Read more: Raising A SaintMost 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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Pray for the Gulf Coast
Read more: Pray for the Gulf CoastI have a daughter and her husband (Khouria Kathryn and Fr. Philip Rogers) who live in Lafayette, LA. They and some other parishioners are riding out Gustav in the home of a parishioner that is “hurricane proof”. That entire area of the gulf suffered so greatly when struck by Katrina – please keep all in […]
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Global Cooling
Read more: Global CoolingThe following is a reprint of an article I published back in December. Thought I’d offer it again. The reference to “Global Cooling” is a play on Kalomiros’ description of the coldness of the modern heart. I have been listening to a tape of the talk, “The River of Fire,” given by Dr. Alexander Kalomiros […]
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How Simple Should Christianity Be?
Read more: How Simple Should Christianity Be?There is a tendency in our modern world to make things as simple as possible. We hide the complexities behind a keyboard (I don’t know how my computer works – or not very well) or we treat things that seem complex as unnecessary obfuscations. This same drive to simplify was very much alive in the […]
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He Shall Exalt the Humble and Meek
Read more: He Shall Exalt the Humble and MeekAll heaven and earth exalt the humble Saints, and the Lord grants them the glory of being with Him. ‘Where I am, there shall also my servant be.’ The humility of the Mother of God is greater than any, wherefore all generations on earth exalt her, and all the heavenly hosts serve her; and this […]
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Prayers by the Lake – XIX – by St. Nikolai of Zicha
Read more: Prayers by the Lake – XIX – by St. Nikolai of ZichaXIX Amidst the racket and ridicule of people my prayer rises toward You, O my King and my Kingdom. Prayer is incense, that ceaselessly censes my soul and raises it toward You, and draws You toward her. Stoop down, my King, so that I may whisper to You my most precious secret, my most secret […]
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Truth and Existence: Conclusions to be Drawn
Read more: Truth and Existence: Conclusions to be DrawnReflecting on the previous posting on Truth and Existence, there are a number of conclusions that can be drawn for our lives and our communion with God: 1. God is generous. He does not begrudge existence to anything that exists. Even the devil is not begrudged his existence. 2. This generosity of God is not […]
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Truth and Existence
Read more: Truth and ExistencePerhaps one of the greatest contributions of Orthodox theology to contemporary thought is the correlation between truth and existence. I am not well-enough versed in writings outside of Orthodoxy to know whether this correlation is made by others as well – I have to drink the water from my own cistern. This understanding has been […]
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Facing the Consequences
Read more: Facing the ConsequencesSome thoughts on a comment by Archbishop DMITRI of Dallas: Commenting on the stories of the Transfiguration in Matthew, Mark and Luke, Archbishop DMITRI of Dallas observed that each of the stories contains the phrase “coming down” in reference to the disciples’ descent from the mount of glory into the world of daily ministry. In […]
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Dee, I think you meant “Elijah” rather than Ezekiel. I’ll correct it if you say so. But, Moses (the Lawgiver)…