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What Do You See Outside Your Window – Evil in a One-Storey Universe
Read more: What Do You See Outside Your Window – Evil in a One-Storey UniverseA question was put several days back about what would be said about “evil in a one-storey universe?” Of course, as I’ve thought about the question, my simplest conclusion is to wonder how one would give an account of evil in a two-storey universe. For it seems that those who have imagined the universe as […]
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The Fullness of the Cross of Christ
Read more: The Fullness of the Cross of ChristIn writing about our union with Christ I offered the following as the response to a question. It seemed to me, worth a posting of its own, though it be short. I have, however, added a few thoughts to it. There are many ways of which to speak of Christ’s work on the Cross, all of […]
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Communion with Christ and the Union of Marriage
Read more: Communion with Christ and the Union of MarriageOne of the clearest images of the relationship we have with Christ is that of marriage between a man and a woman. St. Paul makes reference to this in Ephesians 5: So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated […]
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What Does It Mean to Have Communion with God?
Read more: What Does It Mean to Have Communion with God?I am sure that the title of this post seems obvious and as though I had pulled a question out of a catechism. And yet, my experience tells me that things that seem as though they ought to be obvious often are not, particularly the more basic and fundamental they are in our life as […]
Conversion, Knowledge of God, Orthodox Christianity, The Journey of Faith, The Sacraments, Union with God
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Knowing the Personal God
Read more: Knowing the Personal GodThe word personal has a commonplace meaning in English. If I have personal knowledge of an event, it means that I was actually there and saw what took place. Personal knowledge of another person, means that we have actually met, spent time together and shared information. Difficulty arises when this commonplace use of the phrase […]
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Thy Word Have I Hid In My Heart
Read more: Thy Word Have I Hid In My HeartA dear friend and parishioner whose Blog, Highways in the Heart, is noted on my blogroll, is as great a fan of the Psalms as anyone I know. She has probably committed over 90 to memory – not a small feat in our world today. It was the tradition (and still required by canons) that […]
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