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The Choices We Make
Read more: The Choices We MakeOur culture celebrates the ability we have to choose – and so we think a lot about choices. We are told every four years that we get to “choose” our leaders (though the choices given to us might not be suitable in either direction). As I look back and think of my preaching over the […]
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Speaking Ecumenically
Read more: Speaking EcumenicallyA recent note from a young Orthodox acquaintance referred to me as “irenic” in my writings. I was grateful for the description and glad that something I actually intend is also actually conveyed. I learn a lot from other Orthodox bloggers or frequent posters on other sites where the discussions can get heated (I think […]
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More Thoughts on a Metaphor
Read more: More Thoughts on a MetaphorSome metaphors are just that: metaphors. Images that are useful for thinking or working our way through something. They are a roadmap – not the road but the map. The image of Christ’s Descent into Hades, though it provides a metaphor, is more than a metaphor. Christ truly died, truly descended into Hades, truly trampled […]
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Watch Your Metaphors
Read more: Watch Your MetaphorsMetaphors are very important when thinking about any aspect of our salvation. People can sometimes state what they believe as doctrine very precisely without thinking about what their beliefs imply about God, the world, or themselves. Metaphors can work in a very hidden way – particularly those that are referred to as “root metaphors.” A […]
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With Heart and Mind
Read more: With Heart and MindWhen mind and heart are united in prayer and the soul is wholly concentrated in a single desire for God, then the heart grows warm and the light of Christ begins to shine and fills the inward man with peace and joy. We should thank the Lord for everything and give ourselves up to His […]
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Praying with Icons
Read more: Praying with IconsIn one of our recent services (Paschal Vespers as I recall) we had a handfull of visiting Russian Nationals. I’ve noticed this before – it’s sort of a cultural distinction – but the women (they were all female) came in, and stood for extended lengths of time before the icons, as if waiting for something, […]
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The Struggle for Prayer
Read more: The Struggle for PrayerFr. Sophrony relates part of his struggle for prayer and the grace he received to help others. The passage is from On Prayer. …On more than one occasion I felt as if I were crucified on an invisible cross. This would happen on Mt. Athos when I got angry with those who vexed me. My […]
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Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev on the Descent into Hades
Read more: Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev on the Descent into HadesThank you to LadyMacbeth for the lead to the following link. Bishop Alfeyev is an excellent source and worth reading! http://orthodoxeurope.org/page/11/1/5.aspx I commend him to you!
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A Journey through the Heavens
Read more: A Journey through the HeavensNot to be too melodramatic, but I will be traveling today at about 20 to 30,000 feet to the city of Dallas, yes in a airplane., to meet with my Beloved Archbishop Dmitri and fellow Deans of the Diocese of the South. I have a post loaded alreday which should appear around noon. I’ll check […]
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Matthew, When the Enlightenment (a Western phenomenon) began to champion reason (the French revolution, for example, converted Notre Dame Cathedral…