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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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Carolina in my Mind
Read more: Carolina in my MindSome readers might appreciate the fact that I was born in South Carolina. For some other readers, I think especially of our Europeans and others across the internet globe, South Carolina means little. It is “Deep South” in the U.S., with its own distinctives. Perhaps one of its striking characteristics is that it has a […]
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Reflections on Florovsky
Read more: Reflections on FlorovskyThe following is from my earlier post of Florovsky on Ecumenism: The entire western experience of temptation and fall must be creatively examined and transformed; all that “European melancholy” (as Dostoevsky termed it) and all those long centuries of creative history must be borne. Only such a compassionate co-experience provides a reliable path toward the […]
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With Apologies to my Readers
Read more: With Apologies to my ReadersThere really are no shortcuts – even in something as trivial as a blog. My last two posts have been pulled – one a small quote from Fr. Sophrony, added last night before bedtime (because you have to add something), the other written today when I was not entirely certain of what I wanted to […]
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The Ecumenical Vision of Fr. Georges Florovsky
Read more: The Ecumenical Vision of Fr. Georges FlorovskyFr. Georges Florovsky remains, in my mind, one of the most neglected of modern Orthodox scholars. His vision of the place of Orthodox theology in relation to the West was instrumental in the birth of the ecumenical movement – which has sadly lost that vision. The cruciform nature of his ecumenical vision exonerate him from […]
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“My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, he stands behind our wall; He is looking through…
Lynne, I like the open-door metaphor, too, perhaps because many icons depict the saint’s entire body—i.e., standing at the door.…
When I first heard about icons, many years ago, from my Protestant days, they were described as “Windows to Heaven.”…
Father When I first understood that the saints pray for us, one of my first thoughts was to see if…
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Lynne, There’s no particular dogma of the Church that describes icons as “windows” into heaven. So, I’m not sure where…