Glory to God For All Things

Tag: Hades and Hell

  • Preaching to the Dead

    The Orthodox mark Holy Saturday (the day before Christ’s Resurrection) as the day in which He descends to the dead and preaches to the departed spirits (1 Peter 3:18-19). There is a long history of wonderful sermons on this topic. St. Cyril of Alexandria (early 5th century) says: “For having destroyed hell and opened the impassable…

  • The Geography of Heaven and Hell

    I noticed tonight in a Facebook discussion a reference to this article – thus I thought a reprint might be timely. I continue to be amazed at the literalism that infects the minds of many Christians. Just because Scripture uses the language of geography to describe something does not at all mean that we should…

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  2. Thank you P. Stephen for this very important text. Something to meditate on again and again… Forgive me, but I’d…

  3. Father, speaking of using words differently, I was coming around to the idea that “nous” is synonymous with “soul” in…

  4. The Grace that comes from truthful participation in the Sacraments of the Church even as one reposes is beyond most…

  5. Father, to your point addressed to Dee, my husband (a native Greek) always says that to a native speaker, the…

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