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In the Temple of Broken Hearts(0)
The Way, through tests, introspection, and suffering, is hard and has many pitfalls. There is a strong temptation to look for happiness and consolation right from the beginning. If we experience disillusionment or disappointment, then we might start fearing that our journey to God might turn into torment and punishment…
The Lost Gospel of Mary
There are many, many ancient Christian texts that are fully orthodox: biographies, commentaries, letters, sermons, debates with non-believers… These works got “lost” mostly because we forgot them—our “family memory” fades after a few decades or centuries. Contemporary Western Christians have a bad case of spiritual amnesia. I’m hoping to put a few of the more appealing and worthy works back on the shelf…
Hallowe’en: An Orthodox approach
Every year, on Hallowe’en, I sit on the front porch of my house with a bowl of candy, a box of beeswax candles, and a large icon for the Feast of All Saints. Every child who comes to the house gets a piece of candy, and may also light a candle and place it before the icon.
When Tradition Fractures
St. Augustine Lives on in the Great Theological Conflicts of Today.
When it comes to St. Augustine, the great fifth-century bishop of Hippo, Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox all have a similar reaction: none of us quite know what to do with him. Or at least that was my impression, based on the conference I attended at Fordham University last June.
More in this category:
- Perichoresis: God and His mother
- Monasticism in the 21st Century
- September 24: The Feast of Saint Silouan
- The Monastic Call
- Under the Heaven Tree
- The Way into the Kingdom of Heaven
- Deacons and bishops at the end of the first century
- Personal Experience Of The Holy Spirit According To The Greek Fathers
- Call no man “Father”
- Sola Scriptura
- Why did Christ become Man? (Athanasius, 318AD)
- Facing up to Mary
- Original sin according to St Paul
- The Pain of the Earth: A Cry for Change