Reading From St. Mark The Ascetic “Do not claim to have acquired virtue unless you have suffered affliction, for without affliction virtue has not been tested” ~ on The Spiritual Law Two Hundred Texts, The Philokalia Vol 1 Reading from The Book of Job “I know that you can […]
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Reading from Isaiah Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the […]
Boy, do we feel silly? We had Emmanuel, God-with-us, here with us in the flesh, raising the dead and healing the crippled and insane, walking on water, commanding storms to cold chill (relax), turning water into wine, and feeding thousands of fans and supporters on less than a picnic […]
Great and Holy Saturday in the Byzantine Rite: Intellectual elites, so-called, in what we are presently calling the early modern era, flaunted their boldness by proclaiming things like “God is dead”. Personally, I am skeptical that there was any high-minded philosophy behind this provocateuring; it is true, though, that […]
Today is Great and Holy Friday in the Byzantine Rite: To our mind, tonight’s meditations are upon our darkest encounters with sin and evil. First, we are outraged at Judas’ betrayal of Our Lord, and at the Sanhedrin’s corrupt will to destroy Him, and at the callous perversity of […]