Let us be mindful of the example that Holy Andrew, brother of Holy Peter, lay before us who hope and trust in the Name of the Lord. With his heart ablaze with the passion and fire of the Holy Spirit, Andrew traveled and proclaimed the new covenant with such […]
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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 […]
Today is Great and Holy Thursday, in the Byzantine Rite: This ovoid sphere Earth is over four and a half billion years old, by the way we track time. Human beings derive from primates and share one or more common ancestors with great apes including chimpanzees and gorillas. Sanitary […]