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The Eighth Day of Christmas Advent: The Elder of love, forgiveness and discernment

11/22/2022

Published by Pemptousia Partnership, November 22, 2016 Elder Iakovos Tsalikis (5/11/1920-21/11/1991) By Alexandros Christodoulou Our age and today’s culture has, unfortunately moved away from the vision and pursuit of sanctity. The Orthodox faith is based on the presence of the saints. Without these, our Church is on the path towards secularization. Naturally, as we know from Scripture, God alone is holy, and sanctity derives from our relationship with Him, and therefore sanctity is theocentric rather

Psychology as the New Sacrament

10/07/2022

By Fr. Stephen Freeman, September 13, 2016 The creation of the “two-storey universe” was an unintended consequence of the Protestant Reformation. I have recently been enjoying Brad Gregory‘s The Unintended Reformation, in which he traces the various historical currents and ideas that gave rise to the modern secular notion of the world. It is a magisterial treatment, and I recommend it to serious students of history, as well as anyone wanting to better understand our modern

Journey Through Darkness

08/18/2022

By Fr John Breck, November 1, 2007 The disclosure that Mother Teresa spent long years of agony, unable to sense the presence of God, led many people to doubt the sincerity of her public writings and the genuineness of her vocation. Was she a saint, or merely someone like ourselves? Or maybe both? Any doubts that Mother Teresa of Calcutta was a true saint, a genuinely holy person, have been amply, if ironically, dispelled by

[Nativity of] John the Baptist and Forerunner of the Lord

06/24/2022

By Fr. Stephen Freeman, June 22, 2007 [Today is] the feast of the Nativity of the Forerunner of Christ – a feast noted around my household for also being the birthday of my wife (and of her brother). Thus we celebrate and are sometimes slightly distracted from the ecclesiastical meaning of the day. But a family cannot be faulted for the joy it takes in its mother, nor I in my spouse. But I want

People as Liturgical Beings, Part 1

06/07/2022

Published by Pemptousia Partnership, October 23, 2014 By Abbot George Kapsanis of Gregoriou We usually characterize people as rational and independent beings. These attributes are correct enough, but don’t convey human nature in its completeness. Through the liturgical experience, we feel that, more than anything, people are liturgical beings. They were made to serve, to offer themselves and the whole world to God with gratitude, praise and worship, to unite with God, to be sanctified,

The Secular Mind versus the Whole Heart

06/03/2022

By Fr. Stephen Freeman, July 19, 2016 Thinking is among the most misleading things in the modern world, or, to be more precise, thinking about thinking is misleading. For a culture that puts such a great emphasis on materiality, our thinking about thought is decidedly spooky. The philosophy underlying our strangely-constructed modernity is called nominalism (of which there are many formal varieties). It’s imaginary construct of the world consists of decidedly separate objects, united only by our

The Holy and Great Thursday: What Great Thursday Tells Us

04/21/2022

Published by Pemptousia Partnership, April 27, 2016 On our journey to Pascha, we are reminded of the Lord’s desire for unity of his flock, that he wishes us to be as one. The importance of this wish is reflected in the Divine Eucharist because to be in communion with God, we must first be in communion with our fellow man. All of Jesus’ actions on earth teach us how to love our fellow man. As

The Universal Christ: Christ Is Everywhere

02/24/2022

Christ is the eternal amalgam of matter and spirit as one as they hold and reveal one another. Wherever the human and the divine coexist, we have the Christ. Wherever the material and the spiritual coincide, we have the Christ. That includes the material world, the natural world, the animal world (including humans), and moves all the way to the elemental world, symbolized by bread and wine. The Eucharist offers Christians the message in condensed

The Seventh Day of Christmas. The Holy Name.

12/31/2021

By Fr. Stephen Freeman, January 3, 2017 In 1913, a small Russian fleet landed a contingent of soldiers who forcibly removed a group of Russian monks from Mount Athos. This action came at the end of a stormy controversy surrounding the name of God. The monks were known as the Imyaslavsy (“Name worshippers”) and were following ideas that had been promulgated in a text published in 1907. That work, On the Caucasus Mountains, written by the staretz, Schemamonk

The Third Day of Christmas. Feast of the Holy Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen.

12/27/2021

After the pouring forth of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, the fire-bearing words of the Apostles and the signs and wonders that accompanied them inspired many conversions. As soon as the believers had become members of the Body of Christ through holy Baptism, they sold all their goods and laid the proceeds at the Apostles’ feed; then, being free of all worldly ties and interests, they led a life in common, and were of one

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The Eighth Day of Christmas Advent: The Elder of love, forgiveness and discernment

Psychology as the New Sacrament

Journey Through Darkness

[Nativity of] John the Baptist and Forerunner of the Lord

People as Liturgical Beings, Part 1

The Secular Mind versus the Whole Heart

The Holy and Great Thursday: What Great Thursday Tells Us

The Universal Christ: Christ Is Everywhere

The Seventh Day of Christmas. The Holy Name.

The Third Day of Christmas. Feast of the Holy Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen.

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