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Thirty-First Day of Christmas Advent, COME EMMANUEL, GOD WITH US! (Part I)

12/15/2015

In more ways than one, we are waiting in darkness. Isaiah prophesied Jesus’ birth, saying, “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light” (Isaiah 9:2). Yet, the darkness will never totally go away. I’ve worked long enough in ministry to know that moral evil isn’t going to disappear, but the Gospel offers something much more subtle and helpful: “the light shines on the inside of the darkness, and the darkness will not overcome

Twenty-Fifth Day of Christmas Advent, Meditation: Emmanuel

12/09/2015

Meditation: Why Did He Come? This Word who now becomes flesh is the very same God before Whom the Seraphim in the vision of Isaiah covered their faces with their wings and exclaimed in fear and trembling: “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord Sabaoth!” The creature did not dare to look up. Such was the overpowering greatness of God. No man could see God and live. It is this transcendent, unapproachable, unfathomable, mysterious Word who

Fourteenth Day of Christmas Advent: THE FEAST OF ST. ANDREW (November 30)

11/28/2014

When you saw the God so longed-for walking the earth, O First-called beholder of God, you called out to your brother: “Simon! We have found the One we have longed for!” To the Savior you cried out like David: “As the hart longs for fountains of water, so my soul longs for you, O Christ God:”(Vespers of the Feast of St. Andrew, fourth hymn of the Lity) ON THE FEAST OF ST. ANDREW (November 30)

Third Tuesday after Pascha, Christ is Risen!

05/06/2014

PASCHA: THE DAY THAT THE LORD HAS MADE (Ps. 118-24), Part I By the Very Reverend Joseph Antypas Christians throughout the world celebrate the Feast of the Resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. On the day of the Resurrection, we give thanks to God who has granted us victory through Jesus Christ, our Lord, and put an end to the power of sin, which brought death to our Lord. Jesus Christ is the

The Sixth Wednesday of Great Lent

04/09/2014

Courage and Humility Defeat Death Isidore said: ‘The one who is faithful to God ought not to trust in God’s own faithfulness: nor should the one who sins against God despair of God’s mercy. In the heart of both are hope and fear side by side: hope of forgiveness which inspires courage, and fear of punishment which rouses humility. ‘It is necessary that the penitent never feel secure with regard to their sin, because such

The Second Day of Christmas: The Synaxis of the Ever-Virgin Mary (Part I)

12/26/2013

The gospels teach and the liturgy proclaims that Jesus Christ was born on earth from the Virgin Mary. According to the “mind of Christ” which is given to believers by the indwelling of God’s Holy Spirit (see 1 Cor 2), it is evident that it could not be otherwise. The reason is simple. Jesus is the Son of God. God is His Father from all eternity. If there is anything unique, original, totally unprecedented in

Thirty-Sixth Day of Christmas Advent: God Is With Us! (Part II)

12/20/2013

Behold My servant, whom I uphold, My chosen, in whom My soul delights; I have put My Spirit upon him, he will bring forth justice to the nations. He will not cry or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street; a bruised reed he will not break, and a dimly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice. He will not fail or be discouraged till he

Thirty-Fifth Day of Christmas Advent: God Is With Us! (Part I)

12/19/2013

The vigil services of Christmas and Epiphany begin with the chanting of great compline, at the heart of which is the solemn singing of the canticle from the prophet Isaiah. God is with us! Understand all nations, And submit yourselves, For God is with us! Hear this, even to the farthest bounds of the earth. Submit yourselves, O mighty ones; If you rise up again in your might, You will be again overthrown. The

Eighth Day of Christmas Advent: Seeing They Do Not See

11/22/2013

If we do not come, we will never see. But it is not enough to come. We also must see. There were many on the earth when Jesus came, but they did not see Him as the Son of God and Savior of the world. And there are many who come to the Church and still do not see. The words apply to them as to those about whom Jesus spoke when He taught them

The Untamable Textbook and Its Handouts: Ruminations on Scripture—Tradition Relationship (Part III)

10/09/2013

REV. DR. EUGEN J. PENTIUC Just prior to the first powerful fiat (Genesis 1:3, “Let there be … “), we are informed rather abruptly of some enigmatic realities whose origins are unexplained. “Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with God’s Spirit hovering over the waters” (Genesis 1:2). According to the Priestly author, “darkness;’ “deep” and “water” were neither created by God nor had any existence of themselves. In

Archive

Thirty-First Day of Christmas Advent, COME EMMANUEL, GOD WITH US! (Part I)

Twenty-Fifth Day of Christmas Advent, Meditation: Emmanuel

Fourteenth Day of Christmas Advent: THE FEAST OF ST. ANDREW (November 30)

Third Tuesday after Pascha, Christ is Risen!

The Sixth Wednesday of Great Lent

The Second Day of Christmas: The Synaxis of the Ever-Virgin Mary (Part I)

Thirty-Sixth Day of Christmas Advent: God Is With Us! (Part II)

Thirty-Fifth Day of Christmas Advent: God Is With Us! (Part I)

Eighth Day of Christmas Advent: Seeing They Do Not See

The Untamable Textbook and Its Handouts: Ruminations on Scripture—Tradition Relationship (Part III)

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