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The Fourth Friday of Great Lent: Sin is in no Way the Fault of our Nature &God does not Judge by Quantity

04/08/2016

Sin is in no Way the Fault of our Nature ‘I am the victim of violence in my nature; you say. ‘I love Christ, yet my nature compels me to sin.’ If you were in fact compelled to sin, if you were the victim of violence, then you would be forgiven for it. On the other hand, if you sin through idleness, do not expect forgiveness. But let us look at the question a moment

The Fourth Monday of Great Lent: The Secret of the Peace we need & It is Easy to Pass from Contemplation to Action but not Vice Versa

04/04/2016

The Secret of the Peace we need Those who are engaged in spiritual warfare must always keep their hearts tranquil. Only then can the mind sift the impulses it receives and store in the treasure house of the memory those that are good and come from God, while rejecting altogether those that are perverse and devilish. When the sea is calm, the fishermen’s eyes can see the movements of the fish deep down, so that

Conscience, a Spark of Life

01/11/2016

When God made human beings, he put in them a kind of divine faculty, more alive and splendid than a spark, to illuminate the spirit and show it the difference between good and evil. It is the conscience with that law which is part of its nature. The patriarchs and all the saints were able to please God by obeying the law of conscience. But people trampled on it and muddied it with their sinfulness.

Forgive and You Will Be Forgiven

02/17/2015

FORGIVENESS SUNDAY Let us all make haste to humble the flesh by abstinence, as we set out upon the God-given course of the holy Fast; and with prayer and tears let us seek our Lord and Savior. Laying aside all memories of evil, let us cry aloud, “We have sinned against You, Christ our King; save us Like the people of Nineveh in days of old, and in Your compassion make us sharers in Your

ON OBEDIENCE

08/28/2014

Obedience is another indispensable implement in the struggle against our selfish will. With obedience you cut off your physical members the better to be able to serve with the spiritual, says St. John Climacus. And again, obedience is the grave of your own will, but from it rises humility. You must remember that you have of your own free will given yourself over to slavery, and let the cross you wear around your neck be

God and Caesar (Part III): The Sacrament of our Neighbor

08/19/2014

The essence of God the Trinity is love, so personal existence directed towards God can only be existence in communion. ‘By this it may be seen who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not do right is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother’ (1 John 3.10). In St Matthew’s overpowering portrayal of the Judgement, Christ says to those who are truly

ON THE SINS OF OTHERS AND ONE’S OWN

07/09/2014

Now that you have thus become aware of your own wretchedness, your insufficiency, and your wickedness, you call upon the Lord as did the Publican (Luke 18: 13): God, be merciful to me a sinner. And you add: Behold, I am far worse than the Publican, for I cannot resist eyeing the Pharisee askance, and my heart is proud and says: I thank Thee that I am not like him! But, say the saints, now

The Third Thursday of Great Lent

03/20/2014

Childishness or the Spirit of Childhood? Jesus says: ‘Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of God.’ [Luke 18:16] If that is how things are, growing up means, loss. Why should I desire to grow up if adulthood deprives me of the right to the kingdom? Can you explain why God should have given us physical development which favours vice, not virtue? And for what

Who is My Neighbor?

02/26/2014

Who is My Neighbor? “Love your neighbor as yourself” the Gospel says (Matthew 22:38). But who is my neighbor? We often respond to that question by saying, “My neighbors are all the people I am living with on this earth, especially the sick, the hungry, the dying, and all who are in need.” But this is not what Jesus says. When Jesus tells the story of the good Samaritan (see Luke 10:29-37) to answer the

Malicious Gossip and Passing Judgment

02/20/2014

Let us begin by trying to understand the nature of malicious gossip and passing judgment on others. “Malicious gossip is to talk about your neighbor’s sins and mistakes, for example, to say that someone lied or became angry or committed fornication … Saying any of this is denigration, that is to say, speaking maliciously against somebody, talking maliciously about his sin. Passing judgment is when you condemn the actual person, saying he is a liar,

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The Fourth Friday of Great Lent: Sin is in no Way the Fault of our Nature &God does not Judge by Quantity

The Fourth Monday of Great Lent: The Secret of the Peace we need & It is Easy to Pass from Contemplation to Action but not Vice Versa

Conscience, a Spark of Life

Forgive and You Will Be Forgiven

ON OBEDIENCE

God and Caesar (Part III): The Sacrament of our Neighbor

ON THE SINS OF OTHERS AND ONE’S OWN

The Third Thursday of Great Lent

Who is My Neighbor?

Malicious Gossip and Passing Judgment

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