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The Second Thursday of Great Lent: The Presumptuous Bat & More True than the Truth?

03/24/2016

The Presumptuous Bat The light allows the eye to distinguish, for example, gold from silver, copper from iron and tin. Moreover, it allows us to note the difference between colours and shapes, between the plants and between the animals. But only for those who have sound eyesight. The blind gain no advantage from the rays of the sun: they do not even see the brightness of the light! There are people who do not want

The Second Tuesday of Great Lent: Freedom or Responsibility & When We Speak of Truth and when Truth Speaks for Itself

03/22/2016

Freedom or Responsibility God created human beings to have free will. He honoured them with reasoning and wisdom and placed before their eyes the choice between life and death. If by their free choice they walk the way of life, they can live forever. But if by choosing evil they tread the road to death, they will be punished in eternity. The features of our human nature that we cannot alter deserve neither praise nor

Truth and the Times: The Culture Conundrum (Part I)

09/18/2013

An Interview with His Eminence Metropolitan Savas of Pittsburgh PRAXIS: Your Eminence, you’ve acquired something of a reputation for your openness to popular culture. How do you reconcile your role as a bishop of the Greek Orthodox Church, a Church that prides itself on its fidelity to tradition, with your willingness to engage the rapidly changing and generally irreverent world of pop culture? METROPOLITAN SAVAS: You say “change” as if it’s a bad thing! I

Right Living and Right Speaking

09/10/2013

Right Living and Right Speaking To be a witness for God is to be a living sign of God’s presence in the world. What we live is more important than what we say, because the right way of living always leads to the right way of speaking. When we forgive our neighbors from our hearts, our hearts will speak forgiving words. When we are grateful, we will speak grateful words, and when we are hopeful

THE LAMP OF THE BODY (Part I)

06/26/2013

YOUR EYE IS THE LAMP OF YOUR BODY; WHEN YOUR EYE IS SOUND, YOUR WHOLE BODY IS FULL OF LIGHT; BUT WHEN IT IS NOT SOUND, YOUR BODY IS FULL OF DARKNESS. —LUKE 11:34 We think the world would be saved if only we could generate larger quantities of goodwill and tolerance. That’s false. What will save the world is not goodwill and tolerance but clear thinking. Of what use is it to be tolerant

THE LENTEN PRAYER OF ST. EPHREM THE SYRIAN (Part I)

04/08/2013

Of all Lenten hymns and prayers, one short prayer can be termed the Lenten prayer. Tradition ascribes it to one of the great teachers of spiritual life—St. Ephrem the Syrian. Here is its text: O Lord and Master of my life! Take from me the spirit of sloth, faint-heartedness, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience, and love to Thy servant. Yea, O Lord and King! Grant

Forgive me. More Virtue, More Kindness Today.

02/06/2013

Forgive me Have mercy on me, God, according to Your great mercy (Psalms 50:1). On my knees before You, CrucifiedLord, I beg for mercy, for this grace. I’ve sinned. Yet again I’ve fallen. I’ve done exactly the opposite of what Your holy will asked of me. I tasted sin. Its bitter, oppressive taste lingers on my lips. I am lost. I measure the height of Your holiness against the abyss of my corrupt existence, and

Become Like Children (Part I)

05/08/2012

TRULY, I SAY TO YOU, UNLESS YOU TURN AND BECOME LIKE CHILDREN, YOU WILL NEVER ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. —MATTHEW 18:3 The first quality that strikes one when one looks into the eyes of a child is its innocence: its lovely inability to lie or wear a mask or pretend to be anything other than what it is. In this the child is exactly like the rest of Nature. A dog is a dog;

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The Second Thursday of Great Lent: The Presumptuous Bat & More True than the Truth?

The Second Tuesday of Great Lent: Freedom or Responsibility & When We Speak of Truth and when Truth Speaks for Itself

Truth and the Times: The Culture Conundrum (Part I)

Right Living and Right Speaking

THE LAMP OF THE BODY (Part I)

THE LENTEN PRAYER OF ST. EPHREM THE SYRIAN (Part I)

Forgive me. More Virtue, More Kindness Today.

Become Like Children (Part I)

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