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Continue reading →: Transforming the Other Into Eternity: Marriage as Sacrament
Can marriage heal the individual from being consumed by the self? Does marriage extend into eternity? Are these the same question? To move from time to eternity is to enter into the Life of the Trinity where all things moves from the self to the “Other” as the center of…
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Continue reading →: Judge Nothing Before Its Appointed Time
https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/04/22/101183-venerable-vitalius-of-gaza Saint Vitalius, a monk of the monastery of Saint Seridus, arrived in Alexandria when Saint John the Merciful (November 12) was Patriarch of Alexandria in the 7th century. When he was sixty years old, undertook an extraordinary task: he wrote down from memory the names of all the prostitutes…
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Continue reading →: Healing into a Person
This week I have been reflecting on what brought me into the Orthodox Church. The Church lacked anything characteristic of a western church that I was used to – no list of doctrines to compare to a denomination or non-denominational church and no worship band to play with. At the…
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Continue reading →: What is Communion?
“If we say we have koinonia with Him and walk in the darkness we lie and do not practice the truth.” (1 John 6) Last week I wrote about my talk with Matt and Chu and our innate desire for communion as our true salvation. That’s a bold claim. What…
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Continue reading →: Communion Over Carbonara
This weekend my parents and I traveled up to Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho to spend some time with my sister and her family. On Sunday I went to church with Matt, a friend from Pocatello and was blessed to listen to him teach about Mormonism in his Sunday school class.…
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Continue reading →: AI and the Quest for Ultimate Truth: the Transfiguration of Creation
I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement. But the angel said to me, “Why did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that…
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Continue reading →: Words to worship to :words: to new worship.
Bless the LORD oh my soul, oh my soul, worship his holy name. In Christianity’s struggle to be united, we have lost much of our holy language. We no longer sing songs for the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, three in one and blessed Trinity. Contemporary worship is inspired by…
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Continue reading →: Our Offering of Peace
Today is the Feast for the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple, when Saint Simeon held Christ in his arms and declared, “Lord, now let your servant depart in peace, according to your word; for my eyes have seen your salvation which you have prepared in the presence of…
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Continue reading →: Laying Aside Old Garments: Freedom as Healing
For anything unchangeable is not us. The soul is healed as she lays aside garment after garment and “presents herself naked and pure in spirit to the vision of God in a divine vigil.” – Hans Urs Von Balthasar commenting on Saint Gregory of Nyssa I have been reflecting on…
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