It’s a motivating power – to adhere to tradition and Tradition; to stay with the mission; to not sway with the times; to not yield to fear, threat, intimidation, and tyrants; to combat betrayal; to be true to oneself and more importantly to God.
The Story of Christianity by David Bentley Hart The Roman empire of the West came to an end in the fifth century; but the Roman empire – as a continuous legal, cultural and political institution – persisted in the East for another millennium, and its capital, the ‘New Rome’ of Constantinople, was the seat of Roman…
Had God Preserved the Bethlehem Infants, They Could Have Crucified Him The Lord sometimes arranges things so that when a person appeals to someone with a request, in the end he receives something completely different, but much more important. That happened to me: now I don’t even remember why I called one of the most…
“There’s a false sense of security in passivity. You think that you can’t get into too much trouble—but really, every passive decision leads to a slow but steady loss of chips.” Source.
When you have a child you realize you’re “in it for the long haul.” And no matter how much the parent wants to “define the child,” it’s the child who brings out the definition of the parents.
Models of Fidelity to Truth Today the Holy Orthodox Church, as you know, glorifies the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women, for which reason this Sunday is called the “Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women.” Yesterday [at the vigil service] we already spoke of how the Myrrh-Bearing Women were, in essence, the first heralds of Christ’s Resurrection and, in…
Yes, they are real. In the relics of the saints the Lord Christ has provided us with saving fountains which in many ways pour out benefactions and gush with fragrant ointment (the epithet myroblytus, or “gushing ointment,” is applied to certain saints whose relics exude a fragrant oil). And let no one disbelieve. For, if…
Just notes; not the actual verbatim homily but the gist of it. Christ is Risen! We have heard the Gospel reading today from John. It is a story of the Resurrection, proof of the bodily resurrection. You may recall that when Mary Magdaline encountered Jesus on Pascha, she was instructed not to touch Him. In…
Sigismund Christian Hubert Goetze, 1866-1939 1904 Oil on canvas Source: The Literary Digest 29/10 (1890): 292 According to an article on the painting in The Literary Digest, “‘At the exhibition of the Royal Academy in London, the great canvas by Sigismund Goetze … has created an artistic sensation.’ It is declared to be a ‘powerful and terribly realistic…