Wisdom has built her house, she has set up her seven pillars. / She has slaughtered her beasts, she has mixed her wine, she has also set her table. / She has sent out her maids to call from the highest places in the town, / “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” To…
6. I was astounded at the words of this raving creature and asked her about her father, wishing to know her name, and she said; ‘I have no single parentage; my conception is mixed and indefinite. Satiety nourishes me, time makes me grow, and bad habit entrenches me. He who keeps this habit will never…
Let’s look at the 45th chapter of the work of St. Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain, Unseen Warfare, which speaks of condemning others. Condemnation is a very pleasant occupation for us. However, we must pay attention to this problem, because condemnation is a manifestation of our egotism. If we mercilessly and severely judge our brothers,…
Step 18 On insensibility, that is, deadening of the soul and the death of the mind before the death of the body. 1. Insensibility both in the body and in the spirit is deadened feeling, which from long sickness andnegligence lapses into loss of feeling. 2. Insensibility is negligence that has become habit; benumbed thought;…
1. Poverty is the resignation of cares, life without anxiety, an unencumbered traveller, alienation from sorrow, fidelity to the commandments. 2. A poor monk is lord of the world. He has entrusted his cares to God and by faith has obtained all men as his slaves. He will not tell his need to man, and…
“The world was created for the sake of the Church.”
Today’s culture wars are framed as a contest between Left & Right, but it’s about epistemology more than politics. On one side we have those who value evidence and reason, and on the other we have those who lay claim to knowledge via emotion and drama. Claire Lehmann @clairlemon …and the culture wars are present…
The parable of the publican and the Pharisee is Christ’s call to think and to uproot the Pharisaism that lives in each of us. The Church hastens to our aid. On the first Sunday preparatory to Great Lent, the Church says to us in Her Divine services: Come, learn from both the Pharisee and from…
I would like to thank all parishioners, visitors, and friends for joining us today. Christ is in our midst! [He is and ever shall be!] Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. Amen. Today begins the period of time known as the Lenten Triodion – the spiritually preparatory time…
“In the consubstantial, undivided Holy Trinity, there are three distinct ‘aspects’ of Being: The Hypostasis (Person), the Essence (Nature), and the Energy (Act). Despite the absolute simplicity and non-compositeness of the Divine Being, each of these three ‘aspects’ remains no less absolutely irreducible to the others. Neither does the identity between the Hypostasis and the…