February 13, 2022 As we begin to approach Lent the Church has provided us with texts to lead the way into this holy season of renewal. This Gospel is the first. Jesus is presenting a parable, a story whose details aren’t meant to be taken literally but whose larger point is meant to be taken … Continue reading February 12, 2022
Category: Lent
All Earthly Cares…
To realize that your cares are earthly, and that they will not and cannot accompany you into eternity is already a revelation. “Dust you are, and to dust you return” the priest will pronounce at your burial. All that is earthly shall remain in the earth. That includes cares you consider so momentous that your entire focus … Continue reading All Earthly Cares…
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In Lent…
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Welcome Chreasters…
About this time of year (Orthodox Holy Week) we start seeing people in church who seem unfamiliar. Some, of course, are people looking in to Orthodoxy. Because the Western and Eastern Holy Weeks are often on a different calendar people from other Christian communities interested in the Faith will take advantage of the opportunity to … Continue reading Welcome Chreasters…
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An FYI…
Hat tip to Frederica Matthewes-Green
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I Was Hoping…
for a perfect Lent, you know, the kind where everything lined up just as it was supposed to be, the food, the services, the plans for doing this and that. Then life intervened. There was family to take care of, extra hours at work, health issues of my own, snow storms, the list goes on. … Continue reading I Was Hoping…
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A Prayer…
Prayer at Daybreak Eternal King without beginning, You who are before all worlds, my Maker, Who have summoned all things from non-being into this life: bless this day that You, in Your inscrutable goodness, give to me. By the power of Your blessing enable me at all times in this coming day to speak and … Continue reading A Prayer…
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The World We Live In…
is not the real world. Don't get me wrong, its not an illusion its just not the world as God intends it. There is a brokenness in it that has distorted it from its original design, purpose, and reality and so there is a kind of unreality, a sense of it being skewed, that permeates … Continue reading The World We Live In…
The Beautiful Path 