you desire begins when you live to your highest ideals. Don’t wait for your leaders to make things better. If you want love, peace, justice, freedom, hope, and Faith to triumph live them in your life and the world will change around you.
Words for The Times…
These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” John 16:33
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A Psalm of Hope…
146 (Psalm 145 Orthodox Bible) Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord, O my soul!
2 While I live I will praise the Lord;
I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
3 Do not put your trust in princes,
Nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help.
4 His spirit departs, he returns to his earth;
In that very day his plans perish.
5 Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help,
Whose hope is in the Lord his God,
6 Who made heaven and earth,
The sea, and all that is in them;
Who keeps truth forever,
7 Who executes justice for the oppressed,
Who gives food to the hungry.
The Lord gives freedom to the prisoners.
8 The Lord opens the eyes of the blind;
The Lord raises those who are bowed down;
The Lord loves the righteous.
9 The Lord watches over the strangers;
He relieves the fatherless and widow;
But the way of the wicked He turns upside down.
10 The Lord shall reign forever—
Your God, O Zion, to all generations.
Praise the Lord!
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Powerful Story…
on two deaths from the WWW site “Death to the World“.
After seeing the video of his funeral I was thinking about him. I also experienced the desire to pray for him and I felt a loss that there are so many like him who are slaves to the nihilism that pervades and permeates us as a mode of being in our current world or perhaps more accurately we may state the present nihilism to be quite “natural” and well suited to the Fallen World and an outworking of the continuing spirit of the age opposed to God Incarnate in Christ.
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A Video…
to help the world and Orthodox Christians understand. When you view this one YouTube you can see the whole series.
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A Great Parish Video…
from a website, Byzantine Texas, that you should visit. This is, as the site says, the way to produce a video introducing your church.
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Some Thoughts on the Word “Easter”…
from Mystagogy. Read and reflect.
Many Orthodox Christians insist “Pascha” or any derivative of the word Passover is the only correct name for the celebration of the Resurrection of Christ, among possibly other liturgical words for the feast, but insist the word “Easter” is inpapropriate because it supposedly has pagan origins. Does it truly have pagan origins that would prohibit its use? Or are there in fact justifiable reasons to allow for “Pascha” and “Easter” to both be used with a clean conscience. Since “Pascha” is without controversy, we will examine these things for the word “Easter”.
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Sunday Morning Music…
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An Article…
to help the discerning person understand all the “History Channel” type documentaries about Jesus on TV this time of year. Worth the read.
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A Challenge…
Don’t wage your Christian struggle with sermons and arguments, but with true love. When we argue, others react. When we love people, they are moved and we win them over. When we love we think that we offer something to others, but in reality we are the first to benefit.
Elder Porphyrios
The Beautiful Path 