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December 2017

December 05, 2017

The Fate Of The United States: Repent Or Perish

A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor; but he who hates unjust gain...

December 04, 2017

Never Put Your Selfish Desires Above The Good Of Your Neighbor

Abba John said, ‘Our Father, Abba Anthony, said he had never put his own personal...

December 01, 2017

To Teach Others Requires Harmonizing With Them

In the writings of Taoist philosopher Chuang Tzu, we find an interesting conversation. A tutor...

November 2017

November 28, 2017

Christians Must Unite With The Workers Of The World Against The Elite

Throughout Scripture, devastation done to the earth is connected with and seen as a reflection...

November 27, 2017

Christ, Birth-Mother Of Salvation

While we should not limit femininity so that we only think of child birth as...

November 24, 2017

St. Catherine Of Alexandria Stands Glorious In Her Victory Against Her Oppressors

St. Catherine’s Monastery, which resides next to the mountain believed to be Mt. Sinai, serves...

November 22, 2017

Legalistic Condemnation Must Give Way To The Humble Spirit Of Love

Abba Anthony predicted that this Abba Ammonas would make progress in the fear of God....

November 20, 2017

Sick Pilgrim, Wounded Pilgrim

The world is full of abuse. It should not be a surprise, then, that those...

November 16, 2017

Seek Not to Comprehend Virtue, but to be Comprehended by It

St. Gregory the Wonderworker, whose feast is November 17, was, as his name suggests, known...

November 14, 2017

Trump, Cozy With Duterte, Should Serve As A Warning Sign Of Things To Come

In the Philippines, President Duterte has engaged a brutal war against drugs, violating human rights...

November 13, 2017

To See The Kingdom of God

Jesus was and is king, king of all creation, though as he himself indicated, his...

November 10, 2017

Reflection For The Feast Of Saint Theodore The Studite (November 11)

Iconoclasm was the last great heresy of the first millennium. While it is clear Christians...

November 08, 2017

Do Not Burden the Poor For the Benefit of the Rich

St. Salvian the Presbyter lived during the collapse of the Roman Empire, and in his...

November 07, 2017

Mercy, Not Supernatural Signs, Is What We Need

Jesus warned us that we should not go to him seeking signs because it is...

November 06, 2017

Greatness is Found in Humility

One day Abba Macarius the Great came to Abba Anthony’s dwelling on the mountain. When...

November 02, 2017

Christians Must Say No to Trump’s Promotion of the Death Penalty

Recently, Pope Francis reiterated what Saint John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI understood: the...

November 01, 2017

Diversity in Unity

Some people want to reduce Catholicism into a monotonous, monotone belief system which has everyone...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

Who Dares Talk to the Dead?

The king needed help, he needed guidance, he needed the knowledge and wisdom of the...

October 30, 2017

Job and God

One of the most perplexing, and yet most humanistic, narratives in Scripture is the Book...

October 27, 2017

God Became Man Without a Human Self (Hypostasis)

One of the great difficulties of Christology is showing how Jesus Christ is said to...

October 25, 2017

Removing Protections For the Poor is Not a Christian Action

On Tuesday, Mike Pence gave the deciding vote in the Senate to repeal consumer protection...

October 25, 2017

True Greatness is Found in Love

Abba Amoun of Nitria came to see Abba Anthony and said to him, ‘Since my...

October 23, 2017

Christians Must Learn From the Worst Aspects of Their History and Avoid the Mistakes of the Past

Indeed, the church reproves every form of persecution against whomever it may be directed. Remembering...

October 19, 2017

Beware Those Pretending to Promote Judeo-Christian Values

Judeo-Christian values are found in the two-fold law of love: to love God and to...

October 18, 2017

October Presents to us the Horrors of Evil so We Can Exorcise Them From Our Lives

Death is ever before us. Behold the man, behold the woman– behold the skull, behold...

October 16, 2017

How Can God be Seen Like a Mother in the Act of Creation?

God transcends all images which we use to represent him, but, on the other hand,...

October 12, 2017

Drawn to the Horror

In his famous essay, “Supernatural Horror in Literature,” H.P. Lovecraft began his study of weird...

October 10, 2017

The Book Of Nature

One of the sages of that time came to Anthony the just and said: Father,...

October 09, 2017

The Father and Son in the Trinity Transcend Human Genders

In the theological debates between St. Athanasius and the Arians, one of the central questions...

October 05, 2017

Of Questions There Can Be No End

“My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end,...

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