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May 2017

May 26, 2017

Sunday of the Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council

The church is called to be universal. It is called to go forth across the...

May 25, 2017

The Ascension

And He ascended too, just as He had become incarnate, for the sake of our...

May 23, 2017

Life Is Not A Game

I find it difficult to appreciate the rhetoric of Trump and his administration. They think...

May 22, 2017

Orpheus And The Prophetic Power Of Music

There might be no figure who is as great, indeed, as important for the development...

May 19, 2017

Sunday Of The Man Born Blind

This Sunday, the Byzantine tradition in its ongoing cycle of Paschal Sundays remembers the Man...

May 17, 2017

The Oneness In Silence Is Greater Than The Dualism In Words

Three Fathers used to go and visit blessed Anthony every year and two of them...

May 16, 2017

On The Sacrament Of Baptism: Conclusion

What happens if you die before being baptized?

May 15, 2017

On The Sacrament Of Baptism: Part Three

This is the third post from a series on the sacrament of baptism. Click Here...

May 12, 2017

The Sunday Of The Samaritan Woman

For the Fifth Sunday of Pascha, the Byzantine tradition lifts up St. Photina, the Samaritan...

May 10, 2017

On The Sacrament Of Baptism: Part Two

This is the second post of a series on the sacrament of baptism. Click here...

May 08, 2017

On The Sacrament of Baptism: Part One

What we want is the kingdom of heaven, abundant life, that is eternal life without...

May 05, 2017

The Sunday Of The Paralytic Man

Following the feast of the resurrection, and the witness of the resurrection represented by the...

May 03, 2017

Charity and Avarice: The Roots Of Good and Evil

We must discern what would lead us away from God, that is, what causes us...

May 01, 2017

Even In Silence, There Will Be Temptation

He said also, "He who wishes to live in solitude in the desert is delivered...

April 2017

April 28, 2017

The Myrrh Bearing Women

And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and...

April 25, 2017

Man, Not Superman

God the Word became man. He did not become super-man; he became man. God took...

April 24, 2017

On Rahab, Prostitute and Prophet of God

In listing the ancestors of Christ, Matthew brings forth a large variety of figures, among...

April 21, 2017

The Eighth Day: Thomas Sunday

The resurrection of Christ on the first day of the week is also symbolically understood...

April 20, 2017

April 20, Feast of St Theotimus

Saint Theotimus of Tomi was one of the many “illustrious men” whom St. Jerome wrote...

April 18, 2017

Be Humble, Remember Those Who Faced Greater Challenges Than Us

He also said, "God does not allow the same warfare and temptations to this generation...

April 17, 2017

On Providence

Providence is an important, albeit, difficult concept to explore. Because we are dealing with the...

April 13, 2017

Paschal Reflection

God, the Father through the Son and with the Holy Spirit, created the universe and...

April 12, 2017

The Wormtongue Option

After all the debate over the so-called Benedict Option,  I decided to invite Grima Wormtongue...

April 11, 2017

Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit

Perhaps one of the more confusing Scriptural passages to interpret comes from when Jesus talks...

April 10, 2017

On The Herculean Jacob

Jacob, who was later renamed Israel, served in himself a representation of all the people...

April 07, 2017

Reflection For Palm Sunday

The Great Fast is over. Palm Sunday, on the Byzantine Calendar, starts Holy Week, which...

April 05, 2017

Virtue is Social

In The City of God, St. Augustine gave an extensive, although highly polemical, exploration of...

April 04, 2017

Conceive Within The Truth Beyond Comprehension

We lean way too much on our own understanding, and take it for granted that...

April 03, 2017

Detach Yourself From What Holds You Back From Following God

A brother renounced the world and gave his goods to the poor, but he kept...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

For the Fifth Sunday of Lent (The Sunday of Mary of Egypt)

St. Mary of Egypt, at the age of twelve, left her parents, moved to Alexandria,...

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