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2020-08-25T03:13:18-05:00

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Abba Theon And The Robbers

Last updated on: August 25, 2020 at 3:13 am By Henry Karlson

Abba Theon was an educated anchorite who lived in his cell for over thirty years. He was known to be able to read Greek, Latin and Coptic. But it was not his learning which set him apart. It was his mystical connection to God, a connection which led him to have a compassionate relationship with all he encountered, including the various animals which would visit him at his cell. He led a simple life, eating only vegetables which did not... Read more

2020-08-23T05:33:35-05:00

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Do We Try To Flatter Jesus Like The Rich Young Man?

Last updated on: August 23, 2020 at 5:33 am By Henry Karlson

Paul told the Corinthians that they can and will be saved if they held fast to all that they had been taught about the Gospel. But, he emphasized how important it was to put the faith into practice. Their belief could be in vain if they were unwilling to accept and act on all that he had preached: Now I would remind you, brethren, in what terms I preached to you the gospel, which you received, in which you stand,... Read more

2020-08-20T09:28:52-05:00

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Single-Issue Voting Vs. The Common Good

Last updated on: August 20, 2020 at 9:28 am By Henry Karlson

Catholicism is a universal faith. The Holy Spirit has been sent to us to teach the fullness of the truth (cf. Jn. 16:12-3). That means, among other things, it is holistic, seeking to integrate all truth together. It rejects attempt to separate various aspects of the truth, pitting them against each other. Likewise, it rejects pitting goods against the good. Catholicism rejects any attempt to elevate and promote a particular fact over and above all others, because it recognizes this... Read more

2020-08-19T08:29:41-05:00

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Manhood And Toxic Masculinity

Last updated on: August 19, 2020 at 8:29 am By Henry Karlson

In the shot story, “Manhood,” the former student and friend of C.S. Lewis, John Wain, writes of a youth whose father wants him to grow up to be a strong man, a youth who is being pushed by his father into all kinds of exercises and sports in order to attain his father’s ideal of manhood. The father, Mr Willison, felt he had to do this so that his son, Rob, could be better than he, that is, to have... Read more

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2020-08-18T03:14:45-05:00

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Jesus And The Death Penalty

Last updated on: August 18, 2020 at 3:14 am By Henry Karlson

Jesus, was asked what should be done concerning a woman caught in adultery. Those who asked him said that the law indicated she must be put to death (cf. Lev. 20:10). The law, they believed, promoted the death penalty and to execute the law then required the woman’s death. What, then, would Jesus suggest? Would he agree to stoning the woman? No, because Jesus understood things differently: Early in the morning he came again to the temple; all the people... Read more

2020-08-16T06:42:50-05:00

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Do Not Receive The Talent Of Grace In Vain

Last updated on: August 16, 2020 at 6:42 am By Henry Karlson

“Working together with him,” St. Paul writes, “then, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain” (2 Cor. 6:1 RSV). What does it mean to accept God’s grace in vain? How is it possible for us to do so? Doesn’t grace perfect nature? Doesn’t accepting it transform us and save us? Yes, but only insofar as we work with or cooperate with it, that is, only if we take what has been given to us in... Read more

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2020-08-14T03:11:07-05:00

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The Meaning Of Mary’s Death

Last updated on: August 14, 2020 at 3:11 am By Henry Karlson

The Dormition of Mary, the “going to sleep” or death of Mary, and her subsequent assumption into heaven, is an important event in human history. It demonstrates to us what can be accomplished in and for us if we, like Mary, are open to Christ’s deifying grace in our lives. The teaching of the Dormition in the Christian East is the teaching that Mary died, and it is only in and through that death she joined in with the death... Read more

2020-08-13T03:15:28-05:00

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Willing Like Jesus

Last updated on: August 13, 2020 at 3:15 am By Henry Karlson

St. Maximos the Confessor’s complex theology engages many concerns, from the cosmic significance of Christ’s work, to the nature and modality of the will. His concern with the will, and how we will, is found throughout his writings. However, it became far more important and significant for him when he realized the Christological aspects involved with the question of the will. Christ, being fully God and fully man, has a human will, even as he has a divine will. How,... Read more

2020-08-11T10:18:45-05:00

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After COVID19

Last updated on: August 11, 2020 at 10:18 am By Henry Karlson

COVID19 has shown us the broken nature of contemporary American society. Not only do many Americans deny the reality of the pandemic, they deny their social responsibility, making the pandemic worse than it should have been. Those societies in which social responsibility is appreciated, people are more willing to be inconvenienced for the good of the whole, which they know, in the long run, will make their own particular situation better. For a single stick is easily broken, but the... Read more

2020-08-09T03:11:45-05:00

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Moving Mountains

Last updated on: August 9, 2020 at 3:11 am By Henry Karlson

Jesus was greeted by a man whose son suffered from epileptic seizures which often caused the boy to hurt himself. Jesus’ disciples were not able to heal him. Only Jesus was capable of doing so: And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him and kneeling before him said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and he suffers terribly; for often he falls into the fire, and often into the water.... Read more

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