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2020-03-20T03:30:42-05:00

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Prayer

Last updated on: March 20, 2020 at 3:30 am By Henry Karlson

Prayer is a vital part of the Christian life. We need communion with God. We need to be able to share all our thoughts and feelings, all our hopes and dreams with God. This is not to say God does not know them. He knows them. But, by our nature as persons, we are relational creatures, and a part of the way we interact with others is to tell them about ourselves, including, and especially those things which are most... Read more

2020-03-18T03:42:16-05:00

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Time Without Sacraments? Do Not Fear. We Can Still Receive God’s Grace

Last updated on: March 18, 2020 at 3:42 am By Henry Karlson

While the Mass (Divine Liturgy) has a central role in the Christian life, we must remember, Christians throughout the centuries, and in many diverse places, have remained faithful while incapable of routine participation in the Mass (and other sacraments). Many Christians have had infrequent connection with priests, for one reason (priest shortage) or another (plague), that they had make do with a Christian life that had infrequent reception of the sacraments. This, certainly, is a concern, and the church desires... Read more

2020-03-17T03:28:56-05:00

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St Patrick and the Snakes

Last updated on: March 17, 2020 at 3:28 am By Henry Karlson

While St. Patrick did not drive out snakes from Ireland, the legend suggesting he did is sometimes understood as a metaphor to the way he spread the Christian faith. Thus, some say it means that he came to Ireland and enlightened it with the light of Christ, casting out the dark shadows of sin and the spiritual ignorance of Ireland’s druidic past. This interpretation is problematic because Patrick did not eliminate the pre-Christian faith from Ireland. When he died, major... Read more

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2020-03-15T03:38:28-05:00

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The Cross, The Sign and Path of Love

Last updated on: March 15, 2020 at 3:38 am By Henry Karlson

Now the flaming sword no longer guards the gates of Eden; It has mysteriously been quenched by the wood of the Cross! The sting of death and the victory of hell have been vanquished; For You, O my Savior, have come and cried to those in hell: “Enter again into paradise” –Kontakion for the Veneration of the Holy Cross On the Byzantine Calendar, the third Sunday of Lent is that of the Veneration of the Holy Cross. The cross is... Read more

2020-03-13T15:51:22-05:00

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Mass-less is not Faithless

Last updated on: March 13, 2020 at 3:51 pm By Henry Karlson

In early Christian times, the period of the Great Fast, that is, Lent, a time of penance and almsgiving, was also a time in which the Divine Liturgy, Mass, was not celebrated. Rather, pre-Christian times were remembered, and the Great Fast itself was seen as participating in and continuing the memory of the past. Whenever Christians met to worship (but not in a Mass setting), the readings were taken from the Tanakh instead of the New Testament. The historical preparation... Read more

Presanctified Liturgy

2020-03-11T03:43:05-05:00

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Engaging Morality Vs. Following Legalism

Last updated on: March 11, 2020 at 3:43 am By Henry Karlson

Many, if not most people, have a very simple understanding of morality. They reduce everything to being black or white bad, or good, without any gradation. Something is either simply bad or good. A way this over-simplification of morality is achieved is by reducing everything to the objectivity, ignoring the subjective dimensions behind moral activity. Similarly, various categories used to discuss morality are often misunderstood. For example, many think the category of “intrinsic evil” means “the worst kind of sin.”... Read more

2020-03-10T03:36:09-05:00

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Fasting

Last updated on: March 10, 2020 at 3:36 am By Henry Karlson

Self-control, that is, self-discipline, is a difficult thing to learn (especially when we live in an era which tells us to follow our desires without restraint). And yet, learning such discipline is an important part of proper self-development. To become good at some particular skill requires an investment in time and effort where we put aside many of our wants and desires which would get in the way of acquiring the proficiencies which we desire for ourselves. Thus, for example,... Read more

2020-03-08T03:48:09-05:00

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The Meaning of St Gregory Palamas Sunday

Last updated on: March 8, 2020 at 3:48 am By Henry Karlson

The first Sunday of Lent, the Sunday of Orthodoxy, celebrated the triumph of icons, and in doing so affirmed the value of revelation. God truly has revealed himself to us. God became man and took on a form which we can see. Since we can see it, we can depict it. Now, the second Sunday of Lent, St. Gregory Palamas Sunday, gives us a continuation of this theme. In this way, we continue with our celebration of the triumph of... Read more

2020-03-06T07:02:42-05:00

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The Vatican and AI: Rome Calls For AI Ethics

Last updated on: March 6, 2020 at 7:02 am By Henry Karlson

The Catholic Church has a reputation of being behind the times. While, in some ways, there is truth in that generalization, because the Catholic Church is often slow to deal with contemporary problems, it is an over-simplification of the Catholic Church’s legacy. The Catholic Church has consistently promoted education and the integration of faith and reason. The Catholic Church has a history of engaging the sciences even as it has cautioned misapplication of those sciences in theories which do not... Read more

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2020-03-04T04:34:31-05:00

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Athanasius and the Deification of the Flesh

Last updated on: March 4, 2020 at 4:34 am By Henry Karlson

In their conflict with the Arians, those following the decrees of Nicea had to develop a sophisticated understanding of the incarnation in order to respond to Arian objections. For centuries, Christians used loose, if not ambiguous, theological explanations for the incarnation. This allowed subsequent generations to employ the same sources while holding differing conclusions. With the Arian crisis, this changed. While engaging the basic Christological outline which had been handed to them from previous generations, the Nicenes had to take... Read more

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