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2023-12-25T03:42:45-05:00

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Dogma, Mystery, And Change

Last updated on: December 25, 2023 at 3:42 am By Henry Karlson

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Christ is Born! Glorify Him! We can become so used to historical, or even, dogmatic facts, that we confuse their rote memorization and the acceptance of them as fact as the same thing as understanding them and believing all they imply. This has led us to lose sight of the questions which can arise, for we tend to reduce everything to the simplified fact, saying if you accept the fact, you accept the truth and all that we believe is... Read more

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2023-12-24T03:44:19-05:00

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History And Christ

Last updated on: December 24, 2023 at 3:44 am By Henry Karlson

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Before Christmas, the Byzantine tradition has us reflect upon all the holy men and women who came before Christ and consider how their lives helped shape the context in which Jesus, the incarnate God-man, was born. Likewise, it would have us look to his family line, to see how, throughout it, we find men and women whose engagement with God led to all kinds of graces being shared into the world, graces which were also accumulated in the family line... Read more

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2023-12-22T05:14:52-05:00

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St. Paul The Simple

Last updated on: December 22, 2023 at 5:14 am By Henry Karlson

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It is quite common for monastic communities, Christian or otherwise, to test strangers who want to join their community. They want to make sure any would-be monk would be able to follow the strict discipline expected by those within the community. There are many ways this test can be done. Sometimes, the would-be monk is insulted, with some reason or another given as to why they are not fit to join the community. This is done, not because they have... Read more

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2023-12-22T05:15:34-05:00

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The Ecumenical Movement And Conventions

Last updated on: December 22, 2023 at 5:15 am By Henry Karlson

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The modern ecumenical movement has brought about great insight into the Christian past as it has learned how often Christians became divided against each other, not because of any real, substantial dogmatic reasons, but because they failed to follow Christ’s expectation for them to be people who showed the world the way of love. Christ said the world should know they are Christians by their love; instead, animosity, distrust, and the pursuit of power and influence, led Christians to fight... Read more

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2023-12-22T05:16:17-05:00

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We Are All In This World Together

Last updated on: December 22, 2023 at 5:16 am By Henry Karlson

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While asceticism is meant to help spiritual seekers transcend normal, day to day, “worldly” experiences, it was and remains impossible for anyone, including the greatest ascetics, to live their lives completely independent from the world. Everyone will be affected by what happens in it. Everyone has basic needs which must be met, needs which include (but are not limited to): food, shelter, and clothing. No one can satisfy all their needs by themselves. We need each other, not only to... Read more

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2023-12-22T05:17:12-05:00

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Christ Calls All To Glory

Last updated on: December 22, 2023 at 5:17 am By Henry Karlson

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Christ came into the world to make it, and everyone in it, better. He does not do so through force, but through love. Just as God created an other, allowing the other to have freedom and self-determination, so in the recreation established by Christ, God continues to give us room to make choices for ourselves. Such freedom must not be misconstrued as being without boundaries or limitations, but within the domain which has been established for creation. We have been... Read more

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2023-12-22T05:16:46-05:00

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Pope Francis And The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights

Last updated on: December 22, 2023 at 5:16 am By Henry Karlson

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After the Angelus on December 10th, Pope Francis spoke on the Seventy-Fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which, at the time of its creation, promoted a new way of engaging the world, one in which human dignity and the rights which is accorded with it should be promoted and defended. Religious liberty, freedom of speech, freedom from fear, and freedom from undue want, are basic rights which should be granted to everyone. In the last seventy-five years,... Read more

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2023-12-22T05:17:32-05:00

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St. Cyril Of Alexandria, Conventions, And The Truth

Last updated on: December 22, 2023 at 5:17 am By Henry Karlson

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We must not confuse what we have apprehended of the truth and turned into some sort of fact, even dogmatic fact, as being the same thing as the truth in itself. It is, at best, a conventional expression of the truth. We can designate it as a conventional, or relative, truth so long as its conventional status is kept in mind and that the absolute truth itself is understood as being something other than our apprehension. When someone equivocates between... Read more

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2023-12-22T05:17:40-05:00

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Challenges And Temptations

Last updated on: December 22, 2023 at 5:17 am By Henry Karlson

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We often wish the challenges we face on a daily basis would go away. We think that would make our lives peaceful, and with such peace, we would find it easy to have fulfilling lives. The problem is that if we found ourselves having such peace, we would find ourselves attached to that peace we would feel as if we had little to no reason to push ourselves to grow, and to become someone even better. Despite how much we... Read more

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2023-12-22T05:18:45-05:00

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The Enlightening Grace Of God

Last updated on: December 22, 2023 at 5:18 am By Henry Karlson

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Jesus, the incarnate God-man, unites creation with God, making him the mediator between God and humanity, God and creation. In him the two are one and yet always two. He is God and man, creator and creature. Those distinct natures are preserved instead of becoming blended together and becoming a new, third nature. In his humanity, he shares with the rest of creation a created nature, allowing them to be one, even as they find themselves to be personally distinct,... Read more

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