On the Meaning of Life

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On the Gay Life-Style

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When Orthodoxy Meets "The Matrix"

Agent Smith on the Closing of the Church Year:

Everything that has a beginning has an end.

Agent Smith on the Beheading of John the Baptist:

The purpose of life is to end.

The Church Year begins with the Birth of the Mother of God on September 8 and the Conception of Saint John the Baptist on September 23, and ends with the Repose of the Holy Virgin Mary on August 15 and the Beheading of John the Baptist on August 29.

This is inherited from Judaism, where the Ecclesial New Year began on the first day of the seventh month, Tishri, the equivalent of September-October, as it does until today in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Know Thyself...

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John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

A Question From My Reader(s)

A little bit of feed-back is always appreciated...

On Gay Marriage

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The Orthodox Stance On Homosexuality, Against Opposing Waves Of Both Right-Wing Hate Speech, As Well As Leftist-Liberal Orwellian Newspeak

Saint George, Pray for Us!

Coming Out

Closeted and In Denial

John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Why Women Should NEVER Be Ordained to the Priesthood

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Contemporary Worship 101

John Norman's Reaction To My Previous Post

I Was Too Cool For My Previous Blog Anyway...

Driven by hunger, a fox tried to reach some grapes hanging high on the vine but was unable to, although he leaped with all his strength. As he went away, the fox remarked: Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes!

Aesop, The Fox and the Grapes

Easter in August

1.

Christ died on Friday, the fourteenth of Nissan. On the evening of Great and Holy Friday, the Requiem of our Lord is sung in the Church, commemorating His repose.

On the evening of the fourteenth of August, the Requiem of our Lady is sung in the Church, commemorating her earthly departure.


2.
The two Requiems themselves are very close in style, structure, and content to one another, and share the same melodic line.



3.

Three days later, Christ's body wasn't found in the Tomb.

Three days later, Mary's body wasn't found in the Tomb.


4.
After His resurrection, Christ made Himself known to two of His Holy Apostles in the breaking of the bread while they were sitting together at the table having supper, and afterwards appeared in the midst of all Disciples saying to them: Peace be unto you! (Luke 24:30-43)

After her Ascension, Mary appeared in the midst of the Holy Apostles at the breaking of the bread while they were sitting together at the table having supper:

As the Apostles, the God-bearing heralds, after the departure of the Theotokos into the world above were sitting as usual at table to eat, and as they lifted up a piece of bread in the name of the Lord, they suddenly beheld the Theotokos coming from above, surrounded by radiant angels, and heard her imparting to them "Peace" from her Son and God; and so they exclaimed: Alleluia !

The Sixth Kontakion of the Akathist of the Dormition of the Theotokos

5.
The Holy Apostle Thomas was conspicuously absent from both of these miraculous events, and had to be personally convinced by having Christ appear to Him after His resurrection from the dead, asking Him to touch His wounds, and by entering into Mary's Tomb only to discover it empty, as the two other Holy Apostles, Peter and John, did with Christ's Tomb after His glorious resurrection.

Orthodox Snake-Handling 101

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Eastern Orthodoxy:

Teaching Pentecostals Lessons In Snake-Handling Since 1700 AD !

A Friendly Advice To The Orthodox After Two Full Weeks Of Fasting...

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Oh, my!... Just look at that unshaved beard!... Whatever happened to Matthew 6:16-18?...

On Creationism & Intelligent Design

The High Priest of Atheism

Protestant Iconoclasm 101

On Christ's Atoning Sacrifice

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The Suffering Messiah

On Taking The Easy Way Out

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On Fasting, Abstinence and Self-Discipline

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On the Necessity and Relevance of Ascetic Efforts

in Today's Materialistic and Consumerist Society

Our Enemy Is NOT Our Enemy

...but rather our own anger and hatred towards him...

On Our Encounter With Christ's Gospel

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On the Holy Liturgy

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Eastern Orthodoxy: Brutally Disrupting Pious Protestant Services Since 1600 AD

The Passion of the Christ

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On Christ's Second Coming

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On Ascetic Efforts

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On Adam & Eve

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Genesis 3:1 ¶Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman: Yea, hath God said: Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Stretching Out...

John 21:18  Verily, verily, I say unto thee: When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.

Serene Words of Comfort and Encouragement for the Feeble and Faint-Hearted

The High Priest of Atheism