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Sunday, July 31, 2011
A Sacramental World-View: On the Sanctity of Marriage
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Friday, July 29, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
On Divine Providence: God's Wonderful Plan For Your Life
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Monday, July 25, 2011
Shakespeare and Picnics: Successfully Planting Orthodox Ideas on American Soil Since the Seventeenth Century AD
The Heavenly Banquet: the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
King: Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius?
Hamlet: At supper.
King: At supper? Where?
Hamlet: Not where he eats, but where he is eaten.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene III.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Protestant Liturgical Piety Circa 1960
On one hand, the traditional Mass is still in place; on the other hand, we can already witness the phenomenon of empty Churches and -later on in the movie- the infiltration of skepticism and religious indifference into people's hearts.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
Lvka-Warm
Revelation 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Living In Harmony With Nature
We confess that therefore did the heavens close and became like unto brass and copper, for our hearts were closed to the mercy and true love for our neighbor.
Therefore did the earth dry and become unfruitful, for we have not brought to our Lord the first-fruits of good deeds.
Therefore doesn’t He give us rain and dew, for we did not have tears of humility and the life-giving dew of our minds and thoughts towards God.
Therefore did all food sear, and all the grass of the field wither, for all good thoughts in us have dried out.
Therefore did the sky darken, for our mind has been darkened by evil thoughts, and our heart has been stained by unlawful lusts and defiled by wicked desires.
From a Prayer to Saint Elijah
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Orthodox Ecumenism 101
1 Kings 18:40 And Elijah said unto them: Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
The Pilgrim's Progress
The sad reality of our spiritual 'life'...
Luke 12:49 I am come to cast fire on the earth; and what will I, but that it be kindled?
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
A Second Attempt By Calvinists Elders To Convert Matt Damon And Draw Him Over To Their Side
Calvinism 101.
Our free-will has destroyed us.
Tatian the Assyrian, Address to the Greeks, Chapter XI.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Satan's Puppets
...controlled by the Master Puppeteer through the invisible strings of passions,
with which he binds us and holds us captive.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Orthodox Worship 101
Most of the females in our parish were breasty and liked to flaunt it. [...] It was always an odd phenomenon: the Pantocrator staring at me from the ceiling as I was staring at the young Greek women. Not only were there no head-coverings, but...
Friday, July 8, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Eastern Orthodoxy: THE Family-Friendly Faith !
Eastern Orthodoxy: reuniting all your little ones with the Lord since 170 BC
In a time and age when so many religious faiths exclude women and children from martyrdom, we here, in the Orthodox Church, are proud to announce you that we make no such sexist and ageist discriminations ! Quite to the contrary, the motto by which we gladly stand is: Women and children first !
2 Maccabees 7:20 But the mother was marvellous above all, and worthy of honourable memory: for when she saw her seven sons slain within the space of one day, she bare it with a good courage, because of the hope that she had in the Lord. 21 Yea, she exhorted every one of them in her own language, filled with courageous spirits; and stirring up her womanish thoughts with a manly stomach, she said unto them: 29 Fear not this tormentor, but, being worthy of thy brethren, take thy death that I may receive thee again in mercy with thy brethren. 41 Last of all after the sons the mother died.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
On Human Weakness & Demonic Temptation
Oh, well... the devil makes us sin...
But we like it when we're spinnin' in his grip...
Monday, July 4, 2011
On Paradise, the Afterlife, and the Kingdom of Heaven
Matthew 22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Mark 12:25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
Luke 20:34 And Jesus answering said unto them: The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: 35 But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: 36 Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
For instance, take this sample: he [mortal man] has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race -- and of ours -- sexual intercourse!
It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed-for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water!
His [man's] heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values. It consists -- utterly and entirely -- of diversions which he cares next to nothing about, here in the earth, yet is quite sure he will like them in heaven. Isn't it curious? Isn't it interesting? You must not think I am exaggerating, for it is not so. I will give you details.
You know what the human race enjoys and what it doesn't enjoy.
1. First of all, I recall to your attention the extraordinary fact with which I began. To wit, that the human being, like the immortals, naturally places sexual intercourse far and away above all other joys -- yet he has left it out of his heaven! The very thought of it excites him; opportunity sets him wild; in this state he will risk life, reputation, everything -- even his queer heaven itself -- to make good that opportunity and ride it to the overwhelming climax. From youth to middle age all men and all women prize copulation above all other pleasures combined, yet it is actually as I have said: it is not in their heaven; prayer takes its place.
That rich gift [intercourse] which, possessed as we possess it, makes all other possessions trivial and not worth the trouble of invoicing.
Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, pp. 8-11
Is it any wonder then that Muslims believe that everybody's born a Muslim, that Islam is man's original religion, and every conversion to Islam is actually a "reversion", even if that person has never been a Muslim before?... They even go so far as to fancy themselves to be monotheists, when -in fact- the only God they truly serve is their flesh, their bellies, and their loins. -- But at least they have a very good excuse, come Judgment Day: they lacked God's revelation... which is something that many Christians such as myself cannot -sadly- use in their defense...
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Why Roman Catholics Should Follow Me Instead of the Pope
Saturday, July 2, 2011
The Two Ways That Are Acceptable To God
Peter was married, and Paul was celibate. Mary was both a Virgin and a Mother.
Christ was at once unmarried, and the mystical Bridegroom of the Church.
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