October 2011
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This Sunday...
At every turn in the liturgy, I realized how absolutely inexhaustible the Beauty of Christ truly is. In the Old Testament reading, in the Psalms, in the Gospel of our Lord, he penetrates our time and space, and infiltrates our thoughts and worship. He approaches us, causing our emotions such confusion, for we lack the capacity to experience the Lamb of God. In these moments, it would seem that...
“As a father has compassion for his children, so the Lord has compassion for...”
– Psalm 103:13
“Before the war begins, seek after your ally; before you fall ill, seek out your...”
– St. Isaac the Syrian
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Wall Street and Christian Fundamentalism
Over the past two days, these two topics have weighed heavy on my mind. (So much so that my grades on my two educational endeavors today most likely suffered.) I watched two documentaries; one on American Credit and then one describing Christian Fundamentalism and its selling points. Granted, both of these films posited very biased information, yet that doesn’t change the sentences that...
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Over the Last Two Days...
I have been asked for advice on more than a few occasions. It has really helped me to understand why the Lord has allowed me to endure so many of the struggles that I have in this “Veil of Tears”. I pray that my advice aligns with His will, and I am so excited to see people really critically thinking about their faith and their lives.
Something I have observed recently is that...
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“Let us place all our hope in Him alone. And let us cast all our care on Him...”
– St. Maximus the Confessor
“Sin, to one who loves God, is nothing other than an arrow from the enemy in battle. The true Christian is a warrior fighting his way through the regiments of the unseen enemy to his heavenly homeland. According to the word of the Apostle, our homeland is in heaven; and about the warrior he says: ‘our warfare is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and...
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Common Prayer ( a renunciation of prayerful...
Before all things, the Teacher of peace and the Master of unity would not have prayer to be made
singly and individually, as for one who prays to pray for himself alone. For we say not ‘My
Father, which art in heaven,’ nor “Give me this day my daily bread;” nor does each one ask that
only his own debt should be forgiven him; nor does he request for himself alone that he may not
be led into...
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