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For God All Things Are Possible
Then Job answered: 2“Today also my complaint is bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning. 3Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his dwelling! 4I would lay my case before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5I would learn what he would answer me, and…
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And Death is Only a Horizon.
We seem to give him back to you, dear God, who gave him to us. Yet as you did not lose him in giving, so we have not lost him by his returning. Not as the world gives, do you give, O Lover of Souls! What you give, you do not take away. For what…
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Anima Christi, Soul of Christ
Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from Christ’s side, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. O good Jesus, hear me. Within your wounds hide me. Let me never be separated from you. From the malicious enemy defend me. In the hour of my death…
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Stumbling Blocks
38John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.” 39But Jesus said, “Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me.…
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Secularism: The Negation of Homo Adorans
The tragedy of secularism, which Father Schmemann insists is a Christian heresy, lies in the fact that it distorts, exaggerates and therefore mutilates something true. “Secularism,” he writes, “is above all a negation of worship. Not of God’s existence, not of some kind of transcendence and therefore of some kind of religion. If secularism in…
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The Feast of the Holy Cross
September 14 is the Feast of the Holy Cross. In the Eastern Church it is called the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. The historian Eusebius, in his Life of Constantine, tells how that emperor ordered the erection of a complex of buildings in Jerusalem “on a scale of imperial magnificence,” to set forth as “an…
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What Should We Do About That Moon?
A wine bottle fell from a wagon and broke open in a field. That night one hundred beetles and all their cousins gathered. And did some serious binge drinking. They even found some seed husks nearby and began to play them like drums and whirl. This made God very happy. Then the “night candle” rose…
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Dominion Over All The Earth
Christianity teaches that the world is not eternal, but that there was a time when the world was not, a time when it had no existence. The world was created ex nihilo, created from nothing. If the world was created from nothing then the threat of returning to nothingness is ever present. The only way…
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A Funeral Sermon For Warren
“The Sun of Righteousness is gloriously risen, giving light to those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death.” John 6:37-40 Romans 8:14-19, 34-35, 37-39 Wisdom 3:1-5,9 How poignant is it that today we do not sing and the organ is not played – this day, of all days, when we gather to…
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Interrupting the Silence 