Interrupting the Silence

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  • World Holocaust Day – We Must Remember….

    Today, January 27, marks World Holocaust Day, a day that we are to be intentional about remembering the victims and lives that have been forever changed not only by the Holocaust but also by the subsequent genocides throughout the world. It is not enough to remember these people and events as history, something or someone Read more

  • Solitude For Ourselves And Others

    Jung recounts a story of a clergyman who had been working fourteen hours a day and was suffering from emotional exhaustion. Jung’s advice was that he should work eight hours a day, then go home and spend the evening alone in his study. The clergyman agreed to follow Jung’s advice precisely. He worked eight hours, Read more

  • Required Reading: The Book of Created Things, Written By The Gulf Oil Spill

    Once a man who was considered to be wise approached St. Anthony and asked him, “How do you ever manage to carry on, Father, deprived as you are of the consolation of books?” St. Anthony replied, “My book, sir philosopher, is the nature of created things, and it is always at hand when I wish Read more

  • The Feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe

    Today, December 12, is the Feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Blessed Virgin of Guadalupe, Mother of the true God for whom we live, bearer of Jesus Christ who gives us His Spirit and gives life to the Church. We thank you because you are our loving and compassionate Mother; because you hear our weeping, our Read more

  • 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 Read more

  • 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 Read more

  • 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 Read more

  • Blogs Worth Reading

    The following posts seem to me worth reading. They challenge us to consider how our faith and spirituality intersect and inform our everyday life: Living in the Present Moment posted at The Byzantine Anglo-Catholic; Pray to God Unceasingly & with Attention posted at Milk & Honey; St. Macarius the Great on a True Christian posted at Read more

  • Symeon the New Theologian – Christ’s Body

    We awaken in Christ’s body as Christ awakens our bodies, and my poor hand is Christ, He enters my foot, and is infinitely me. I move my hand, and wonderfully my hand becomes Christ, becomes all of Him (for God is indivisibly whole, seamless in His Godhood). I move my foot, and at once He Read more