An Episcopal Priest's Sermons, Prayers, and Reflections on Life, Becoming Human, and Discovering Our Divinity
The saying “Know yourself” means therefore that we should recognize and acknowledge in ourselves the God who made us in his own image, for if we do this, we in turn will be recognized and acknowledged by our Maker. So…
Read More Claiming Our Share in His Divinity
“Jesus then asked him, ‘What is your name?’ He said, ‘Legion;’ for many demons had entered him.” (From Luke 8:26-39, Proper 7C) He called himself Legion but that is not his true name. That is not who he is. It…
Read More The True Image Defeats Legion – A Sermon on Luke 8:26-39
“If Caesar can require his image in a coin, cannot God require his image in a human being?” - St. Augustine, Sermon 308A.7
"'Let us make the human being according to our image and according to our likeness' [Gen. 1:26]. By our creation we have the first, and by our free choice we build the second. In our initial structure co-originates and exists…
Read More Artisans of the Likeness of God – The Feast of St. Basil the Great
The first objective of God was for the human being to come to be “according to the image and likeness of God,” and what is “according to the image” is incorruption, immortality, invisibility, which image the divine: and he has…
Read More St. Maximus on Image and Likeness
There is a Hindu legend about a time when all humans were gods, but they abused that divinity. They so abused it that Brahma, the chief god, decided to take it away from them and hide it where they would…
If, as I suggested in the previous post, we all have and venerate icons then maybe there is a corollary to be considered. How are we also iconoclasts? What images have we and do we continue to destroy? Iconoclasm is…
