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Alabama swore in her new governor yesterday.  It seems it did not go quite as nicely as some people would have preferred.

The brethren

So my question I am laying before everybody revolves around the biblical idea of brotherhood, and what that means for those who deny Christ.  I hope I can take it for granted that that ( Read more... )

Today, one of our priests described something in her homily which really struck me: the vulnerability of the infant Christ.
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( Dead to sin, alive in Christ... )

...believe me, the acquired, drilled, dull, world-historical custom whereby we always speak with a certain veneration about Christ, since, after all, we have learned suchlike from history and have heard so much of that sort of thing, about his supposedly having been something great-this veneration is not worth a pickled herring; it is ( Read more... )

"If you want the body of the commandments to flourish,
you must zealously desire the pure spiritual milk of maternal grace (cf. 1 Pet. 2:2);
for is on this milk of grace that you must suckle yourself
if you wish to increase your stature in Christ."

St. Gregory of Sinai
The Philokalia Vol IV

Jesus answered, "Have faith in God. I tell you the truth, you can say to this mountiain, 'Go, fall into the sea.' And if you have no doubts in your mind and believe that what you say will happen, God will do it for you. SO I tell you to believe that you have received the things you ask for in prayer, and God will give them to you. When you are ( Read more... )

If we read daniel , chapter 9, from the 20th verse to the end of the chapter, we see a prophecy given concerning Jerusalem ( Read more... )

Today's readings from Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter are from Acts 15:1-6, Ps 122:1-5, John 15:1-8The readings for today from Acts and from John have a very strong ecclesiastical component to them, and they demonstrate clearly the beauty of this gift of the Church that has been given to us. But before looking at that dimension, in order to ( Read more... )

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God's mercy towards Man is made all the more evident when you consider things like the real-life Death Star in this link. Were God a cruel and vengeful being, He could easily have used His Omnipotence to spare Christians and burn the planet up with gamma rays. He still ( Read more... )

The Son is begotten of the Father ( Read more... )