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Outrageous Death Fr. John Garvey 30 March 2017 Philip Larkin’s poem “Aubade” is one of my favorites. It is a formally perfect composition, and its vision of death is chilling. The poem is bitter, dark, and thoroughly unsentimental in its v...
St John of the Ladder – Part IΙ Colm Luibheid 29 March 2017 Still, whether incompatible or not with the modern sense of the self and of identity, The Ladder of Divine Ascent remains what it has long been, a text that had a profound influence, lasting many cent...
It drags the soul Saint Symeon the New Theologian 29 March 2017 Let’s pay for our soul to acquire discernment with the coin of contempt for the transient things of life on earth. Let’s seek spiritual gifts, ‘the greater gifts’, and free ourselves, through consta...
40 Day Challenge: Week 5 – Humility and Living a Saintly Life Archbishop of Canada Sotirios 29 March 2017 Our theme for the fifth week of our 40 Day Challenge is Humility and Living a Saintly Life. After all, as Christians we are called to become holy; “Be holy, for I am holy” (1 Peter 1:16). Last week w...
A time to read and a time to embody (Part IΙΙ) Emma Cazabonne 28 March 2017 John always draws these from Scripture, following his own recommendation: “A genuine teacher is he who has received from God the tablet of spiritual knowledge, inscribed by His Divine finger, that is,...
Sweetest of all Saint Isaac the Syrian 28 March 2017 Patience over a long period of time engenders humility. Humility leads to the health of the soul. Health of the soul brings knowledge of God. Knowledge of God brings love of God. And, finally, love ...
St John of the Ladder – Part I Colm Luibheid 28 March 2017 To Western eyes, the monk, increasingly, is a figure of yesterday, and the commonest images of him are of the kind to make easy the patronizing smile, the confidently dismissive gesture, or that speci...
The Theology of Gender – 5. Woman in the New Creation. The “submission” Sofia Matzarioti-Kostara 28 March 2017 St. Gregory of Nyssa, in an extensive homily on 1 Co 15:28, written to challenge the heresy of Eunomius, explains the various meanings of the word ὑποταγή (submission) in Scripture. He clarifies that ...
I don’t, I don’t want it Saint Justin Popovich 27 March 2017 I’ll accept any form of death. You can kill me in any way you want, but, without Christ I don’t want anything. I don’t want myself, I don’t want God Himself, in between. I don’t, I don’t, I don’t!...
Saint Maximus the Greek, the tireless preacher of Patristic Tradition 27 March 2017 During its long historical past the Great Holy Vatopedi Monastery has proved to have played a double role in its spiritual activities. It pursued both a  hesychastic life and freedom from worldly care...
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