Sunday of the Man Born Blind
Last Sunday, the Sunday of the Samaritan woman, the Holy Church told us how Christ raises a person from an earthly, carnal state of mind to the state in which a human being thirsts to worship God and pray to…
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Month May 2022
Without Toil
St. Gregory Palamas reminds us: “Not even the earth gives us useful produce without toil, neither does the soul attain anything God-pleasing and salvific without spiritual struggles.”
Ode to the Cassock that I Love
I still clearly remember after all these years my first fitting for you, done by a nun-seamstress! I thought I was being fitted for an imperial robe…and yes I was! You are the majestic robe that so many saints wore!…
And Man Said, Let Us Make God in Our (So Now Very Sinful) Image, After Our Likeness
A “church” announces what they believe are “God’s pronouns”. In the beginning (Genesis 1:26), God says that He made man in Their image and likeness. Now sinful man tries to project unto a perfect God his own diabolical perishing likeness.
“Many Shall Be Scandalized and Perish”
Then shall the creation of men come into the fire of trial, and many shall be scandalized and perish, but they that endure in the Faith shall be saved from under that curse. (Didache of the Holy Apostles, 16:5) Τότε ἥξει…
Referitor la chiliasm
+ Episcop Philaretos Și am văzut un înger coborându-se din cer, având cheia abisului și un lanț mare în mână. Și a prins pe balaur, șarpele, pe cel vechi, care este Diavolul și Satana, cel care rătăcește lumea locuită, și…
Bisschop Philaretos (Klimakitis): Mene, Tekel, Peres: de synode van Kolymvari, Kreta van 2016 en de onrust van enkele “wereld-orthodoxie” IN DUTCH
Auteur: Bisschop Philaretos (Klimakitis) In deze informatieve kritiek op het zogenaamde “Grote” en “Heilige” Concilie dat in 2016 in Kolymvari op Kreta werd gehouden, zal ik proberen uit te leggen waarom dit concilie onrust veroorzaakte, ook al was er niets…
Concerning Chiliasm
+ Bishop Philaretos And I saw an angel coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain upon his hand. And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent, the ancient one, who…
RIGHTEOUS NICODEMUS
by Vladimir Moss Today is the Sunday of the Holy Myrrh-bearers, Joseph of Arimathaea and Nicodemus. The least famous among these holy men and women is Nicodemus. But his story is no less instructive than the others’. Nicodemus was “a…
On the Deadening of the Human Spirit
A Sermon on the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women
By St. Ignatius Brianchaninov (+1867) in Dutch. Over het uitsterven van de menselijke ziel
Een preek op de zondag van de mirredragende vrouwen
Door St. Ignatius Brianchaninov (+1867)
De evangeliepassage van vandaag verkondigt de daden van de heilige vrouwen die de God-mens volgden tijdens Zijn aards verblijf, die getuigen waren van Zijn Lijden en aanwezig waren bij Zijn begrafenis. De begrafenis heeft vrijdagavond plaats gevonden. Toen de boosaardigheid…