Category Scripture

Scripture, To Ponder

Woe unto you! An Article by Reader Timothy of “Newsletter From a True Orthodox”

https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=681247&post_id=136038670&utm_source=post-email-title&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNDg2NzIwMTYsInBvc3RfaWQiOjEzNjAzODY3MCwiaWF0IjoxNjkyMDQzOTI0LCJleHAiOjE2OTQ2MzU5MjQsImlzcyI6InB1Yi02ODEyNDciLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.8GKvCPGckU4gEZ7pxw1duYuuFNIq9NfYgaSfbI0ZI3c At the risk of repeating myself, perhaps. Here is a key distinction. My apologies. To me, this is completely self-evident, so much so that perhaps I have not made this point explicitly before, or it has gotten lost in…

August 18, 2023

Scripture, Sermons, To Ponder, Wisdom from the Fathers

St. Athanasius the Great Explains Why St. John the Baptist called the Judaeans Offspring of Vipers.

Why did the Baptist (St. John the Forerunner) call the Judaeans offspring of the echidnae? Because this beast eats the stomach of its mother and thus comes out of the womb. In the same way, the Jews ate their teaches…

July 6, 2023

Gospel sermons, Saints, Scripture, Sermons, Spirituality, To Ponder

The Virtue of Tears

Great is the virtue of tears!

June 30, 2023

Scripture, Theology

A Question to our Blog about Our Lord, God, and Saviour Jesus Christ Being God. and Our Answer

I came to this site looking for an authority on translation of the Greek New Testament. Judging by my experience with French, there isn’t much hope in me becoming profiicient in Greek. So if someone there would reply to my…

June 22, 2023

Gospel sermons, Scripture, Wisdom from the Fathers

This is a hard saying, who can hear it?

by Reader Timothy In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. “This is a hard saying, who can hear it?” – John 6:60 “He who reads the books of a heretic immediately…

May 3, 2023

Cyprianism, Ecumenists, Saints, Scripture, To Ponder, True Orthodoxy

On the Sunday of St. Gregory Archbishop of Thessaloniki Palamas

By Reader Timothy St Gregory Palamas, whom the Church celebrates today, the second Sunday of Lent, was heavily persecuted in his lifetime. The persecution came, as it often does, as a result of an apparently very learned individual who had…

March 12, 2023

Biblical Events, Scripture, Spiritual Works, Wisdom from the Fathers

Do not give in, endure, go forward courageously, saying to yourself: I will not give in even unto death, and I will go bravely wherever the Lord calls me, with the spirit of repentance which now acts in me.

St. Theophan the Recluse When Moses and Aaron began to intercede before Pharaoh to let their people go, the answer to this was increased work for oppressed Israelites, to the point that they raised an outcry against their intercessors: ye…

March 8, 2023

Catacomb Church, Saints, Scripture, Spiritual Works, Spirituality

Saint Macarius the Great, St Seraphim of Sarov and the Aim of Our Christian Life

by Reader Timothy Wakefield In the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Saint Seraphim of Sarov, in his now-famous interview with N.A. Motovilov, revealed a ‘lost’ teaching of the Orthodox Church. In…

February 14, 2023

Scripture, Wisdom from the Fathers

Today’s Readings [Phil. 4:10-23; Luke 7:36-50] Commentary by St. Theophan the Recluse

St. Theophan the Recluse [Phil. 4:10-23; Luke 7:36-50] How could it be that although Simon the Pharisee reveres the Lord and invites Him over, he is scandalized when he sees that He shows favour toward a sinful woman and permits…

October 24, 2022

Biblical Events, Scripture, To Ponder

Noah’s Flood

by Dr. Vladimir Moss Just as sin multiplied in the prediluvial world, so did its punishment. The Flood came and destroyed the whole of humanity and animal life with the exception of Noah and his sons and those who…

April 5, 2022