According to all three Synoptic Gospels, Jesus, on the way to Caesarea Philippi, a few days before the end of His messianic ministry in Jerusalem, asked His disciples a question about their belief concerning His personal identity: “Who do you … Continue reading
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The call to holiness is a call to transform loneliness, which is a word that expresses the pain of being alone, to solitude, which is the word that expresses the glory of being alone with God. Here is how a … Continue reading
I have tried in this article to exhort my readers to do everything in their power to become engaged in an “intelligent” worship of our God. For our worship to be intelligent, we must be mindful of the prayers that … Continue reading
A “gospel” is a new kind of literary form. There is nothing quite like it outside of the New Testament (NT). The later apocryphal gospels, works for the most part of Christian piety, are pale reflections of the real thing … Continue reading
As we begin this sixth Paschal week, our readings are again taken from the Acts of the Apostles and the Gospel of John. The reading from Acts accounts Paul’s imprisonment in Philippi. Paul became imprisoned because he became annoyed with … Continue reading
In order to acquire the mind of Christ, a person must begin to embrace His attitudes of mind and ways of thinking. These are found, as I am sure all of my readers already know, in the Gospels and the … Continue reading
In this article I have been sharing with my readers what I believe is the basic difference between Eastern Christian and Western Christian understanding of salvation. In the East, our traditional story of salvation commences not with man as sinner … Continue reading
In the last issue I shared with you St. John Chrysostom’s concept of the condescension of God involved in His Incarnation. His concept involved a distinction between the essence and energies of God. In this there is a remarkable resemblance … Continue reading
As I have been stressing in this article, for our worship to become “real” we must not only begin to “mean” all the words that we say/sing but also to become truly involved with all the actions of the Divine … Continue reading
I have been stressing the importance of understanding that what we do in in the Eucharistic Liturgy is to make Christ truly present in our lives in the present as He was to His disciples in the past. One of … Continue reading