The Church has always venerated the divine Scriptures as she venerates the very Body and Blood of the Lord. In our Greek-Catholic Church the four Gospels, which are contained in the Gospel Book, always remain on the Holy Throne (i.e., … Continue reading
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We have come to the 18th Step on St. John’s Divine Ladder of Ascent. As you will recall, he envisioned that each step on this ladder can lead us closer to our union with God and our likeness of Jesus, … Continue reading
As I have been attempting to share with my readers, the call to holiness is a call to see Christ in our lives and to help our memories so that we may freely come to know and love God. The … Continue reading
The assigned readings this weekend provide us with an interesting combination of thoughts. Our Epistle readings tells us that it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians and then adds how the Christians, even though they were … Continue reading
Having shared with my readers my thoughts on the Little Entrance with the Gospels, I would guess that they will quickly understand the symbolic meaning of the Great Entrance. Again, the sequence is the same. The gifts – symbols of … Continue reading
Some might wonder why I’m sharing this rather technical information about New Testament (NT) criticism. I’m doing this because I believe it is critical to understand something about NT studies in a world which wants to reduce the NT to … Continue reading
In the last issue I was setting forth some ideas about use AT-ONE-MENT as the Eastern Christian approach to redemption and salvation. I ended by sharing what Athanasius of Alexandria wrote about God’s Son, namely that He became man that … Continue reading
In the last issue I began to present the ideas of John Climacus about POVERTY, the 17th Step on his Ladder of Ascent – his blueprint of how we become holy people. He suggests that we proceed one step at … Continue reading
While I realize that the previous article in my Bulletin, Understanding Our Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, truly seemed to overlap this article on the Divine Liturgy, it is my intention that this article stress more the liturgical theology connected with our … Continue reading
As the Christological understanding of the Old Testament (OT) pertains to the theology of salvation, a special importance attaches to the OT’s theology of sacrifice, inasmuch as Jesus interpreted His own death as a sacrifice offered for man’s deliverance from … Continue reading