As I have tried to suggest in this article, spiritual growth is accompanied with a growth in consciousness/awareness of God’s presence in our world and in us. It compels us to look at others and creation in a different manner. … Continue reading
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We have been considering two books in the New Testament (NT) purported to have been written by the same author, Luke. There was a practical reason that the author wrote this single work in two volumes. In the ancient world, … Continue reading
I shall, this weekend and next, change the focus of this article on our Church in order to share some thoughts on the major feasts that we celebrate. On this seventeenth weekend after Pentecost, we celebrate the feast of the … Continue reading
As I have tried to share with you, my readers, it is critical that when we attend the Divine Liturgy that we so dispose ourselves to offer our lives, together with Jesus, back to God in true thanksgiving for the … Continue reading
Finding the meaning and purpose of your life is probably the most important thing that a person can do during his life. I find that many people think that finding happiness is the most important thing. I know, however, that … Continue reading
As I am sure all of my readers already know, Jesus, before He was crucified, created a ritual that became the new way of worshiping God. His act of saying that bread and wine can be His very Body and … Continue reading
You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment! The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself! Today … Continue reading
If you, my dear readers, have been trying to follow this article, you have already gotten a sense of the struggle the early Church went through in order to come to some real understanding of Who Christ IS and what … Continue reading
The eighth step of St. John’s Ladder is MEEKNESS and LOSS OF ANGER. A few words about anger are in order. The passion of anger is not merely a tendency to lose one’s temper. Rather it is a spiritual disease … Continue reading
It is critical, I believe, that when we worship we think of making our worship personal. Although we worship as a group, that which is offered up must also be individual. We must offer our own very lives back to … Continue reading