As I have shared with my readers before, I believe that the call to holiness means a call to develop our spiritual life – called to develop the spiritual dimension to our personality. I also believe that this is closely … Continue reading
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Hopefully my thoughts on 1 John has encouraged my readers to pick up their bibles and read that short letter. You will not be disappointed. Having concluded my comments on 1 John, I would share some thoughts on 2 John. … Continue reading
The fifth stupid way to think about God is GOD THE GENERAL. This way has God saying to all of us: Stand at attention. I am your God. I am Lord and Commander. I will not give one hoot for … Continue reading
On this twelfth weekend after Pentecost, the combination of readings that are assigned present an interesting but also very poignant message. In the section from Paul’s 1st Letter to the Corinthians, he presents the idea of the importance of the … Continue reading
The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that the WAY of Jesus calls us to a life which truly spurns attachment to the things of this world. Why? Because when you think about it, the things … Continue reading
The fourth smart way to think about God is God Is the Creator of Creators. So God, being creative as He is, kept His hands busy until one day, a trifling million years ago, a new species appeared. It didn’t … Continue reading
The seventh step on John’s Ladder is MOURNING. Remembrance of Death, the sixth step, when truly understood and acquired, leads to mourning. It must be understood, however, that the mourning John talked about is not the kind to which we … Continue reading
Having just thought about the Hymn to the Mother of God which is included in the Anaphora of the Divine Liturgy that we use to worship God, we now turn to the commemorations of the deceased. I cannot exhort and … Continue reading
St. Cyril tells us that the only human person thus far to have achieved the blessed state of union with God is the Most Holy Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary, through whom the Son of and Word of God … Continue reading
This information is taken from an article written by Dr Andrew Thomas Kania about Metropolitan Andrii Sheptyts’kyi, the head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church 1900-1944. Sheptyts’kyi’s story has been little known in the Western world until the last twenty years … Continue reading