The forty-day fast served to heighten awareness that “the will of God is our sanctification”. When the Church presented Jesus calling His disciples on the first Sunday of Lent, she revealed the inception of this saving will. On the second Sunday, she brought into view the second step that follows the disciples' call. Jesus was ...
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God is Love
When our tradition says that God loves the world, it means He loves all people at all times and in all conditions, without discriminating between one person and another, whether sinful or righteous. This is an essential aspect of the God portrayed in our Scriptures as: love (1 John 4:8), meaning a steadfast love that ...
Read morePeople's Salvation
He said to me: "Madness, if we remain silent about it, deems itself sane". I agreed with him on that statement. However, I told him, "When you break your silence, make sure to utter words that the insane can comprehend"! We have an obligation to demonstrate to people, whether through our silence or our speech, ...
Read moreHis Mother, Our Mother
To believe that the Virgin Mary is "the mother of Jesus" is the foundation of our faith that she is our mother as well. "Behold your mother", Jesus said to His beloved disciple (John 19:27). Notice the movement of the utterance. It is Jesus Who presents Mary as a mother to His disciple, or to ...
Read moreSunday of the Last Judgment
Those who adhere to the worship in our Church are aware that the four Sundays, with which we prepare ourselves for the Great Lent, take their names from the Gospel passages we read in the Divine Liturgy. The Sunday of the Last Judgment, or this Sunday, draws its name from a reading taken by the ...
Read moreThe Prodigal Son
He is our companion to Pascha. His memory resonates in the prayers of the Great Lent from beginning to end. In the parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32), God has been revealed to be a God Who does not want anything as much as He wants us to be free with Him, regardless of ...
Read moreIt is Time for Us to Heal!
One of our deep wounds is that we are far, a little here and a lot there, from the aspirations of the Word. In most of what is required by our regeneration, you see us seeking anything but the Word. Who taught us to separate heaven from earth? Who told us that heaven does not ...
Read moreThe House of Knowledge
I am trying to help myself deal rationally with diseases that afflict us here and there. I am speaking of this strange dependency fueled by gossip, complaints, and laziness. Individuals who search for someone in the Church to convince them that she is their life, are overlooking that the final kingdom has been opened, but ...
Read moreThe Day of Discoveries
Yesterday, a friend of mine quoted to me the words of the American writer Mark Twain: “The two most important days of your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why”. The words were new to me. Have I written to you before that I believe there are two ...
Read moreThe Authority of Joy
Recall a moment of joy, one that you have truly experienced, just a single moment, before you say that the pain bearing down upon you today has everlasting authority.
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