We understand nothing of God's salvific action if we do not grow in our spreading of hope in every age. To those who confine themselves to criticizing the current circumstances or who compare the days, loving the past and bemoaning the present conditions: do not elevate one era over another as if the regeneration is ...
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The Great Lent
Fasting, for those who practice it with conscious conviction, is a public acknowledgment that the world is transient. We all know that this great fast is our path to Pascha, a journey to the feast, as Father Alexander Schmemann, of blessed memory, used to call it. However, Pascha cannot be attained without the cross, without ...
Read moreThe Mystery of Regeneration
I met with a few university brethren, young men and women. Our meeting was to keep up with a commitment that was starting to take hold of them, concerning the regeneration life in their Church. I had prepared myself to tell them that our meetings are a bridge that is placed, for us to cross ...
Read moreFull Commitment
Those who criticize doing good deeds out of habit have not yet been granted to understand that full commitment is inherent in nature.
Read moreThe Call for Our Peace
Nothing helps us be stronger than the world's animosity except our determination to keep ourselves “babes in malice” (1 Corinthians 14:20). This is God's call, the call for our peace and what our peace entails in terms of serving peace on earth. Let me be candid with you. Do not read these lines with eyes ...
Read moreThe Precious Friend
There is nothing more precious than a friend who, if he turns his back on you, he remains face to face with you! This is something that gossipers cannot do.
Read moreBeware of Idols
In these daily reflections, I do not write messages to people who have annoyed me in something. I know that, at times, I can be annoying. This bothers me and does not bother me! I do not like to be a cause of annoyance to anyone. However, neither do I like a person to live ...
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 moreA Life of Repentance
In one of the scenes of a film adapted from a novel by the Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, the protagonist appears alongside another girl helping her teach children in the church to memorize the Ten Commandments. When they reach the commandment "Thou shalt not commit adultery", the two girls get interrupted ...
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