14 hours ago by michaelcook

Learning to do more – with less. Learning to be content with what I have – instead of what I want. Learning to live simply, that others might simply live. Words from the desert, from St. Maximus the Confessor, that give life to the world. Love is a most holy condition of the soul in which it values ...

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1 day ago by Fr. James Coles

What is joy? Feeling? Ability? Mind-set?

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1 day ago by fatherstephen

I have to confess as I begin this post that I find myself reaching for words. I reach for words to say something I know, but which is hard to express. To believe the truth is not the same thing as having a correct opinion – indeed the two have almost nothing to do with one another. And this is a gre ...

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1 day ago by Stavros

Let us guard against inhumans, but let us guard even more against becoming inhuman ourselves. – Patriarch Pavle As the Bishop of Kosovo, Pavle faced tribulations that were of different nature but similar magnitude. In seeking to win over the Albanians of Kosovo during his wartime struggle to seize p ...

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1 day ago by blackincense

It’s been awhile since I wrote here, in any meaningful way about my work in perfume and incense, and I’m beginning to wonder if this blog has served the professional purpose. I think it has and I will leave it up, but I unless there is something pressing to say about BPI or incense in general, I’ll ...

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1 day ago by Fr. James Coles

On November 1st I walked into Target and there were Christmas trees up! It used to really bother me that as soon as Halloween was off the shelves Christmas would arrive. In the past I found the early Christmas displays and the radio’s 24 hours-a-day Christmas music kind of appalling. I was that guy ...

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2 days ago by debd

Here are a few things I’ve tried to do this week with Advent…. I made the Jesse Tree out of a curtain I found for less than $10 at Walmart. I cut it down to size and added the felt trunk and branches. I copied the idea from the homepage for the Festal Celebrations Yahoo group. Almost all the ornamen ...

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2 days ago by fatherstephen

I have added Fr. Georges Florovsky’s seminal article, “ The Limits of the Church,” to the Pages section of the blog. This article is one of the most thoughtful and oft-discussed treatments of St. Cyprian’s statements on the Church and the limits of grace. Florovsky’s understanding both takes St. Cyp ...

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2 days ago by HeighHo

An englishman, Archmandrite Zacharias, has a book out called The Hidden Man of the Heart, subtitled The Cultivation of the Heart in Orthodox Christian Anthropology. The author is a disciple of Fr. Sophrony, who died in England leaving a number of disciples there, and was himself a disciple of St. Si ...

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3 days ago by Mat. Emily

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