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Persons in Communion: The Disciplines of Communion (Part I)

10/16/2012

We can now give an outline of the disciplines of communion. The first thing, before love is even mentioned, is humility, and what humility becomes when it is exercised towards another person, that is, respect. Respect rejects all self-interested curiosity, all possession of souls. Some people undergo a strict regime of self-denial to free themselves from carnal desire, only to fall prey to a more exquisite desire, that for souls. This must be identified and

Signposts on the Way to God

10/15/2012

Signposts on the Way to God How do we know about God’s love, God’s generosity, God’s kindness, God’s forgiveness? Through our parents, our friends, our teachers, our pastors, our spouses, our children— they all reveal God to us. But as we come to know them, we realize that each of them can reveal only a little bit of God. God’s love is greater than theirs; God’s goodness is greater than theirs; God’s beauty is greater

Archbishop Demetrios Appoints Mrs. Fotini Economides to the National Archdiocesan Council.

10/12/2012

The Clergy, Parish Council, and congregation of Saint Sophia Cathedral join in one voice to offer heartfelt congratulations to Mrs. Fotini Economides on the occasion of her appointment to the National Archdiocesan Council for the years 2012-2014.  The Archdiocesan Council is the highest advisory board of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, consisting of his Eminence Archbishop Demetrios, the Eparchial Synod of Metropolitans, the Auxiliary Bishops, the Executive Committee of the Archdiocese, and a select

Sacred Cosmology in the Christian Tradition (Part II)

10/12/2012

“Man’s Divorce from Nature” What I wish to suggest is a way to recover the lost cosmic dimension of religion by showing how it might be found again in the Christian tradition. What must be recovered above all is the vision — not only that religion needs to be imbedded in the cosmos, but also that the world is imbedded in God. For it is this loss that inevitably led to the separation of religion

PLUCK OUT THE EYE (Part II)

10/11/2012

AND IF YOUR HAND CAUSES YOU TO SIN, CUT IT OFF, IT IS BETTER TO ENTER LIFE MAIMED THAN WITH TWO HANDS TO GO TO HELL . . . AND IF YOUR EYE CAUSES YOU TO SIN, PLUCK IT OUT; IT IS BETTER FOR YOU TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD WITH ONE EYE THAN WITH TWO EYES TO BE THROWN INTO HELL. —MARK 9:43ff. What must you be aware of? Three things: First, you

PLUCK OUT THE EYE (Part I)

10/10/2012

AND IF YOUR HAND CAUSES YOU TO SIN, CUT IT OFF, IT IS BETTER TO ENTER LIFE MAIMED THAN WITH TWO HANDS TO GO TO HELL . . . AND IF YOUR EYE CAUSES YOU TO SIN, PLUCK IT OUT; IT IS BETTER FOR YOU TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD WITH ONE EYE THAN WITH TWO EYES TO BE THROWN INTO HELL. —MARK 9:43ff. When you deal with blind people it dawns on you

Father Maximos on Christ as the Only Way to the Father

10/09/2012

Another woman raised her hand. “I apologize for my Greek,” she said shyly. “Don’t worry, my English is worse,” Fr. Maximos reassured her. “Christ claims,” the woman continued, “that the only way to reach the Father is through Him. This is always a question that is raised among people. What will happen to the rest of the world, to the billions of people who are not born Christian and who may not have even heard

Consumerism and the Gospel

10/08/2012

The spiritual life has much more to do with subtraction than it does with addition. Yet I think most Christians today are involved in great part in spirituality of addition. The [consumerist] worldview is the only one most of us have ever known. We see reality, experiences, events, other people, and things—in fact, everything—as objects for our personal consumption. Even religion, Scripture, sacraments, worship services, and meritorious deeds become ways to advance ourselves—not necessarily ways

Sacred Cosmology in the Christian Tradition (Part I)

10/05/2012

“Where is the life we have lost in living; where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge; where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” — T. S. Eliot These three poignant questions, penned by T. S. Eliot over a half-century ago, point us directly at the problem of the Christian view of the Creation as we face the new millennium. The Christian conscience has lost its ancient wisdom, and needs to recover

Making Our Lives Available to Others

10/04/2012

Making Our Lives Available to Others One of the arguments we often use for not writing is this: “I have nothing original to say. Whatever I might say, someone else has already said it, and better than I will ever be able to.” This, however, is not a good argument for not writing. Each human being is unique and original, and nobody has lived what we have lived. Furthermore, what we have lived, we have

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