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When Christ is in Our Heart, We are Contented With Everything

01/20/2022

SSCORRE! Saint Sophia Cathedral Online Resources for our Religious Edification Topic of the Week – When Christ is in Our Heart, We are Contented With Everything “…These current catastrophes are so terrible for us, because they have come upon us because we are not firm in the Faith, and because we are not enduring them for the sake of Christ. For that reason, we have no hope of receiving crowns for them….” Excerpted from St.

Venerable Euthymius the Great

01/20/2022

Saint Euthymius the Great came from the city of Melitene in Armenia, near the River Euphrates. His parents, Paul and Dionysia, were pious Christians of noble birth. After many years of marriage they remained childless, and in their sorrow they entreated God to give them offspring. Finally, they had a vision and heard a voice saying, “Be of good cheer! God will grant you a son, who will bring joy to the churches.” The child

Venerable Macarius the Great of Egypt

01/19/2022

Saint Macarius the Great of Egypt was born around 331 in the village of Ptinapor in Egypt. At the wish of his parents he entered into marriage, but was soon widowed. After he buried his wife, Macarius told himself, “Take heed, Macarius, and have care for your soul. It is fitting that you forsake worldly life.” The Lord rewarded the saint with a long life, but from that time the memory of death was constantly

Athanasios and Cyril, Patriarchs of Alexandria

01/18/2022

In the half-century after the First Ecumenical Council held in Nicea in 325, if there was one man whom the Arians feared and hated more intensely than any other, as being able to lay bare the whole error of their teaching, and to marshal, even from exile or hiding, the beleaguered forces of the Orthodox, it was Saint Athanasios the Great. This blazing lamp of Orthodoxy, which imperial power and heretics’ plots could not quench

Anthony the Great

01/17/2022

Saint Anthony, the Father of monks, was born in Egypt in 251 of pious parents who departed this life while he was yet young. On hearing the words of the Gospel: “If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell what thou hast, and give to the poor” (Matt. 19:21), he immediately put it into action. Distributing to the poor all he had, and fleeing from all the turmoil of the world, he departed to the

“…man is a wayfarer who is wending his way in the sway of time and mortality towards immortality and eternity.” Saint Justin Popovich

01/14/2022

SSCORRE! Saint Sophia Cathedral Online Resources for our Religious Edification Topic of the Week: “…man is a wayfarer who is wending his way in the sway of time and mortality towards immortality and eternity.” Saint Justin Popovich Adult/Family: “The ever-living personality of God-human Christ is precisely the Church. The Church is always personality, God-human body and spirit. The definition of the Church, Her life, Her purpose, Her spirit, Her plan, Her ways, all these are given

Judgment with a Mixed Bag

01/14/2022

Fr. Stephen Freeman, March 7, 2016 If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago Solzhenitsyn puts his finger

The Abuser (Part 2)

01/13/2022

Abusive behavior betrays a deep spiritual and psychological illness By Abbot Tryphon, January 10, 2020 There are people who insist on holding on to resentment, often inventing situations in their minds that never happened, justifying their bad behavior, and putting the blame on others. They see themselves as the abused party, always quick to take offense. Rarely are they able to have healthy relationships, for they are in reality, the abusers. Their world centers around

Thoughts on the Dangers of Distance from each other. Thoughts on Perception.

01/12/2022

Thoughts on the dangers of distance from each other By Michael Haldas, July 28, 2016 “Generalities exist only in our minds. We do not experience the “love of man.” We can only love this man, or that woman. Because human beings and their lives are utterly unique, the greater the distance we place between ourselves and those of whom we treat, the less accurate we are.” (Father Stephan Freeman) “An exaggerated fear is equipped with binoculars; it tends to

The Abuser (Part I)

01/11/2022

No one is required by God to remain in an abusive relationship By Abbot Tryphon, January 3, 2020 The best way to respond to another person’s anger is not to withdraw, but to move towards them with kindness. There are times when distancing yourself from someone who is angry, is necessary, for there is absolutely no good reason for you to move towards another, when they are being abusive. For the wife of an abuser

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When Christ is in Our Heart, We are Contented With Everything

Venerable Euthymius the Great

Venerable Macarius the Great of Egypt

Athanasios and Cyril, Patriarchs of Alexandria

Anthony the Great

“…man is a wayfarer who is wending his way in the sway of time and mortality towards immortality and eternity.” Saint Justin Popovich

Judgment with a Mixed Bag

Thoughts on the Dangers of Distance from each other. Thoughts on Perception.

The Abuser (Part I)

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