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Thursday of Cheese-fare. He Had to Become Like Us in Every Way

02/23/2017

Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in every respect, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make expiation for the sins of the people. For because He Himself has suffered and been tempted, He is able to help those who are tempted. Hebrews 2: 17-18 (Epistle on the Feast of the Annunciation-March 25) When mankind fell through the sin of Adam and

Lost Christian Language for Repairing the Person (Part II)

02/01/2017

By Scott Cairns The Mind in the Heart The more we read in the fathers and mothers across the early centuries of the Church, the more profoundly we come to recognize this formula, this admonition that we might find our prayer lives made fruitful by our descending with our “minds” into our “hearts.” This figure, then — of the lucid nous descended into the ready kardiá, of the mind pressed into the heart — articulates both the

Christos Anesti! Christ is Risen! The Third Monday of Pascha: What Christ Accomplished on the Cross (The Means of Redemption, Part III)

05/16/2016

By Hieromonk Damascene The Means of Redemption, Part III Many of the Holy Fathers wrote on this theme of Christ as sacrifice. Origen (who is not a Holy Father) and, following him, St. Gregory of Nyssa, posited that the sacrifice was offered to the devil. But St. Gregory the Theologian and all the Fathers after him rejected this idea. They often spoke of the sacrifice as being offered to God the Father, and sometimes they

Christos Anesti! Christ is Risen! The Second Friday of Pascha: What Christ Accomplished on the Cross (The Means of Redemption, Part II)

05/13/2016

By Hieromonk Damascene The Means of Redemption, Part II The word “redemption,” of course, comes from this juridical explanation. As Vladimir Lossky points out: “The very idea of redemption assumes a plainly legal aspect: it is the atonement of a slave, the debt paid for those who remained in prison because they could not discharge it. [15] By His death Christ ransomed man out of servitude to sin, and redeemed man from the eternal consequences of sin which had

Christos Anesti! Christ is Risen! The Second Thursday of Pascha: What Christ Accomplished on the Cross (The Means of Redemption, Part I)

05/12/2016

By Hieromonk Damascene The Means of Redemption, Part I Now, having looked at the pre-Fall state and the consequences of the Fall, let us look more closely at how Christ restores man to the pre-Fall state and in fact beyond and above this state. The how of the redemption, like the nature of God the Holy Trinity, is ultimately a mystery. And yet the Holy Scriptures and the Holy Fathers help us to approach this mystery. They enable us

Christos Anesti! Christ is Risen! The Second Tuesday of Pascha: What Christ Accomplished on the Cross (The Consequences of the Fall, Part I)

05/10/2016

By Hieromonk Damascene The Consequences of the Fall, Part I Such was the lofty original state of man and the creation, and such was man’s lofty original calling. But as we all know and experience every day, the first man, Adam, fell from this state and brought himself and all of creation into a state of corruption and death. The whole story of the Fall and why it occurred lies outside the scope of this

The Great and Holy Pascha! Christos Anesti! Christ is Risen!

05/01/2016

“This is the day which the Lord hath made; let us rejoice and be glad therein.” Pascha is the day of universal joy and peace. The entire world, every breath and all creation, triumphs and rejoices. For the Lord has conquered and destroyed death, abolishing the “dominion of death” – the power of death. With the Resurrection of Christ, the dawn of the coming general Resurrection has already begun to break over all creation, for

The Sixth Monday of Great Lent: Just as Crabs & Idleness Contains All Sin

04/18/2016

Just as Crabs Just as a bundle of green logs suffocates and puts out a bonfire causing clouds of smoke, so excessive grief often surrounds the soul with thick cloud and dries up the fount of tears. Just as a blind person is no use as an archer, so a disciple with the mania of contradiction will end in perdition. Just as tempered metal can sharpen soft or rusty metal, so can a zealous brother

The Fifth Tuesday of Great Lent: How Weak the Wicked Are! & Sin is a Contagious Disease

04/12/2016

How Weak the Wicked Are! See for a moment how weak the wicked are. They cannot even reach the spot to which instinct is leading and almost pushing them. What would happen if they lacked even this help from nature, so strong as to seem irresistible? Look how impotent they are! They long for objects that are simple and of little account and yet they do not even succeed in attaining these. They indeed lack

The Fourth Friday of Great Lent: Sin is in no Way the Fault of our Nature &God does not Judge by Quantity

04/08/2016

Sin is in no Way the Fault of our Nature ‘I am the victim of violence in my nature; you say. ‘I love Christ, yet my nature compels me to sin.’ If you were in fact compelled to sin, if you were the victim of violence, then you would be forgiven for it. On the other hand, if you sin through idleness, do not expect forgiveness. But let us look at the question a moment

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Thursday of Cheese-fare. He Had to Become Like Us in Every Way

Lost Christian Language for Repairing the Person (Part II)

Christos Anesti! Christ is Risen! The Third Monday of Pascha: What Christ Accomplished on the Cross (The Means of Redemption, Part III)

Christos Anesti! Christ is Risen! The Second Friday of Pascha: What Christ Accomplished on the Cross (The Means of Redemption, Part II)

Christos Anesti! Christ is Risen! The Second Thursday of Pascha: What Christ Accomplished on the Cross (The Means of Redemption, Part I)

Christos Anesti! Christ is Risen! The Second Tuesday of Pascha: What Christ Accomplished on the Cross (The Consequences of the Fall, Part I)

The Great and Holy Pascha! Christos Anesti! Christ is Risen!

The Sixth Monday of Great Lent: Just as Crabs & Idleness Contains All Sin

The Fifth Tuesday of Great Lent: How Weak the Wicked Are! & Sin is a Contagious Disease

The Fourth Friday of Great Lent: Sin is in no Way the Fault of our Nature &God does not Judge by Quantity

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