This year has taken a huge toll on our lives. Next to the millions who got sick, the rest of us have suffered emotionally and spiritually. We have lived in fear for ten months, and the anxiety will continue for many more months. Our sentiments of love and affection have been put on lockdown, and …
Continue reading "Babies grow up. When will ‘baby Christianity’ grow up?"
When all things were enveloped in quiet silence, and when the night had reached the mid-point in its course, your all-powerful Word leaped from he height of the heavens, from the royal throne, into the midst of the land that was doomed… (Book of Wisdom 18:14-15) Don’t look for the Book of Wisdom in your Bible. …
The key word in today’s Gospel reading is “see” - When did we see you…? is the question repeated by both sets of people! Compassion is all about seeing. That’s the message today. Notice in the parable of the Good Samaritan, the priest and the Levite saw the wounded man and passed on the …
CHRIST IS BORN! GLORIFY HIM! ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ΓΕΝΝΑΤΑΙ. ΔΟΞΑΣΑΤΕ. That is the traditional Christmas greeting for Orthodox Christians. It is analogous to the more familiar Easter greeting: "Christ is Risen! Truly he is risen!" The Christmas greeting comes from the first words of the Oration on the Theophany by St. Gregory of Nazianzus, which you can …
