Category: Blog Archive
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Greece as Political Time Bomb
David P. Goldman posted this today on First Things’s blog First Thought. He describes the economic situation in Greece and sketches out some of the social causes and possible outcomes. In my heart I want what I read here to not be true–but I suspect my hopes are misplaced. In Christ, +Fr Gregory On Feb.…
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St. Tikhon: Sunday of Orthodoxy Sermon
H/T: Orthodox History St. Tikhon delivered the following address on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, February 23, 1903, in San Francisco. It was reprinted in Holy Trinity Cathedral LIFE (the newsletter of the San Francisco OCA cathedral) in March 1995, and may be found in the fantastic Holy Trinity Cathedral online archives. We are reprinting it…
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St. John Chrysostom on fasting
DO YOU FAST? Do you fast? Give me proof of it by your works. If you see a poor man, take pity on him. If you see a friend being honored, do not envy him. Do not let only your mouth fast, but also the eye and the ear and the feet and the hands…
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Met. Jonah addresses St. Tikhon’s seminarians
Practical, pragmatic, teaching drawing deep from the Orthodox tradition yet contexutalized to our present circumstances, particularly our interior life. This man fulfills his apostolic calling to teach and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/9576405[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/9577595[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/9580699[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/9581694[/vimeo]