Search results for: “secret hand”
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The Secret Hand of God
Read more: The Secret Hand of GodNow Moses built an altar and called its name The-Lord-My-Refuge; for with a secret hand the Lord wars with Amalek from generation to generation (Exodus 17:16 LXX). After a number of decades as a Christian pastor, I am convinced that most of what God does in our lives and in our world remains hidden. I […]
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With A Secret Hand
Read more: With A Secret HandOne of the joys of the newly published, Orthodox Study Bible (OSB), containing all the canonical Orthodox books of the Bible, is the fact that the Old Testament was carefully brought into agreement with the text of the Septuagint, long a standard and important liturgical translation for Orthodox Christians. The early Church generally used the […]
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Mary as the “Secret Joy” of the Church
Read more: Mary as the “Secret Joy” of the ChurchFr. Alexander Schmemann wrote: …When investigating the history of Mariological piety, one discovers that it is rooted not in any special revelation but, primarily, in the experience of liturgical worship. In other terms, it is not a theological reflection on Mary that gave birth to her veneration: it is the liturgy as the experience of […]
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In the Secret Place
Read more: In the Secret PlaceFollowing up on the previous article’s discussion of shame and envy – I offer this reprint of an early piece which looks at the right role of the “secret” and “hidden” things of the liturgy. Of all the places and spaces to which we should attend – this article names the most important. I suspect […]
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Shame and Envy – Our Secret Sins
Read more: Shame and Envy – Our Secret SinsSeveral years back I stumbled on a book about the sin of envy. I was struck by what I read and realized that I had never heard a sermon on the topic (nor preached one). Though a number of the Fathers cite envy as the first and greatest sin, it never seemed to come up […]
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The Secret Place
Read more: The Secret PlaceOf all the places and spaces to which we should attend – this article names the most important. I suspect that our failure to recognize holy space in the physical surroundings of our lives contributes to our inability to find the holy place within our own heart. I am not sure which must come first […]
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In the Secret Place of the Most High God
Read more: In the Secret Place of the Most High GodThis article first appeared in 2007. It speaks of one of the most essential elements of our spiritual life – the secret place. I have not written often on the topic – but it bears repeating. Without a proper regard for the ‘secret place of the Most High God’ and the secret place that is […]
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In the Secret Place of the Most High God
Read more: In the Secret Place of the Most High GodHe that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Psalm 91:1 There aren’t many secrets anymore. I live in a city that is known as the “Secret City,” because in the Second World War it was one of the main sites of the Manhattan Project […]
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Flattery and a Secret Plot by the Kremlin
Read more: Flattery and a Secret Plot by the KremlinAll flattery, my friends, as Josef Pieper well taught us, is a form of manipulation. Mass flattery manipulates the soul of a culture. It drags a nation to hell. A quote from Ochlophobist‘s May 19 posting. The thought is worth slow contemplation. I am reminded of a tee-shirt (admittedly too cute) with the picture of […]
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Frodo’s Last Lesson
Read more: Frodo’s Last LessonFrodo failed. If you’re a reader of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings (or just a movie-goer), then you know that the central, heroic character, the young Mr. Frodo, ring-bearer, fails to throw the Ring into the fires of Mt. Doom at the end of his arduous journey. Everything he loved, his home, his friends, every […]
Peace, Robert. It might not be helpful but I imagine just acknowledging the trauma is the first step.