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What Do Angels Guard?
Read more: What Do Angels Guard?It is a commonplace in our culture to speak of guardian angels, particularly when we have come close to a physical disaster and survived. Thus, a near-miss in an auto-accident, or even a survival from a terrible accident, conversation often lightly turns to mention of “my guardian angel.” Of course, such references also raise the […]
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Would You Believe…
Read more: Would You Believe…Would you believe that this is absolutely the most popular post on Glory to God for All Things? I mean, it has about 15,000 views. The comments are quite interesting, including a comment from a direct descendant of Mother Goose. To read the comments, go here. This delightful old English prayer said by children and their […]
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The Luminous Eye
Read more: The Luminous EyeBlessed is the man who has acquired a luminous eye with which he will see how much the angels stand in awe of Thee, O Lord, and how audacious is man. St. Ephrem the Syrian The Seraph could not touch the fire’s coal with his fingers, but just brought it close to Isaiah’s mouth: the […]
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Apophaticism
Read more: ApophaticismIt is impossible to know God – but you have to know Him to know that.
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The Soul as Mystery
Read more: The Soul as MysteryReaders would not be surprised to know that I am particularly drawn to the writings of Dostoevsky and of Solzhenitsyn. What draws me is the Orthodoxy that underlies them – especially their treatment of the human soul. Both authors have a reverence for the human soul that allows their characters to be more than words […]
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Waking Up
Read more: Waking UpThe fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom (Psalm 111:10). This fear descends on us from on High. It is a spiritual feeling, firstly of God and then of us ourselves. We live in a state of awe by virtue of the presence of the Living God together with awareness of our own […]
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Memory Eternal!
Read more: Memory Eternal!His Holiness, Patriarch Alexei II of Moscow and of All Russia, fell asleep today in his home near Moscow. He was elected as Patriarch in 1990 at the critical moment when the winds of freedom were at last blowing through the Orthodox Church in Russia. The nearly two decades since that event have been years […]
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What Shall This Man Do?
Read more: What Shall This Man Do?From the Desert Fathers: A brother asked the abba Poemen, saying, “If I should see my brother’s fault, is it good to hide it? The old man said to him, “In what hour we do cover up our brother’s sins, God shall cover ours: and in what hour we do betray our brother’s shames, in […]
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Don’t Do That
Read more: Don’t Do ThatA dear friend, who is a Russian monk, was among the earliest Orthodox clergy to visit in our mission in its first two years. Most of my parish had never met a monk, much less one who was as serious in demeanor. My son (now an adult) was then 11 years old and served in […]
This is a wonderful conversation! Father, thank you for your reply; it is beautiful. I’ll add that I IM’d you…