Immediately after the Apostle Peter recognizes Jesus as the Christ (something revealed to him from heaven), Peter rebukes Jesus for saying that He must be rejected and killed, (something inspired in Peter by satan). Even the Apostle Peter, even immediately after a heavenly revelation, could not accept that the way we enter into the Fatherās Glory, the way we experience the Resurrection, is through suffering and death. Jesus, however, assures us thatā¦
In the Epistle reading for today, we read that Sts. Paul and Barnabas, after preaching the Gospel in Lystra, visited the churches they had founded on their way home to Antioch: “Strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith.” And what do you think they said to strengthen the disciples (the believers) and to exhort them to continue in the faith? What would encourage us to continueā¦
You have really asked the fundamental question: What is worth living for? You are right that an external constraint to be good only proves to be a burden that eventually produces some form of mental illness either because of guilt because you ignore the ārulesā or fundamentalistic self-righteousness and condemnation of others because you deceive yourself into thinking that you are keeping the ārules.ā Why bother? Of course, libertinism only produces moreā¦
