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THOMAS MERTON, POPE FRANCIS AND PATRIARCH GREGORY III ON PEACE AND WAR
Macarius and the PonyBy Thomas MertonPeople in a villageAt the desert's edgeHad a daughterWho was changed (they thought)By magic artsInto a pony.At first they berated her"Why do you have to be a...
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THE SECULAR CHALLENGE by FATHER STEPHEN FREEMAN (plus) my rsponse
The Secular Challengeby Fr. Stephen Freeman my source: Glory to God for All ThingsFr. Alexander Schmemann held that secularism was the single greatest challenge of the modern era. I took up this...
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LAUDATO SI'& THE WONDER OF CREATION: PAPAL ENCYCLICAL & ORTHODOX COMMENTARY
Sister Earth. The “Green” Encyclical of Pope FrancisPages selected from the letter “Laudato si'” addressed by the pope to "every person living on this planet.” In parentheses, the numbers of the...
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A CHARISMATIC LEARNS TO TAKE UP HER CROSS: SOME ORTHODOX THOUGHTS
my source: Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, Langley, BC.I am rereading a book that I read on my way to becoming Orthodox almost twenty years ago. The book is Abbess Thaisia: An Autobiography. It is...
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THE ENCYCLICAL "LAUDATO SI'" AGAIN: HIS HOLINESS PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW & S....
Bartholomew, 270th Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, is spiritual leader to 300 million Orthodox Christians throughout the world.Ecology, Economy and EcumenismIn a series...
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NEW TEXT ON THE NEW ECCLESIOLOGY OF PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW (plus) MY COMMENTARY
SYNAXIS OF ORTHODOXCLERGY AND MONASTICSThessaloniki, November 19, 2014Beloved Brethren,Attached you will find a text prepared by the Synaxis of Orthodox Clergy and Monastics and signed by all its...
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THOUGHTS FOR THE FEAST OF SS .PETER & PAUL
. Since, however, it would be very tedious, in such a volume as this, to reckon up the successions of all the Churches, we do put to confusion all those who, in whatever manner, whether by an evil...
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POPE FRANCIS AND THE ABSURDLY VEXED CALENDAR QUESTION
my source: The National Catholic ReportThe notion of going into schism over a calendar is wholly without logic, but we are not in the realm of logic here.June 25, 2015 Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille Interior...
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CORPUS CHRISTI: ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT AND THE NEW EVANGELISATION II
WEAK, SICK, POOR AND TIRED: A STORY FOR LOSERS.from Glory to God for All Things by an Orthodox priest, Father Stephen Freeman, and one of the best blogs I know. The American Dream is embodied in...
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POPE FRANCIS AND THE CHARISMATIC REUNION (plus) FR PAUL McPARTLAN ON "TOWARDS...
By CNA Vatican Observer, Andrea GagliarducciVatican City, Jul 3, 2015 / 11:38 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis’ attendance for the second consecutive year at the Catholic charismatic movement’s...
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WE MUST PRAY FOR ALL: THE SALVATION OF THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ST SILOUAN by...
Kallistos (Ware), Metropolitan my source: Bogoslov.ruMetropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia analyses the soteriological theology of St Silouan the Athonite. Identifying the similar sense of cosmic unity...
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THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS: THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ON ST ELIZABETH THE NEW...
The Archbishop of Canterbury mentions St. Elisabeth the New Martyr in his homilySource: The Archbishop of Canterbury07 July 2015The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, conducted the baptism of...
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THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS, A HOMILY BY THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY; THE STORY...
The Archbishop of Canterbury mentions St. Elisabeth the New Martyr in his homilySource: The Archbishop of Canterbury07 July 2015The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, conducted the baptism of...
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LAUDATO SI'& THE WONDER OF CREATION: PAPAL ENCYCLICAL & ORTHODOX COMMENTARY
Sister Earth. The “Green” Encyclical of Pope FrancisPages selected from the letter “Laudato si'” addressed by the pope to "every person living on this planet.” In parentheses, the numbers of the...
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JULY 11th, 2015: THE FEAST OF OUR HOLY FATHER ST BENEDICT
Venerable Benedict of NursiaCommemorated in the Orthodox Church on March 14, as a Solemnity by the Benedictine Order on March 21st, and by the Catholic Church in general on July 11th.Troparion &...
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TO LIGHT A CANDLE RATHER THAN TO CURSE THE DARK: THE CHURCH AND HOMOSEXUALITY
Right and Wrong: COMMENTS ON RIGHT AND WRONG: CATHOLIC RESPONSES TO SCOTUSmy source: Pro UnioneFor Catholic Christians, there is a right way and a wrong way to disagree with the #SCOTUS ruling against...
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THE CATHOLIC CHALDEAN PATRIARCH OFFERS TO STEP DOWN IN FAVOUR OF A UNITED...
Chaldean Patriarch gambles on re-establishing “Church of the East”Louis Raphael suggests ditching the heads of the three ecclesial communities that derive from this ancient institution, so that they...
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THE MERCY OF GOD from TAIZE, POPE FRANCIS & ST ISAAC THE SYRIAN
THE ICON OF MERCY from TAIZE The icon of mercyThroughout the year 2015, our Community at Taizé is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its foundation, and invites people to remember its founder, Brother...
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THE PHYSICALITY OF PRAYER by ROWAN WILLIAMS
Dr. Rowan Williams, who recently retired as Archbishop of Canterbury, was one of a group asked by the New Statesman to respond to the topic, “After God: How do we fill the faith-shaped hole in modern...
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METROPOLITAN KALLISTOS WARE ON METROPOLITAN ANTHONY BLOOM
Metropolitan Kallistos: No other Orthodox Has Had That Extent of Influence on the Popular LevelSo what interested him was not systems, but persons and their meeting. Not God as a philosophical idea,...
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