Category: bible
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Never Skip Thorns
Jesus heals everyone… except St Paul. Why?
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Widow of Nain
Luke 7:11-16 (Gospel) for today (Byzantine Rite Churches using the Eastern Paschalion). Now it happened, the day after, that He went into a city called Nain; and many of His disciples went with Him, and a large crowd. And when He came near the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was being carried…
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Sunday Gospel Vlog
Taking a look at the Gospel (for those Churches using the Eastern LEctionary) Luke 6:31-36, but focusing especially on the 31st verse. Jesus is participating in an existing rabbinic debate, but – having taken a side – he draws it futher to very surprising conclusions. This is the Living Torah, the Word of God, teaching…
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Who said it first?
Props to the Bible Project for continually opening my eyes to the wonder of our Sacred Texts.
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Winepresses
In the LXX Psalter Pss 8, 80, & 83 (Hebrew numbering Pss 9, 81, and 84) all have the superscription εἰς τὸ τέλος ὑπὲρ τῶν ληνῶν, translated as “for the end, concerning the winepresses”. In the MT Psalter the text is לַמְנַצֵּ֥חַ עַֽל־הַגִּתִּ֗ית “for the leader, on the gitit”. Notes suggest that last word might…
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Philip Up!
The user discusses a common misinterpretation about St Philip the Evangelist, distinguished from St Philip the Apostle with the former’s role as a Deacon outlined. They detail the three main functions of the Diaconate; assisting in works of mercy, proclaiming the Gospel, and if necessary, dying for the Truth of the faith.
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The True Story of Sleeping Beauty
The Readings for the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary I wrote this in 2018. Reposting for the feast (which will be on Monday). LET ME TELL YOU A love story. This is a real love story, not a romance, such as we pass off today as love; nor is it a “chick flick” sort…
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Opening the Mind. Paris – 1240 AD
τότε διήνοιξεν αὐτῶν τὸν νοῦν τοῦ συνιέναι τὰς γραφάς.Then He opened their minds to understand the scriptures…And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. Luke 24:45,27 THERE’S THIS CURIOUS – and shameful – event that happens in the reign of King St Louis…
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The Weight of Mists
THIS POST STARTED with Across the Universe, the brilliant cinematic reworking of The Beatles’ ouvre into a story of love, rejection, and nirvanah interwoven with a full on history of the 60s in America. I first watched it when it came out and became obsessed with the Beatles as a result. I’d never really liked…
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Something Greater.
The Readings for the Sunday of St Mary of Egypt The Fifth Sunday of the Great Fast OUR HOLY MOTHER MARY OF Egypt, as she is called in the Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete, is perhaps my most-favorite of female saints. Her regular feast day is 1 April which is always in Lent…
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Of Incidents and Accidents.
The Readings for the Sunday of St Gregory Palamas The Second Sunday of the Great Fast AS THE Observance of the Great Fast evolved in the Eastern Church, each Sunday was assigned a special devotion: the Sunday of Orthodoxy, the Sundays of St Gregory, of St John, of St Mary, and the Sunday of the…
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Of Icons & Hosts
The Readings for the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy The First Sunday of the Great Fast HEARING OF A BYZANTINE CATHOLIC podcast called What God is Not, I decided to give a listen to a ByzCath Nun, Mother Natalia, and Fr Michael O’Loughlin, a priest of the Eparchy of Phoenix. I was instantly drawn…
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The Parable of Rabbits & Pigs
The Readings for the Sunday of the Last Judgement Meatfare HERE IS A PRECES of our parable: Jesus says at the Last Judgement God will divide us as a farmer does the sheep from the goats. The sheep will find out that they have often fed, clothed, and cared for Jesus. And they will say…
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To Do Bible
LEARNING OF the death of my friend, Minka, via Facebook sent me on a used book quest to find her out-of-print works. Finally a copy of Praying from the Free Throw Line – For Now was procured from Thriftbooks. Reading it has not only triggered old memories (for I can hear her voice as I…
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Types and Shadows
The Readings for the 2nd Thursday, Tempus per Annum (C2) They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary; for when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, “See that you make everything according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.” Hebrews 8:5 HEBREWS SPEAKS…
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