Category: ByzCath
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Born this way
Thoughts on healing the man born blind. Do we realize how huge this is? To the ancients it was impressive, but we can now see it’s more than just a “medical miracle”. It’s an instant change in the man’s whole internal structures. What can God not do?
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You Gotta Wanna
When Jesus asks us if we’re ready, are we really ready? NO, *really*?
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Of Body Counts
St Mary of Sgypt had, as the cool kids say, a high body count. God turned that into her path to himself.
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Continuing 1812
A meditation with a musical connection between the Sunday of the Cross and our on-going struggle against the French, the Freemasons and the Marxists, um… I mean… the World, the Flesh, and the Devil.
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Those Other Icons
When we venerate icons, the worship paid to the image passes to the prototype. That’s not just a teaching of the Church, it is a spiritual truth. And it doesn’t matter which icons we venerate. Or rather, it matters very much.
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Taste and See
Some thoughts on the Eastern Churches and Evangelism.
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Forgiveness Sunday
Thoughts on forgiveness Sunday, the Expulsion from Paradise, and ministry to the homeless.
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Meatfare Sunday
Thoughts on the Gospel of the Last Judgement, feeding the poor, and clothing the naked.
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Which one are you?
Never dawned on me before but the publican was probably far richer than the Pharisee. He was also, as far as secular power goes, better situated between the political authority of the Romans and the suck-up power of the Sadducees. But he still gets it.
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Zacandleusmas
What we do is in response to what God is doing. Always. Scriptures:
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Sunday b4 Nativity
Vlog post: reflections on the Sunday of the Forefathers, the genealogy of Jesus, the Hypostatic Union, and the “war on Christmas.”
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Never Skip Thorns
Jesus heals everyone… except St Paul. Why?
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Who Else Sows?
Today’s Gospel is the Parable of the Sower. Who else has sown seeds and how are the growing?
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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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