OrthoAnalyika Show: 11 July 2010 Thoughts on Romans 15: 1-7: the responsibility of the strong How should the Christian act? Certainly people who make such a grand claim about their identity should behave differently than mere mortals! After all, the name “Christian” is meant to signify more than just what a person does on Sunday […]
Freedom, Independence Day, and Interview on the Holodomor
July 4, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Show: 04 July 2010 Freedom! [The history of it in our community. Ukrainian freedom (especially the Cossacks). American freedom (the minutemen, the founders).] Cossacks and the Minutemen were willing to work and even fight to defend their freedom from political tyranny. But there is an even more important kind of freedom than this that […]
Censing During Ukrainian Orthodox Funerals
June 15, 2010 By
Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast Censing during Ukrainian Orthodox Funeral Services Preface: During the funeral, the priest stands with the deacon at the west end of the coffin, except during the incensations (at the Evloghitaria of the Departed, the Kondak, and at Eternal Memory, see below). It is proper to have […]
Funeral Homily-Unity in Christ
June 5, 2010 By
Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast If there is one common theme that runs through the Good News of Christianity, it is Unity. [E.g. The Unity of Mankind; the Unity of God; the Unity of the Soul and Body.] The Psalmist declares (Ps 133:1) “Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren […]
The Time in Between and the Theology of Ghosts
May 16, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Show: 16 May 2010 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast In between time. This summarizes so much for us. We seem to be living in the time between one thing and another. • Fr. Dn. Ivan. Time between graduation and ordination. The time between being put on the path towards the priesthood […]
Mothers Day and the Suffering of Innocents
May 9, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Show: 9 May 2010 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast Happy Mother’s Day! Thanks to all of our mothers – not just those with children of their own, but all the ladies who take the time to love the many children of the world and of this parish family. We need you […]
Screwtape Letters, Class 7 (chapters 22-31)
May 5, 2010 By
CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Class 7 (Final Class)Chapters 22-31 Chapter 22Why is Wormwood sickened by the woman the patient has fallen in love with? Why do pleasures need to be twisted before they are of use to the demons? What is the difference between noise, music, & silence? Chapter 23What does the modern version […]
Screwtape Letters, Class 6 (chapters 17-21)
May 4, 2010 By
CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Class 6Chapters 17-21 Another story of spiritual warfare: 1 Kings 18: 20-39 Chapter 17It seems that there are two types of gluttony: Delicacy and Excess. What are the differences? Is one worse than the other? In Lewis’ time, gluttony of delicacy was more prominent. What about now? Knowing that sin […]
Screwtape Letters, Class 5 (chapters 13-16)
May 3, 2010 By
CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Class Five Background Information on Spiritual Warfare: Where do demons come from? Revelation 12:9: And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. What […]
Screwtape Letters, Class 4 (chapters 9-12)
May 2, 2010 By
CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Class Four Another Real Case Study of Spiritual WarfareFrom The Acts of the Apostles (16:16-18) Now it happened, as we [Paul et al] went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling. This girl followed […]
