OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 29 November 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Homily/Lesson (25th Sunday after Pentecost) Ephesians 4: 1-6 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring […]
ON THE FIRST SUNDAY of the Great Fast our Church celebrates the triumph of Orthodoxy, the victory of true Christian teaching over all perversions and distortions thereof—heresies and false teachings. On the second Sunday of the Great Fast it is as though this triumph of Orthodoxy is repeated and deepened in connection with the celebration of the memory of one of the greatest pillars of Orthodoxy, the hierarch Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica, who by his grace-bearing eloquence and the example of his highly ascetic private life put to shame the teachers of falsehood who dared reject the very essence of.Orthodoxy, the podvig of prayer and fasting, which enlightens the human mind with the light of grace and makes it a communicant of the divine glory.
Unity, Authenticity, and the Paranormal
November 22, 2009 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 22 November 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Homily/Lesson (24th Sunday after Pentecost) Epistle: Ephesians (2: 14-22) For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments […]
Baptism and Baptismal Liturgy
November 15, 2009 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 15 November 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Homily/Lesson (23rd Sunday after Pentecost; Baptismal Readings) Welcome guests. Beautiful day. I am so happy that the [family] agreed to allow us to Baptize [their child] during Divine Liturgy. Nothing wrong with doing it after Liturgy: this is the way most of […]
Segregation, Unity, and Music
November 8, 2009 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 08 November 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Homily/Lesson (22nd Sunday after Pentecost) Preface: Division is killing us. Not just war. But the divisions within our hearts. Fort Hood: fruit of internal discord. Less visible with us, but still destroys those around us. Christ came to heal all divisions: both […]
Pluralism and Spiritual Warfare
November 1, 2009 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 01 November 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Well, I seem to have written over and lost the notes for this show (I usually copy the previous show notes to use a template for the next one… in this case I accidently wrote over them!). They included a homily providing […]
Cheerful Giving and Gadgets
October 11, 2009 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 11 October 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful […]
Stigmata, Music, Priestwives, and Redeeming Time
October 4, 2009 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 4 October 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Mail Call: What did you mean about crucifixes, stigmata and stations of the cross? Basic point was that the Orthodox tend to focus on the transformative effects of the Resurrection. There is a trajectory, even in the East, that reveled in defeating […]
Rationality, Suffering, and an Ordination
September 27, 2009 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 27 September 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. 2 Corinthians 4: 6 – 15 & St. Matthew 22: 35 – 46 For the first part, go here. The second part was an interview with Fr. Dn. Borislav Kroner. For the third part, go here.
Feasting, Equilibria, and Afghanistan
September 13, 2009 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 13 September 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. 2 Corinthians 1: 21-2:4 & St. Matthew 22: 1 – 14 Stories are one of the ways that we preserve our culture; they help remind us of who we are, where we came from, and what the world is like. Sometimes these […]
No Logic without Love
September 6, 2009 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 6 September 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. 1 Corinthians 16: 13-24; St. Matthew 21: 33-42 [Then Jesus spoke this parable]: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to […]
