Homily – Confession and Pentecost

20110612: Homily on Confession IV This Sunday, Fr. Anthony concludes a series of homilies designed to help prepare the First Confession class for their “Second Baptism.”  This week presents three images that help explain the relationship between Pentecost (and especially the Holy Spirit) and Confession. Acts of the Apostles: 2:1-11 St. John 7:37-52;8:12 Introduction Pentecost […]

Homily – Confession and the Great “I AM”

Confession and the Great “I AM” Acts of the Apostles: 20:16-18,28-36 St. John 17:1-13 The Sunday of the Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council This Sunday, I continued a series of homilies designed to help prepare the First Confession class for their “Second Baptism.” This week focuses on the roles God plays in Confession to […]

20110517 Uploading Minds, Bin Laden, and Death

Christ is Risen!  Indeed He is Risen! It is such a joy to be back in the OrthoAnalytika studio (which, by the way has moved again… this time into a dedicated man-cave in the attic).  Today, we are testing a new format: I have created a new podcast (OrthoAdoration) for sharing the sounds of worship […]

20110429 Pawlo’s Greatest Hits

Click Here to Listen/Download All Pawlo, All the Time In this episode, I prolong my break from discussing things like nephilim, singularities, and the immortality of the soul in order to do what sitcoms do during writer’s strike:  a best-of/flashback show.  The size of our audience has really grown over the last year, so many […]

20110304 Lent, News, and Evangelizing Moral Therapeutic Deists

The USB Symbol: a Sign of  Ukrainian Orthodoxy’s Global Influence!!! Shownotes for 20110221Lesson: Lenten Epistle of the Permanent Conference of Ukrainian Orthodox Bishops beyond the Borders of Ukraine [Musical Interlude is the Lenten Prokimen “Turn not away Thy Face”, available here by St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in San Anselmo, CA.] Mail Call:Question from a new reader/listener:  Why doesn’t […]

20110221 The Ontology of Evil

Shownotes for 20110221Lesson:Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron… But reject profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise yourself toward godliness.  For bodily exercise profits […]

20110128 The Sacramental Ontology of Beauty

CLICK HERE FOR THE MP3Opening Lesson:“Beauty will save the world.”  Prince Myshkin (recounted by Hippolyte) in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot.One of the things that leads truly rational and open-minded people to reject pure materialism and atheism is their superficial and patently absurd explanation of the many blessings that flow into creation from her uncreated Creator. […]

20110105 Christian Orienteering, News, and an Interview with a New Priest

Shownotes for 20100105 Show (click here to download) Homily on the Reading of the Names and the Birth of Christ (St. Matthew 1) Three points: what we are to do with all these names; the standard of evaluation; and the place of Christ in all this. 1.  Ancestors – the reading of the names.  Why […]

20101217 Hypocrisy, News, and WikiLeaks

20101217 OrthoAnalytika Shownotes (click here for MP3) +++ Lesson: The Hypocrisy of Defending Bad Habits and Rules (St. Luke 13: 10-17)This Gospel lesson is profound. Today I would like to focus on three things that it teaches us. One: You Really Should Come to Church The first has to do with the context of the […]

20101208 Interview with Fr. James Early

20101208 Shownotes (click to listen/download) Colossians 1: 12-18 Who is the Christ? • He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. • He is the one, by whom “all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities […]