The Responsibility of the Strong, Real Ukrainians, and the Theology of Ghosts

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 … [Continue reading]

Freedom, Independence Day, and Interview on the Holodomor

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 … [Continue reading]

Censing During Ukrainian Orthodox Funerals

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 … [Continue reading]

Funeral Homily-Unity in Christ

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) … [Continue reading]

The Time in Between and the Theology of Ghosts

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. … [Continue reading]

Mothers Day and the Suffering of Innocents

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 … [Continue reading]

Screwtape Letters, Class 7 (chapters 22-31)

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 … [Continue reading]

Screwtape Letters, Class 6 (chapters 17-21)

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 … [Continue reading]

Screwtape Letters, Class 5 (chapters 13-16)

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: … [Continue reading]

Screwtape Letters, Class 4 (chapters 9-12)

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 … [Continue reading]