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Lent 5: Praying with the Pilgrim — Starting with the Jesus Prayer
Anything for Jesus: St. Simeon Stylites
I’ve always known in my bones that we should celebrate New Year’s Day on September 1. New pencils. Empty notebooks. Fresh eager faces. New classes to take or to teach. That is when it all starts for me. I’m now very happy to discover that the Orthodox Church had the same idea centuries ago. September […]
Courtroom Drama: Why You Need Jesus to Be Human (Heidelberg Catechism Q. 16)
When you go to a movie you play a little trick on yourself. It is called “suspension of disbelief.” For about an hour and a half you watch in terror as asteroids smash the earth, or dolls transform themselves into monsters. You cheer for the hero — even when that hero is striving to do […]
The Holy Name of Jesus (via Heidelberg Catechism Q. 29)
It is January 1, the eighth day of Christmas. I suppose what comes to mind most quickly is the strange gift of “eight maids a milking.” (How on earth were they wrapped?) In the Anglican communion, and in some past periods for the Catholic Church, this is the day to remember “The Holy Name of […]
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