HIS WAY OF SEEING
“Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own transgressions, and not to judge (κατακρίνειν, condemn) my brother, for blessed are You,...
BY PRAYER AND FASTING
“And one of the crowd answered him, ‘Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a dumb spirit; and wherever it seizes him, it dashes...
PASSING FROM DEATH TO LIFE
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life; he does not come into judgment, but has...
MID-LENTEN COMPLACENCY
“Before Your Cross we bow down, O Master, and Your holy Resurrection we glorify.” (Byzantine Hymn of the Cross, chanted on the 4th week...
COME AND LET US WALK
“For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and rebuke many...
LENT, A NEW BEGINNING
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep....
A SALVIFIC SADNESS
“By the rivers of Babylon—there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion. On the willows there we hung up our harps. For...
GOD-GIVEN SEXUALITY
“Flee fornication! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against the body itself. Or do you not...
