Up until the period when the Cappadocians undertook to develop a solution to the trinitarian problems, an identifying of ousia with hypostasis implied that a thing’s concrete individuality (hypostasis) means simply that it is (i.e. its ousia). Now, however, changes occurred. The term hypostasis was dissociated from that of ousia and became identified with that […]
Read MoreThe meaning of asceticism consists in the fact that the less one makes one’s hypostasis rely on nature, on the substance, the more one is hypostasized as a person. In this way asceticism does not deny “nature” but frees it from the ontological necessity of the biological hypostasis; and it enables it to be in […]
Read MoreThe cause of being comes from Him to all things that exist, according to the will of God the Father. Through him structure and preservation are given to all things, or He created everything, and dispenses well-being to all things, according to the need of each. Therefore all things are turned toward Him, looking with […]
Read MoreRecently, we were asked about a lecture on Icons, given at our parish several years ago by Retired Archbishop Lazar Puhalo, of Monastery of All Saints of North America, in Dewdney, B.C. This lecture was recorded at that time, and is posted on You-Tube. The URL below should take you there. Other lectures and homilies […]
Read MoreFreedom is a being’s power to flourish as what it naturally is, to become ever more fully what it is. The freedom of an oak seed is its uninterrupted growth into an oak tree. The freedom of a rational spirit is its consummation in union with God. Freedom is never then the mere “negative liberty” […]
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March 28, 2023
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