Its [i.e., the soul’s] definition, the Teacher replied, has been attempted in different ways by different writers, each according to his own bent; but the following is our opinion about it. The soul is an essence created, and living, and intellectual, transmitting from itself to an organized and sentient body the power of living and […]
Read MoreWhen we give our hearts with our alms, we give well, but we must often plead to a failure in this respect. Not so our Master and our Lord. His favors are always performed with the love of His heart. He does not send to us the cold meat and the broken pieces from the […]
Read MoreHence if a man whose conscience accuses him of evil calls God his Father, he asserts precisely that God is the cause and origin of his own wickedness. But there is no fellowship of light with darkness, says the Apostle; but light associates with light and justice was what is just, beauty with what is […]
Read MoreNow if man came into existence for this purpose – namely to be made a partaker of the divine goodness, he must have been created with a propensity for sharing in that goodness. In the case of physical sight the eye partakes of light by virtue of a beam of light with which the eye […]
Read MoreThe world we inhabit — the world our imaginations know and within which our deepest desires must move — is the world after Darwin (and Marx and Freud and a host of other prophets of disenchantment, but first and foremost Darwin); we simply cannot now (if we are paying attention) imagine a universe whose grandeurs […]
Read MoreUp 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 […]
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June 9, 2023
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