535. Saint Augustine of Hippo: superb pastor, preacher, author, loving father, and theologian – but whose theology inadvertantly confused Western Christianity for fifteen centuries

  Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!     Saint Augustine of Hippo commemorated on June 15 But…but… you say, today isn’t June 15. It’s May 15. You are correct. Explanation: senility? Over the years I’ve made a long list of saints who I think would make interesting reading. Somehow I got Saint Augustine […]

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534. “Arise!” Here is this Sunday’s sermon two days early.

      I am to present the Homily at Saint Nicholas Church, Cedarburg, this Sunday. I can only keep so many ideas in my mind at one time, so you all are about to read my Sunday “sermon”. (Any members of Saint Nicholas here present have my permission either to stop reading now, or […]

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533. “Are You Saved?” the Orthodox understanding of Salvation

      Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!   “Here’s how we do it. We visit people, and we ask ‘Do you want to be sure you’re going to Heaven?’ Most of them say ‘Yes’.  Then we say: ‘Just recite these words: “I accept Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior”, and […]

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532. 1) The Newly-revealed Martyrs of Mytilene, 2) Father Alexander Schmemann on Division and Unity, 3) Pope Francis

Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!   ______________________________________ The Holy Martyrs the Priest Raphael, Irene and the Deacon Nicholas  commemorated on Bright Tuesday each year Previously forgotten and unknown, these Fifteenth Century martyrs first revealed themselves to the world in 1959! This is an amazing, wonderful story. I wrote about it only a few […]

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531. P.S. How the Theotokos learned of the Resurrection

I promised to write no more, and I meant it. But there’s something important I forgot. My dear cousin Jacklyn wrote to say she identified with the sufferings of the Virgin Mary, as surely have a million mothers who have suffered great loss. I wrote in an earlier Post of how the Theotokos * suffered […]

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