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His Eminence Metropolitan Saba is Archbishop of the Antiochian Christian Archdiocese of North America What follows here is one of Saedna * Saba’s consistently wise and pertinent weekly teachings. This one, published on December 5, 2025, speaks well to one of today’s issues in the Orthodox Church, which also was one of our topics in […]
Read More »Pray for the suffering people of Ukraine and the Palestinian people of Gaza and the West Bank. This will not be pleasant reading. If you want sweetness and light, come back next week. However, to your great relief and mine, I’m not going to talk about Charlie Kirk today. I’m just using him as […]
Read More »Please pray for the suffering people of Ukraine and the Palestinian people of Gaza and the West Bank. Please give through International Orthodox Christian Charities. iocc.org _______________________________________ Point One: The Orthodox Church’s View of Science and Scientific Research To sum up at the beginning: We’re all for it. In this we are unlike Fundamentalist […]
Read More »Pray for the suffering people of Ukraine and Gaza. Saint Sisoes: Why? We don’t know Sisoes’ * birthdate. We know he died in the year 429, and once confessed to having lived in the desert for 72 years – so you can count back. pronounced “SiSO-es” When he was a youth he went […]
Read More »Or, to take a another angle on the subject, this might be titled “The Sin of Fake Fasting”. Publicans and Pharisees In next Sunday’s Gospel reading (Luke 18:10-14), which I suspect you could almost recite by heart, we hear about a man who fasted diligently but was condemned by the Lord, and another man who […]
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