269. A PRACTICAL THEOLOGY OF TRAVEL: Introduction to Trip to Greece, 2014

I apologize for getting this Post out late. All week I’ve had a nasty Virus * and I’m not concentrating very well. Thank God and all the saints that I didn’t have air tickets to Greece this week~ Not that Virus, thank God. I had a Covid test this week, just to be sure, which was negative. […]

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268. Another Twentieth Century Saint: John Maximovitch of Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, France, Shanghai, the Philippines and San Francisco – and I hope I didn’t miss anywhere

  I know: His official title is Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco. This is because Orthodox hierarchs who are recognized as saints seem to be typically labeled according to the first place where they served as bishop. However, I think John Maximovitch – this remarkable man – really deserves the extended title I […]

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267. Heaven, Part Five: The Holy Mountain in C.S. Lewis’ “The Chronicles of Narnia”

It is time to meet Aslan the Great Lion, and visit Aslan’s Country. from “Rambling Ever On” site Last week’s Post (just in case you didn’t read it which, granted, is very hard to imagine…) included a short biography of C.S. Lewis, the “anonymous Orthodox”. Today we travel to Narnia. The Chronicles of Narnia are six […]

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266. Heaven, Part Four – C.S. Lewis, and The Holy Mountain in “The Great Divorce”

Why, you may ask, am I giving two Posts in an Orthodox Blog to an Anglican and his writings? It’s because I’ve been waiting over four years for an excuse to do this! and this is the excuse: During Pascha and Ascension season, we’ve been looking at Heaven, where Christ went “to prepare a Place” […]

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265. Heaven, Part Three – the Holy Mountain and the Garden, from “Hymns on Paradise” by Saint Ephraim the Syrian

Christ has ascended! “When You had fulfilled the dispensation for our sake, and united earth to heaven: You ascended in glory, O Christ our God, not being parted from those who love You, but remaining with them and crying: “I am with you and no one will be against you!” (Tone Six This series of Posts […]

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