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Category: Speaking to the Soul

“Getting a do-over”

October 2, 2011 No Comments

Psalm 118 (morning), Psalm 145 (evening) 2 Kings 20:1-21 Acts 12:1-17 Luke 7:11-17 “Getting a do-over” seems to be the theme in today’s readings. Hezekiah

Saturday October 1

October 1, 2011 No Comments

Choosing Now when Jesus saw great crowds around him, he gave orders to go over to the other side. A scribe then approached and said,

Border Territory

September 30, 2011 1 Comment

Today we have two of Matthew’s stories about Jesus operating around and across the borders of Jewish society.

How Do We Know?

September 28, 2011 No Comments

How do we know what is the will of God? How can we give priority to God’s will rather than to our self-centered motivation?

How many injustices and how much violence might have been avoided had Christians been faithful to our Rabbi and his teaching: “Do not judge… How can you say to your neighbor, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while the log is in your own eye? …In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets.”

Two Phrases

September 26, 2011 No Comments

Indeed, if the economic admonitions of the Lord’s Prayer and the other parts of this sermon were actually practiced, the needs that we worry about — “what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body what you will wear” — such needs would be eliminated.

Sergius, Abbot of Holy Trinity

September 25, 2011 No Comments

Psalm 87 Proverbs 4:1-9 1 John 2:15-17 Luke 8:16-21 When the Metropolitan Alexis felt his life was drawing to a close, he summoned Sergius to

Saturday September 24

September 24, 2011 1 Comment

[B]ut obeying the commandments of God is everything. Let each of you remain in the condition in which you were called. Were you a slave

The Reward

September 23, 2011 No Comments

“Just do my will; it is enough.” And to this I would always reply in a very down-to-earth way: “It’s easy for you to say! I just can’t do it. It’s not enough for me. I need a reward. If it’s not people’s good thoughts, if it’s not the applause, if it’s not my image, then I must have something.

Lift Up Your Hearts

September 22, 2011 No Comments

“The next exclamation of the celebrant, ‘let us lift up our hearts,’ we find in no other service–it belongs exclusively to the divine liturgy [i.e.,