Today is the feast of St. Benedict. This morning at mass, Fr. Tom Francis (who works with me at the Abbey Store) preached on the Rule and on his life experience as a Trappist monk for over 50 years no… more →
The Website of Unknowingtasersedge wrote 1 month ago: A friend of mine recently sent me this article, “C.S. Lewis and the Doctrine of Deification … more →
Damon Whitsell wrote 8 months ago: Mormon Exaltation (eternal progression), Theosis, Apotheosis, and INTENTIONAL MORMON DECIET By Damon … more →
Leo Peter O'Filon wrote 9 months ago: No, I wasn’t one of those kids who enjoyed reading dictionaries (much) … but you may do … more →
Leo Peter O'Filon wrote 9 months ago: Have you ever heard a couple million people cheer all at once? Have you ever heard them continue ch … more →
Leo Peter O'Filon wrote 9 months ago: From St. Feofil, the Fool for Christ’s Sake, courtesy of this blog: If you are praised, be sil … more →
Leo Peter O'Filon wrote 9 months ago: Every time I made it to Divine Liturgy while he was with my parish, or just about,* the priest who C … more →
Leo Peter O'Filon wrote 9 months ago: From Saint Symeon the New Theologian, one of the key Fathers of the Church (his feast is commemorate … more →
Leo Peter O'Filon wrote 10 months ago: More from Metr. Anthony Bloom: …we must remember that ‘to glorify’ in Greek does n … more →
[] wrote 10 months ago: You’re coming within earshot in the middle of this conversation… Gregory: … well, … more →
Carl McColman wrote 1 year ago: Today is the feast of St. Benedict. This morning at mass, Fr. Tom Francis (who works with me at the … more →
Leo Peter O'Filon wrote 1 year ago: I just ran across local newspaper science columnist Faye Flam’s old article (PDF) about specul … more →
zoecarnate wrote 1 year ago: So I’ve blogged for ages and ages about retooling sung worship, and adding more of the earthy … more →
Leo Peter O'Filon wrote 1 year ago: Says an Antiochian Orthodox bookstore owner in Wichita, Kansas,* in this 2002 Publishers Weekly roun … more →
Leo Peter O'Filon wrote 1 year ago: NEOPHYTE OPINION ALERT Numerous Orthodox hymns and prayers include the past tenses of the verb to sh … more →
Leo Peter O'Filon wrote 1 year ago: I just found an intriguing ‘inside look’ in a public letter to his priests by then-Rulin … more →
Leo Peter O'Filon wrote 1 year ago: An Akathist (sometimes spelled Akafist or Acathistos, etc.) is a poetic or quasi-poetic devotional s … more →
Leo Peter O'Filon wrote 1 year ago: Italy’s former Orthodoxy is attested by the ancient icons and Greek icon-style murals and mosa … more →
Leo Peter O'Filon wrote 1 year ago: OK, OK, now that we’ve all had a laugh over a Vatican bureaucrat-archbishop’s politicall … more →
Leo Peter O'Filon wrote 3 years ago: John 7:17 (NKJV): If anyone wants to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it … more →