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Sort of like contemporary praise and worship except completely different
Eritrean Orthodox Morning Prayer Hat tip: Steve Kurian via Orthodukso on Facebook… more →
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Sort of like contemporary praise and worship except completely different
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Wei Hsien wrote 3 months ago: Eritrean Orthodox Morning Prayer Hat tip: Steve Kurian via Orthodukso on Facebook … more →
"The Lord Whom the seraphs fear to look at"
Wei Hsien wrote 4 months ago: My favorite hymn from the liturgy is this metrical homily attributed to St. Jacob of Sarug. At St. M … more →
Beautiful letdowns
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Wei Hsien wrote 4 months ago: It was a beautiful letdown When I crashed and burned, When I found myself alone, unknown and hurt. I … more →
"All of theology is here."
Wei Hsien wrote 7 months ago: Pascha. Holy Week. Essentially bright days such as are needed. And truly that is all that is needed. … more →
"The love which frees men from their loneliness": Some thoughts
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Wei Hsien wrote 8 months ago: In his autobiography, Milestones: Memoirs 1927-1977, then-Cardinal Ratzinger identified Henri de Lub … more →
Liturgy and memory
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Wei Hsien wrote 8 months ago: The liturgy, it seems to me, is a living organ of ecclesial memory holding within itself the legacy … more →
Thinking about Job, Part III: Wisdom and wonder
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Wei Hsien wrote 8 months ago: Fr. Gregory presses on with Job here and here. I don’t know if anyone is still following this … more →
Two teachers
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Wei Hsien wrote 8 months ago: The West Syriac calendar commemorates on the 2nd Saturday of the Great Fast two very important saint … more →
Fasting: Three from the Fathers
Wei Hsien wrote 9 months ago: Just as you conceal your sins from men, conceal from them also your efforts! Evagrius, Ad Eulogium … more →
Prayers for Great Lent at the St. Mary's blog
Wei Hsien wrote 9 months ago: The official weblog of our parish will feature selected prayers and a Gospel reading for each day of … more →
He did not come to die
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Wei Hsien wrote 9 months ago: Several years ago when The Passion of the Christ was released, I remember seeing posters for the fil … more →
St. Ephrem on Jonah
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Wei Hsien wrote 10 months ago: St. Ephrem the Syrian composed a cycle of hymns on the prophet Jonah in a collection called Hymns on … more →
A feast and a fast
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Wei Hsien wrote 10 months ago: Tomorrow is the Feast of the Entry of the Lord into the Temple (Mayaltho) as well as the beginning o … more →
Adapted 2009 Bible Reading Plan
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Wei Hsien wrote 10 months ago: It turned out to be a bit harder than I’d imagined, and the final product is quite different t … more →
Tolle lege!
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Wei Hsien wrote 10 months ago: After much hard work, Kevin Edgecomb with the help of Esteban Vázquez has posted the 2009 Eastern Or … more →
Freer.
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Wei Hsien wrote 10 months ago: Children playing, Ndebele Village (http://www.ndebelevillage.co.za) It’s been three months sin … more →
The Eastern Churches and the Indissolubility of Marriage (Part 2 of 2)
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Wei Hsien wrote 1 year ago: Belated Pentecostal and Day of the Holy Spirit greetings to all readers on the Julian calendar. Here … more →
"We also ascend, because we are in him by grace": St. Augustine on the Ascension
Wei Hsien wrote 1 year ago: Here is the patristic text from the Office of Readings of the Roman Rite for the Feast of the Ascens … more →
On Listening: A Sobering Insight from Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Wei Hsien wrote 1 year ago: While listening to an interview about the life of German Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, I … more →
