My Brother is My Life
As we commemorated St Anthony this past week I thought it worthwhile to look at one of his sayings: Our life and our death is with our...
Christ, the Only New Thing
It is a sort of happy coincidence that on the civil calendar the New Year begins in the midst of the Church season when we are keeping...
Cave of Birth ~ Cave of Death
For the past couple of weeks we have been comparing the hymns before Christmas with another set of hymns which inspired them, those of...
On Earth as it is in Heaven
Last week we noted that the hymnographers who composed some of the hymns for the forefeast of Nativity deliberately modeled them on the...
The Mystery of the Manger
One of the ways that we can prepare for the upcoming feast of our Lord’s Nativity is through pondering the hymns of the feast. When we...
The Cave of the Heart
Having begun the Nativity Fast and survived Thanksgiving, we begin in earnest to prepare for the Nativity of Christ. I would like to ask...
One Hour in Dachau
It’s Thanksgiving, that time of year when we are reminded to be thankful for all of the good things in our life - family, health, a job,...
A Vision of the Church
I had a vision a few weeks ago. I don't mean a full-fledged, “pull back the curtain, transported to Heaven” vision. But I did have a sort...
Grow Down
We spend much of our childhood, and particularly our teenage years, waiting impatiently to grow up. Observing the privileges and...
Praying from the Cross
Many people, like Job’s wife, base their theology on their circumstances. Job’s wife, seeing what was happening to Job, decided that God...
