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  Today we celebrate the Feast of the Triumph of Orthodoxy; what triumph is being spoken of now? When we look around, when we look into the depths of the Orthodox faith that is dear to us, how much defeat and dejection we see – how little, it would seem, there is to celebrate. But […]

TAGS: Church, Church Fathers, faith, human weakness, icons, Incarnation, liturgy, Liturgy of St Basil, riumph of Orthodoxy, sacred tradition, spirituality, St Andrew of Crete, veneration of icons, victory of grace


 I want to draw your attention to three aspects of today’s Gospel reading. First: how terrifying it is to hear that this man was in extreme need for 38 years, broken by physical illness, shattered, and that not a single person was found to help him… And what happened to this man is happening […]

TAGS: Christ, compassion, creative actions, faith, God, Gospel reading, mercy, neighbor, sacrifice, sin, spiritual peace, spirituality, wholeness


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