As we (Orthodox Christians) enter the last week of Lent prior to Holy Week, I wanted to post a few random thoughts/prayers that I wrote out this morning pertaining to the essence of Lent and Pascha (Easter). Why do we fast? Why do we lament? Why do we recognize these things? I hope you find … Continue reading
O Father, forgive me, a sinner, for the words I am about to speak to you. For I am a fallen and finite creature, who am I to address the Holy and Infinite one? I am ashamed that the impure should address He who alone is pure. Please forgive me for the inadequacy of my … Continue reading
Lord, please have mercy Our world is so dissonant What do we make of atrocity The insane claims the life of the innocent Into Your hands we commit their tiny souls As we are left and our tears swell And their lives we extol Accept them Father for they have endured Hell For … Continue reading
This was previously posted in 2010, but it feels appropriate to post it again: What among your creation is like you, O God? What in your creation can be compared to you? Shall we point to the tallest peaks in order to match your majesty? Yet your majesty towers over them. Shall we look to … Continue reading
Today I wanted to pass on this beautiful prayer that my wife shared with me. She read it in a devotional book by Molly Sabourin entitled Close to Home which I highly recommend. It is the prayer of Metropolitan Philaret of the Orthodox Church. Please read it carefully, meditate on its content, and make it … Continue reading
Fox News reported that U.S. District Judge Fred Biery has ruled that participants in Medina Valley High School’s graduation ceremony cannot pray, invoke the name of God, say “amen,” and that the program itself must change certain words on its program that may give off religious connotations. Of course, being Fox News, the entire story isn’t … Continue reading
We now come to the end St. John’s cosmological argument. We see that all things must either be created or uncreated. There simply is no in-between for them. Something cannot be not created and not uncreated; it must be created or uncreated. We also know that if something is mutable it is created and if … Continue reading
You counted it nothing to abandon your place in Heaven, O Word, to take on our flesh, on our behalf, to rescue us from ourselves. How could we ever dream of such a God who would love us enough to die for us? But you did more; you lived as us so as to redeem … Continue reading
Who am I to be so bold as to declare to you who you are? I offer this prayer up humbly to you my Lord, knowing that you are the Alpha and Omega. You are beyond me. It is in your mystery that I find clarity. It is in your hidden nature that I find … Continue reading
Anonymous prayer requests can sometimes cast a dark shadow on this world. People put up prayers for their children who have cancer. One mother asked for prayer for her heroin-addicted teenager. One man pleaded for prayers over a broken marriage and a wife that was cheating on him. Another man spoke of how he didn’t … Continue reading
