ICONS & “ORTHODOXY” (Monday, March 10) Yesterday we celebrated the Sunday of Orthodoxy, which commemorates the triumph of the 7th Ecumenical Council’s teaching on icon-veneration,

THE LENTEN EXILE (Clean Monday, First Day of Lent) This past Sunday immediately preceding the beginning of Lent recalled the Exile from Paradise, inviting us

THE LAST JUDGMENT IS NOT INDIVIDUAL Monday, February 24 Here are some thoughts, my dear friends, on yesterday’s provocative Gospel-reading about The Last Judgment, Matthew

THE JOY OF OUR FATHER Monday, February 17   I’m struck this year, as we re-read and re-discover the Parable of the Prodigal Son two

“IT” WILL BE GIVEN TO YOU: WHAT IS “IT”? (Monday, February 10) “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you

“SEEING” CHRIST, THROUGH THE THEOTOKOS (Monday, February 3) Let us hasten to the Theotokos, we who want to see her Son, brought unto Simeon…./ К

BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL (January 27) “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” (Mt 5:7) When I give others a break, I find

BEING TEMPTED AFTER BAPTISM (Monday, January 20) As those of us on the Older Calendar just celebrated the feast of the Baptism of the Lord,