20101217 OrthoAnalytika Shownotes (click here for MP3) +++ Lesson: The Hypocrisy of Defending Bad Habits and Rules (St. Luke 13: 10-17)This Gospel lesson is profound. Today I would like to focus on three things that it teaches us. One: You Really Should Come to Church The first has to do with the context of the […]
20101208 Interview with Fr. James Early
December 8, 2010 By
20101208 Shownotes (click to listen/download) Colossians 1: 12-18 Who is the Christ? • He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. • He is the one, by whom “all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities […]
UFOs, Jersey Shore, and Freedom
November 9, 2010 By
Orthoanalytika show: 20101109 +++ Lesson: Nothing Need Divide Us Ephesians 2:14-22; St. Luke 16: 19-31 Unity: a source of peace and joyBoth readings reinforce the consistent message of the Gospel: there are no divisions in love. Pride, meanness, apathy, lust, addiction, greed, jealousy… these things pull us apart; and while they are easy and […]
Leasing the Vineyard, Church News, and Conversion
August 22, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Show: 22 August 2010 [Review of the parable as a reminder and warning to the Jews. But what does it mean for us?] As we learned last year at this time, the landownder is God; he has leased us this land – our homes, jobs, income, time, even our church – to work for […]
House Building, WikiLeaks, and the Spirituality of Technology
July 25, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Show: 25 July 2010 1 Corinthians 3:9-17. CIX! Three points from today’s Epistle reading, each of them explores what St. Paul means when he says that ; “You are God’s building… his holy temple.” The First Point: St. Paul is using a metaphor. He is comparing you to a building in order to teach […]
The Foolishness of Humility, Leaving Food for the Dead, and an Interview on Monasticism in New England
July 18, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Show: 18 July 2010 EPISTLE: 1 Corinthians 1:10-18. Listen to how St. Paul begins today’s lesson; “Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the […]
The Responsibility of the Strong, Real Ukrainians, and the Theology of Ghosts
July 11, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Show: 11 July 2010 Thoughts on Romans 15: 1-7: the responsibility of the strong How should the Christian act? Certainly people who make such a grand claim about their identity should behave differently than mere mortals! After all, the name “Christian” is meant to signify more than just what a person does on Sunday […]
Mothers Day and the Suffering of Innocents
May 9, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Show: 9 May 2010 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast Happy Mother’s Day! Thanks to all of our mothers – not just those with children of their own, but all the ladies who take the time to love the many children of the world and of this parish family. We need you […]
A Paralytic, the Woman at the Well, and More on an Orthodox Political Economy
May 2, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Show: 2 May 2010 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast Homily on the Paralytic: Acts 9: 32 – 42; St. John 5 : 1 – 15 Introduction: Healing, not ReligionOur readings today give examples of Christ’s ministry to mankind (in the healing of the paralytic), and how this ministry has continued through […]
A Defense of Orthodox Mysticism
March 2, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 28 February 2010 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast Saint Gregory Palamas – a witness we need Orthodoxy is real. Spiritual warfare is real. By this, I mean that the God who made this world and everything in it really has created a mystical path that can lead all of us […]
