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 […]
Victory, Suffering, and Footsteps in the Dark
February 25, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 21 February 2010 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast The Triumph of True-Worship and Defeat of Iconoclasm(and why it matters) Note about length of services. This is traditionally a time of catechetical instruction, so sermons may be longer than usual. Your priest will do what he can to ensure that this […]
Fasting, Forgiveness, and Avatar
February 14, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 14 February 2010 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast An Epistle to Kick-off the Fast +++ Catechetical Homily On the Commencement of Holy and Great Lent +BARTHOLOMEW By God’s Mercy Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome, and Ecumenical Patriarch To the Plenitude of the Church Grace and Peace be to you from […]
Old RItualists, Humility, Charity, and Death
January 27, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 24 January 2010 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. The Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee All humans, by dent of our fallen psychology, are tempted to be more like the Pharisee than the Publican. Scientists have proven that we are more critical towards others and far too charitable towards […]
Theophany and an Interview on Raising Saints
January 18, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 17 January 2010 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Christ is baptized! In the Jordan! Congratulations to all those who were brought into the Orthodox Church this week. Our obligation – as parishioners and priests – is to make everything good and proper seem natural. Christ is quite clear: it would […]
Orthodoxy and the Paranormal
January 11, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 10 January 2010 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Christ is born! Glorify Him! There is a charge that is often made against the Orthodox Church and Christianity in general that it is not relevant. That it does not have anything to add to the lives of the modern man or […]
Disrespecting God and a Conversation on Charity
December 27, 2009 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 27 December 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Homily/Lesson (Two Sundays before the Nativity) Colossians (3: 4-11) When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and […]
Thankfulness, More Movies, and Spiritual Ambiguity
December 20, 2009 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 20 December 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Homily/Lesson (28th Sunday after Pentecost) Gospel: St. Luke (17: 12-19) Then as He entered a certain village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off. And they lifted up their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on […]
Children of Light and Paranormal Movies
December 13, 2009 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 13 December 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Homily/Lesson (26th Sunday after Pentecost) Ephesians 5: 8 – 19 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light. (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), finding […]
Try It before You Knock It
December 4, 2009 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 29 November 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Homily/Lesson (25th Sunday after Pentecost) Ephesians 4: 1-6 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring […]
