OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 22 November 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Homily/Lesson (24th Sunday after Pentecost) Epistle: Ephesians (2: 14-22) For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments […]
Baptism and Baptismal Liturgy
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 15 November 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Homily/Lesson (23rd Sunday after Pentecost; Baptismal Readings) Welcome guests. Beautiful day. I am so happy that the [family] agreed to allow us to Baptize [their child] during Divine Liturgy. Nothing wrong with doing it after Liturgy: this is the way most of […]
Segregation, Unity, and Music
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 08 November 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Homily/Lesson (22nd Sunday after Pentecost) Preface: Division is killing us. Not just war. But the divisions within our hearts. Fort Hood: fruit of internal discord. Less visible with us, but still destroys those around us. Christ came to heal all divisions: both […]
Pluralism and Spiritual Warfare
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 01 November 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Well, I seem to have written over and lost the notes for this show (I usually copy the previous show notes to use a template for the next one… in this case I accidently wrote over them!). They included a homily providing […]
Cheerful Giving and Gadgets
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 11 October 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful […]
Stigmata, Music, Priestwives, and Redeeming Time
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 4 October 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Mail Call: What did you mean about crucifixes, stigmata and stations of the cross? Basic point was that the Orthodox tend to focus on the transformative effects of the Resurrection. There is a trajectory, even in the East, that reveled in defeating […]
Rationality, Suffering, and an Ordination
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 27 September 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. 2 Corinthians 4: 6 – 15 & St. Matthew 22: 35 – 46 For the first part, go here. The second part was an interview with Fr. Dn. Borislav Kroner. For the third part, go here.
Feasting, Equilibria, and Afghanistan
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 13 September 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. 2 Corinthians 1: 21-2:4 & St. Matthew 22: 1 – 14 Stories are one of the ways that we preserve our culture; they help remind us of who we are, where we came from, and what the world is like. Sometimes these […]
No Logic without Love
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 6 September 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. 1 Corinthians 16: 13-24; St. Matthew 21: 33-42 [Then Jesus spoke this parable]: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to […]
Believing in Vain, Movies, Vestigial Communitarianism
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 30 August 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. 1 Corinthians 15: 1-11 St. Matthew 19: 16-26 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word […]