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
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 […]
Unity, Authenticity, and the Paranormal
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 […]
Selfless Love and the Globalization of Religion
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 18 October 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Homily/Lesson (19th Sunday after Pentecost) “But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is […]
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.