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Send out Thy Light and Thy Truth...: You Are Anointed With the Holy Spirit: The Mystery of Chrismation
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Send out Thy Light and Thy Truth. Ramblings theological, philosophical and spiritual by one of the world's least influential minds. Saturday, November 13, 2010. You Are Anointed With the Holy Spirit: The Mystery of Chrismation. This semester, at. I am taking a course in the theology of the Mysteries (i.e. sacraments) of "Initiation." To the Orthodox/Catholic mind these mysteries include the rites of. And Reception of the. One of my assignments for the course was. Although I am a recent convert to the.
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Send out Thy Light and Thy Truth...: July 2008
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Send out Thy Light and Thy Truth. Ramblings theological, philosophical and spiritual by one of the world's least influential minds. Tuesday, July 15, 2008. This morning I read this article. From 2003 about evangelisation in the postmodern world. I thought his likening evangelism to "spam vs. open source" is a good analogy. We now go on-line with dread, wondering how many organ extensions and sexual enhancements we'll get offered. Leaflets stuck in a letterbox. Words shouted on a street corner. Meanwhile,...
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Send out Thy Light and Thy Truth...: October 2011
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Send out Thy Light and Thy Truth. Ramblings theological, philosophical and spiritual by one of the world's least influential minds. Monday, October 31, 2011. Of Vampires and the Virgin. Last week as I was headed out the door to do some grocery shopping, my 6-year-old son asked if he could go with me. About half-way to the grocery store I heard, from the back seat, my sons voice reading hesitantly, but largely correctly, words of the Gospel regarding the baptism of John. To this day I credit my lack of fe...
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Anglican Yinzer: December 2012
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Sunday, December 30, 2012. By The Very Rev. Dr. Donald P. Richmond. Over the past number of years increased attention has been given to evangelization. Originally rooted in the Roman Catholic Church, other denominations have also sought to re-present the gospel of Christ in ways that are far more comprehensible to modern / postmodern culture. Anglicans have also sought to re-form the ancient faith in ways that are far more palatable or pertinent. Where the anonymous author tells us that we must do these ...
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Send out Thy Light and Thy Truth...: St. Gregory of Nyssa on Prayer
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Send out Thy Light and Thy Truth. Ramblings theological, philosophical and spiritual by one of the world's least influential minds. Thursday, August 12, 2010. St Gregory of Nyssa on Prayer. By means of five Sermons on the Lord's Prayer. St Gregory of Nyssa. The very first thing Gregory addresses is the absolute need. A second thing Gregory points out is the outcome. Of prayer. "For the effect of prayer," he writes, "is union. Through prayer we guard our chastity, control our temper, and rid ourselves of ...
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Send out Thy Light and Thy Truth...: August 2010
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Send out Thy Light and Thy Truth. Ramblings theological, philosophical and spiritual by one of the world's least influential minds. Thursday, August 12, 2010. St John Cassian on the Demon of Anger. Treatise "On the Eight Vices," preserved in the. But this approach - of just versus unjust anger - is not the Byzantine approach. Indeed, the casting out of the money changers itself implies that the one doing the casting is himself righteous. Which of us could claim that money had no hold on us? And, in a fea...
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Send out Thy Light and Thy Truth...: The First Sunday in Lent: The Triumph of Orthodoxy
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Send out Thy Light and Thy Truth. Ramblings theological, philosophical and spiritual by one of the world's least influential minds. Sunday, February 21, 2010. The First Sunday in Lent: The Triumph of Orthodoxy. This past Friday I experienced my first Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts. And this morning was the first Sunday in Lent, a day on which Orthodox and Byzantine Christians traditionally celebrate The Triumph of Orthodoxy. Being a celebration of the ultimate victory of the orthodox iconodules.
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Send out Thy Light and Thy Truth...: November 2010
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Send out Thy Light and Thy Truth. Ramblings theological, philosophical and spiritual by one of the world's least influential minds. Saturday, November 13, 2010. You Are Anointed With the Holy Spirit: The Mystery of Chrismation. This semester, at. I am taking a course in the theology of the Mysteries (i.e. sacraments) of "Initiation." To the Orthodox/Catholic mind these mysteries include the rites of. And Reception of the. One of my assignments for the course was. Although I am a recent convert to the.
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Send out Thy Light and Thy Truth...: St. John Cassian on the Demon of Anger
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Send out Thy Light and Thy Truth. Ramblings theological, philosophical and spiritual by one of the world's least influential minds. Thursday, August 12, 2010. St John Cassian on the Demon of Anger. Treatise "On the Eight Vices," preserved in the. But this approach - of just versus unjust anger - is not the Byzantine approach. Indeed, the casting out of the money changers itself implies that the one doing the casting is himself righteous. Which of us could claim that money had no hold on us? And, in a fea...