St. Cyril on the Circumcision and Meeting of the Lord

To wrap up the season before Lent, let’s here from St. Cyril: …we have seen Him Who as God is the Legislator, subject to His own decrees. [circumcision] is pregnant with the graceful type of a mystery, or rather contains the hidden manifestation of the truth. …after His circumcision, the rite was done away by [...]

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The Blindness of Satan

Related to yesterday’s selection from Fr. Pavel, I chanced upon this by St. Ephrem the Syrian: When then Enemy sees that Christ, the true Light, is with us, he will not dare to look at us at all, for the light that is in us blinds his eyes.

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In the beginning was the Word

Listen, you deaf men who say that the Son is the work and creation of God the Father: understand what name the Evangelist has given to the Son of God. He called Him Word. But you name Him work and creation. He is Word, not work or creation. Blessed Theophylact Technorati: Blessed Theophylact Word theology [...]

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The height of stupidity

“But the Pharisees said, He casteth out demons through the prince of demons.” (Matt 9:34) These words are the height of stupidity, for no demon casts out other demons. But let us suppose that He cast out demons as one who served the prince of demons, that is, as a magician. How then did He [...]

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On Wisdom

…the Wisdom of God is Christ His Only-begotten Son: and he by his doctrine degraded the Wisdom of God into a female element… St. Cyril of Jerusalem I think you’ll agree with me that there have been many of these “he’s”, especially in these modern times, i.e., the last 100-150 years.

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The presence of Christ

Only by severely downgrading or eliminating altogether the importance of initiation into the life of the Church can one speak of Orthodox witness to the heterodox in the framework of ecumenical encounter. Ultimately, this translates into denying the existential reality of the Church itself (the life in Christ), and hence, by extension, the very diachronic [...]

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