In preparation for Great Lent

Today is celebrated the memory of St. Theodora who after the death of her iconoclast husband restored the veneration of icons in 842. Of course this is where the feast we celebrate in two weeks, the Sunday of Orthodoxy, originates. Today’s commemorations also “happen” to coincide with the Sunday of the last judgment reminding us [...]

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The ludicrous ways of saints

…the all-wise Symeon’s whole goal was this: first, to save souls, whether through afflictions which he sent them in ludicrous or methodical ways, or through miracles which he performed while seeming not to understand, or through maxims which he said to them while playing the fool; and second, that his virtue not be known, and [...]

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In the power of Christ

…I am going to mock the world. St. Symeon of Emesa

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