Apr 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
Image by Andrew Martin (Pixabay) The Spectrum of Suffering, the Medicine of Mercy By Josh J. Valley This article is written in honour of martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the 77th year since his execution at the direct order of Adolph Hitler at Flossenbürg concentration...
Apr 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
A TALE OF TWO LOST SONS Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 All the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to Jesus. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.” So Jesus told them this parable: “There...
Mar 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO (Russian Poet 1933 – 1997) In 1941 my mother took me back to Moscow. There I saw my enemies for the first time. If my memory is right, nearly twenty thousand German war prisoners were to be marched in a single column through...
Mar 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
Last year Ron Dart suggested that the Contemplative Order of the Sons of the Holy Cross should read and reflect on T.S. Eliot's Ash Wednesday during Lent. I did as was suggested and found the poem was insightful in a manner that I could not grasp immediately (on...
Feb 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
Is there a literal hell where the depraved are punished after they die? If so, what is it like? Is there a literal heaven where the righteous go after death? If so, what is it like? These are rhetorical questions that have been debated by sincere people who desire to...
Feb 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
Address by His All-HolinessEcumenical Patriarch Bartholomewafter the Divine Liturgyon the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee (February 13, 2022) Call for Peace in Ukraine * * * Honorable Consuls General, Beloved children in the Lord, On this Sunday,...
