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I've been reading The Ascetic of Love about Mother Gavrilia and enjoying it very much. I was wondering if y'all had any thoughts or quotes or links or things about what Mother Gavrilia (G.G. in the quote) is talking about in this passage here. It was in the section of the book called "Mother...

After reading it again myself, I think I have to agree with you. God gave His law to Israel. They interpreted it. Jesus interpreted and lived it rightly, which was sometimes in conflict with their interpretation. So, while it may have seemed to them like he was breaking The Word of God, He...

Thanks , Proto :) No rush. I'm just getting back to you now 'cause I've been busy wrangling my 2 kiddos, a feat which still utterly intimidates me. :tutu: I agree. Maybe the blog post was using the word "law" in a different way? I don't know. I know there are some rather over...

:) Yes, he does. Yes, Christ came to fulfill the law and He is sinless. And yes, building one's idea love of neighbor off a false notion of God builds a false sort of love. But if y'all don't mind there seems to still be something here I need to ferret out. (Please forgive me if I speak...

I agree with some of what she says. I may be wrong on all this but I see something at the core of this that I believe is true. And I think it's important to affirm that. But I also think she may be jumping a bit too fast and too far with some of her conclusions. I do tend to believe that...

I don't know if these quite fit or not but it brings to mind for me a few of the intercessions included in the morning prayers in the old Jordanville prayerbook "Save, O Lord, and have mercy on those whom I have offended or scandalized by my madness or inadvertence, and whom I have turned...

Thanks, Josh. That was interesting and well put. If I may think out loud as well . . . This reminds me some of the stuff that goes on with me and my atheist husband. Sometimes I really get to seriously doubting if God exists or not. I can relate to the girl in your example who doesn't see...

Mariya, I believe each one of us here would feel honored if we could stand beside you at the grave of your heroic great aunt and join you in your prayer. :crosseo: I know I would. :hug: I don't have any Jewish ancestry that I know of but I do have some Jewish in-laws who are very dear to me...

I agree. We should trust ourselves to some extent. God does. He loves us and gives us free will, that seems quite the act of faith on His part towards us, to me. Yes, the Orthodox do stress that there is much that we do not or just cannot know, that we should not lean on our own...

I try to sing soprano with the choir. Sometimes we do some of the readings too. I was trying to learn how to sing alto. My range is more soprano, but I seem to be able to get most of the alto part. I was trying to learn because we have a small choir and it would be nice if we could have...

Lord, have mercy.

Some sayings of Amma Sarah, a Desert Mother. (More can be found here MYSTAGOGY: The Sayings of Amma Sarah of Scete) * It was related of Amma Sarah that for thirteen years she waged warfare against the demon of fornication. She never prayed that the warfare should cease but she said, ‘O God...

Thank you.

Thank you all for your prayers and encouragement. :hug:

Thank you.

I'll see how he's doing this weekend and maybe bring up working out something. Thank you :hug: I'll try.

It's Julianna. Thank you :hug: Thanks, yeah. I've spoken to him in the past, and it has helped. His brother just died this past week or so. I know he has a lot on his plate right now. I figured that it might not hurt to try other things too. This is hard. In fact harder than it has...

Let me start by asking your forgiveness for what I know will be a ramblesome post. Please forgive me. I've been feeling rather lost and confused for some degree or another for some time now and I'm not sure what to do. Sometimes I feel that I shouldn't post about it here because I should be...

Just heard of this at church today. "We ask all who read these words to keep the parish family of St. Andrew, Los Angeles, CA in their prayers during these difficult days. In the early morning hours of 15 August, an intruder broke into the parish Church and desecrated the Holy Altar...

I've been reading it. Some of it seems quite beautiful to me. Some of it I know I don't understand. Some of it seems to be from a different perspective. Like some of the stuff about sin seems to be coming more from like what I understand the Catholic understanding of original sin to be than...