by St. Justin PopovichToday is a little Great Friday, a second Great Friday. For today the greatest man among those born of women, John, the Holy Forerunner and Baptiser of the Lord, is murdered. On Great Friday, people murdered God, crucified God. On today’s holy great feast, people murdered the … [Read more...]
On Divine Providence: The Incomprehensibility of God’s Judgments
by St. John of TobolskThroughout the course of our entire life we must often repeat King David’s utterance: “Thy righteousness is like the great mountains, O Lord; Thy judgments are a great deep” (Psalm 36:6). This depth is illustrated in the Bible in the example of the two high-ranking servants of … [Read more...]
On Divine Providence: God allows Misfortunes and Sins for the Good of Man
by St. John of TobolskSince neither the devil, nor any person can do evil to another without God’s allowance of it, let us examine the following: what God allows, how He allows it, and for what reason does this allowance come about?We must differentiate between two kinds of allowed evils. The first … [Read more...]
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