by Fr. Patrick Henry ReardonIt is instructive to reflect on the apparent implausibility---indeed, the scandal---of the biblical claim to a favored position for a particular people within history. How is it possible that any people could be God's chosen people? The claim represents an affront to both … [Read more...]
Homily on the Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist
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 g … [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 t … [Read more...]
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