by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon According to the Bible, the true founder of the shrine at Bethel was Jacob. Genesis describes the prompting occasion: "Now Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran. So he prayed in a place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took … [Read more...]
Jesus and Joseph: Their Shared Concern
by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon Each year the Church's Lenten reading of Genesis reaches its climax, just on the verge of Holy Week, with the story of Joseph's reconciliation with his brothers. The liturgical chants relevant to that story suggest why: the story of Joseph is taken as a prefiguring … [Read more...]
On The Essence And Energies Of God
by Vladimir Lossky The theology of the Eastern Church distinguishes in God the three hypostases, the nature or essence, and the energies. The Son and the Holy Spirit are, so to say, personal processions, the energies natural processions. The energies are inseparable from the nature, and the nature … [Read more...]
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