by Dcn George Maximov Another excellent gem from Dcn George, who is becoming a favorite writer of mine. A friend once told me about an article on one religious website on the feast of the Entrance of the Most Pure Theotokos into the Temple. The article essentially stated that there was no … [Read more...]
Day 7 – Temple
The topic for tomorrow – Day 7 – Fri. Nov. 21 of the 2014 30 (40) Days of Blogging Challenge is TEMPLE There are many good Bible verses to help with this. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own. - 1 Cor. 6:19 If … [Read more...]
Cleansing the Court of the Gentiles
by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon At the beginning of Holy Week, just after the celebration of Palm Sunday, the Church turns her attention to Jesus' act of purging of the Temple. As our guiding text here we may take Zechariah 14:20-21, the closing verses of that book: “The vessels in the Lord's house … [Read more...]