A brother asked Abba Sisoes, “Did Satan pursue them like this in the early days?” The old man said to him, “He does this more at the present time, because his time is nearly finished and he is enraged.”
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O Only Son of God, receive me into Your wisdom. You are the head of all the sons of men. You are their heavenly comprehension, illumination and jubilation. You are the One who thinks the same goodness in all men: the same thought and the same light. A man recognizes another man through You. A man [...] Tomorrow evening (12 August) at 6 p.m. we will again offer the Small Paraclesis as a Readers’ Service. On Friday (14 August) at 6 p.m. we will offer Readers’ Great Vespers for the Dormition of the Theotokos. This Saturday’s 9:30 Divine Liturgy will be the Festal Divine Liturgy for the Dormition of the Theotokos. Our catechism class is [...] The Homily on the Transfiguration posted a few minutes before this had been included by Fr. Daniel Griffith in the August 2007 edition of The Cloud of Witnesses. To post it here, I copied and pasted the text from the MSWord file of The Cloud, removed line breaks from the title, cut and pasted [...] For an explanation of the present Feast & understanding of its truth, it is necessary for us to turn to the very start of today’s reading from the Gospel: “Now after 6 days Jesus took Peter, James & John, his brother, & led them up onto a high mountain by themselves” (Mt 17:1). Welcome to the orthodoxkansas.org blog. The administrators hope that the blog will be used for spiritually edifying posts (original or from patristic sources) and for parish announcements. Comment threads are moderated, but discussions our posts are welcomed. Users may register as contributors: your posts must be approved by the administrators before they appear. [...] |
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