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euangelion: The Reign of Christ the King
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Reflections on the Gospel (euangelion) of our Lord Jesus Christ from Holy Trinity Ecumenical Orthodox Church. Saturday, November 19, 2011. The Reign of Christ the King. A Sermon at Apostles' Anglican Church. Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth:. Set up your kingdom in our midst. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God:. Have mercy on us sinners. Holy Spirit, breath of the living God:. Renew us and all the world. Amen. N T Wright, Trinity Prayer. For we have seen His star in the East and have come...
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euangelion: June 2011
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Reflections on the Gospel (euangelion) of our Lord Jesus Christ from Holy Trinity Ecumenical Orthodox Church. Tuesday, June 14, 2011. The Affront of Baptism. Certainly, then, baptism must render a day holy. Any day my brother chooses for the baptism will become a holy day – St. Madeleine’s day – and saints in heaven and saints on earth will rejoice, and the calendar of eternity will mark the feast. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Partners In Health: Donations for Haiti. Compassion International: Haiti Relief.
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euangelion: May 2011
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Reflections on the Gospel (euangelion) of our Lord Jesus Christ from Holy Trinity Ecumenical Orthodox Church. Monday, May 30, 2011. Some questions contain hidden assumptions or fallacies that render them nonsense, impossible to answer meaningfully. What color is yesterday? Makes a category mistake; so too. When is a square? What meaning would any answer offer? Why do bad things happen to good people? First, there is the notion of “good people.” This is a Romantic idea and perhaps an Enlig...8216;The veno...
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euangelion: December 2010
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Reflections on the Gospel (euangelion) of our Lord Jesus Christ from Holy Trinity Ecumenical Orthodox Church. Friday, December 24, 2010. Eve of the Nativity: 24 December 2010. Christ is born: extol him! Christ from heaven: go to meet him! Christ on earth: be ye lifted up! Sing unto the Lord, all the whole earth, and praise him in song with joy, O ye people: For he hath glorified himself. Glory to thee, O our God; glory to thee. A beautiful Serbian Christmas song. Prayers and hymns taken from the. These t...
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euangelion: November 2010
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Reflections on the Gospel (euangelion) of our Lord Jesus Christ from Holy Trinity Ecumenical Orthodox Church. Sunday, November 28, 2010. We all must choose or others will be happy to choose for us. Advent relocates us in the midst of the story, far from Alpha, at an unknown remove from Omega and calls out – watch. St. Benedict began the prologue to his rule with the imperative. The Anglican collect for this first Sunday of Advent says it well:. John Henry Newman,. Parochial and Plain Sermons. It is truly...
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euangelion: October 2010
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Reflections on the Gospel (euangelion) of our Lord Jesus Christ from Holy Trinity Ecumenical Orthodox Church. Tuesday, October 26, 2010. Idolatry is inevitable in an opaque world; true worship requires transparency. And then, there is the matter of ourselves: opaque or transparent? Tuesday, October 12, 2010. Hot August night and when you’d almost bet. You can hear yourself sweat he walks in. Eyes black as coal and when he lifts his face. Every ear in the place is on him. I like grits: butter, salt, peppe...
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euangelion: March 2011
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Reflections on the Gospel (euangelion) of our Lord Jesus Christ from Holy Trinity Ecumenical Orthodox Church. Saturday, March 19, 2011. Sermon, 2 Lent 2011: This Vexing Little "Dud" of a Story. This Vexing Little “Dud” of a Story. In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Then they arrive, the scribes and Pharisees; they arrive from Jerusalem with a burning question of crucial importance: “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? Jesus minces no words in his respo...
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euangelion: November 2011
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Reflections on the Gospel (euangelion) of our Lord Jesus Christ from Holy Trinity Ecumenical Orthodox Church. Saturday, November 19, 2011. The Reign of Christ the King. A Sermon at Apostles' Anglican Church. Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth:. Set up your kingdom in our midst. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God:. Have mercy on us sinners. Holy Spirit, breath of the living God:. Renew us and all the world. Amen. N T Wright, Trinity Prayer. For we have seen His star in the East and have come...
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euangelion: No Bad Things
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Reflections on the Gospel (euangelion) of our Lord Jesus Christ from Holy Trinity Ecumenical Orthodox Church. Monday, May 30, 2011. Some questions contain hidden assumptions or fallacies that render them nonsense, impossible to answer meaningfully. What color is yesterday? Makes a category mistake; so too. When is a square? What meaning would any answer offer? Why do bad things happen to good people? First, there is the notion of “good people.” This is a Romantic idea and perhaps an Enlig...8216;The veno...
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euangelion: A Kingdom Response
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Reflections on the Gospel (euangelion) of our Lord Jesus Christ from Holy Trinity Ecumenical Orthodox Church. Tuesday, May 3, 2011. We cannot ignore these things and survive. And therein lies the tension. We are simultaneously citizens of the United States and of the Kingdom of God, with conflicting values and demands imposed upon us. I am no better at reconciling these conflicts than anyone else. How do we start? And – Dare I say this? Forth, we must continually re-evaluate our priorities and our loyalt...