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December 2017

December 01, 2017
In the writings of Taoist philosopher Chuang Tzu, we find an interesting conversation. A tutor...

November 2017

November 28, 2017
Throughout Scripture, devastation done to the earth is connected with and seen as a reflection...
November 27, 2017
While we should not limit femininity so that we only think of child birth as...
November 24, 2017
St. Catherine’s Monastery, which resides next to the mountain believed to be Mt. Sinai, serves...
November 22, 2017
Abba Anthony predicted that this Abba Ammonas would make progress in the fear of God....
November 20, 2017
The world is full of abuse. It should not be a surprise, then, that those...
November 16, 2017
St. Gregory the Wonderworker, whose feast is November 17, was, as his name suggests, known...
November 14, 2017
In the Philippines, President Duterte has engaged a brutal war against drugs, violating human rights...
November 13, 2017
Jesus was and is king, king of all creation, though as he himself indicated, his...
November 10, 2017
Iconoclasm was the last great heresy of the  first millennium. While it is clear Christians...
November 08, 2017
St. Salvian the Presbyter lived during the collapse of the Roman Empire, and in his...
November 07, 2017
Jesus warned us that we should not go to him seeking signs because it is...
November 06, 2017
One day Abba Macarius the Great came to Abba Anthony’s dwelling on the mountain. When...
November 02, 2017
Recently, Pope Francis reiterated what Saint John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI understood: the...
November 01, 2017
Some people want to reduce Catholicism into a monotonous, monotone belief system which has everyone...

October 2017

October 31, 2017
The king needed help, he needed guidance, he needed the knowledge and wisdom of the...
October 30, 2017
One of the most perplexing, and yet most humanistic, narratives in Scripture is the Book...
October 27, 2017
One of the great difficulties of Christology is showing how Jesus Christ is said to...
October 25, 2017
On Tuesday, Mike Pence gave the deciding vote in the Senate to repeal consumer protection...
October 25, 2017
Abba Amoun of Nitria came to see Abba Anthony and said to him, ‘Since my...
October 23, 2017
Indeed, the church reproves every form of persecution against whomever it may be directed. Remembering...
October 19, 2017
Judeo-Christian values are found in the two-fold law of love: to love God and to...
October 18, 2017
Death is ever before us. Behold the man, behold the woman– behold the skull, behold...
October 16, 2017
God transcends all images which we use to represent him, but, on the other hand,...
October 12, 2017
In his famous essay, “Supernatural Horror in Literature,” H.P. Lovecraft began his study of weird...
October 10, 2017
One of the sages of that time came to Anthony the just and said: Father,...
October 09, 2017
In the theological debates between St. Athanasius and the Arians, one of the central questions...
October 05, 2017
“My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end,...
October 04, 2017
Upon reading Holy Scripture, many, seeing that God is often referenced with masculine pronouns as...
October 02, 2017
This is fundamental to all proper theology: God remains the unknown God who reveals himself...
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