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• Sunday of the Last Judgement: Reflections on the Fear of God
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• The Life and Passion of St Cyprian
• The 'False Decretals'
• Gregory Palamas, On the Dormition
• New texts by St Cyril of Alexandria
• Two texts by St Constantine the Great
• 'A time to feast and a time to fast' - Lenten reflection for 2007

Archive for November, 2008

He Ain’t Experientially Heavy, He’s My Passenger!

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

Passenger,
1) Orthodoxy is an association of spiritual hospitals which exists to cure the heart of man.  (Nothing difficult or challenging there.)
2) Non-Orthodox “Christians” have no idea what the heart/nous is much less how to cure it (this point is easy to prove and should cause no controversy whatsoever). 
You do need a reasoning brain to verify [...]

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