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You Don’t See Me

May 15, 2022 By Fr. Stephen Muse

After 38 years of invisibility in a well-travelled area of Jerusalem where people passed daily, Jesus noticed one particular man among the many “invalid, blind, lame and paralyzed” huddled in the five porticoes around the Sheep Gate. The action throughout the Gospel of John unfolds in the context of six Jewish feasts in Jerusalem, beginning with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Healing of Paralytic, Law and Mercy, Living Water, Phariseeism

Who, me?

February 13, 2022 By Fr. Stephen Muse

According to the Apostle Luke, Jesus told the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican “to some who trusted firmly[1] in themselves that they were righteous and despised others.” [Lk 18:9] The contrast between the two offers some valuable lessons. The Pharisee’s starring role in the parable depends on Being on display in the theatre of his own … [Read more...]

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Send That Annoying Foreigner Away!

February 6, 2022 By Fr. Stephen Muse

Early in his ministry, Jesus sent the Apostles out two-by-two with instructions to “Go nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town of the Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep of the House of Israel.” They were instructed to preach repentance saying “The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand; heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, and cast … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: cross, ideology; nationalism, judgment, meekness, Syro-Phoenician woman; prayer of the heart

What Do You Want Me To Do For You?

January 23, 2022 By Fr. Stephen Muse

"What do you want me to do for you?" is a simple question we often hear get asked by whoever we consult for the services or assistance they can offer. Then there's the magical version of the question which gets asked in the delightful stories we all know where the person who gets three wishes ends up having to use the last one to get rid of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Bartimaeus, blindness and seeing, creation, fully human, redemption, repentance, salvation

The Value of a Single Leaf and the Oneness of All

January 2, 2022 By Fr. Stephen Muse

Approaching the Theophany of the Lord, we are again before the intersection of time and eternity. In the Apolytikion for Epiphany we sing “At your baptism in the Jordan O Lord, the Worship of the Trinity was made manifest…” There is a story from II Kings, chapter 6 in which the prophet Elisha invites some people to go to the Jordan river and build … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: baptism, ecology, Elisha, Mircea Eliade, Native American, prayer, St Sophrony, Theophany, vainglory

OCN Created Icon: Why am I a Christian

February 16, 2021 By Fr. Stephen Muse

Part 2 is a dialogue with Fr. Dn Stephen Muse on the Image of God in Man and how as we encounter one another in and through the Logos, Christ is the guest who becomes our host in an eternal dialogue of love. Available from https://www.etsy.com/listing/768128296/the-dia-logos-prayer-art-print-free … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: becoming-in-Communion, Communion, Consubstantiality, dia-Logos prayer, Encountering the Other, Eucharist, Levinas, post modernity

Introducing Antiphon Journal

November 21, 2020 By Fr. Stephen Muse

Antifon is an on-line journal published in Greece which presents very high quality literary, theological, philosophical, cultural essays, aesthetics, and poetry. It regularly features a variety of interviews and discussions relevant to contemporary culture in light of Orthodox understanding. Interviews with Fr. Dn Stephen were recently … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: confession, conversion, Mt Athos, ontology, Orthodoxy and psychology, postmodernity, spiritual fathers

Destroy This Temple…

August 2, 2020 By Fr. Stephen Muse

It has been some five months since we have willingly removed ourselves from worshipping in the temple of Holy Transfiguration Church at the request of our Bishops as part of the precautions taken in response to the COVID pandemic to limit the spread of the virus. I miss the worship life and fellowship we had before all this began. In addition, in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Eucharist, Gamaliel, Hagia Sohia, St. Stephen, worship

Throwing Bricks At Jesus

June 25, 2020 By Fr. Stephen Muse

In 7th grade, my friend Andy and I were looking down from the top of the football stadium seats as the 8th and 9th grade cheerleaders with their pompoms and clean white shirts were passing below. A split second before they disappeared into the stadium, I poured out part of the Coca-Cola in my hand and rushed back to sit down in the bleachers, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Consubstantiality, evil, forgiveness, Nicea, racism, repentance, temptation

The Most Important Question

May 16, 2020 By Fr. Stephen Muse

What is the most important question of human existence?  If we have not yet discovered this, then we can be assured that we are not very far along toward answering the question. My six-year-old grandson Collin suffers from severe asthma. When he heard that asthma was a condition that made people more vulnerable to the COVID virus he was worried. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: dialogical reciprocity, Emmaus, Eucharist, Garden of Gethsemane arrest, love, Mary Magdalene, personal encounter, resurrection

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Behold the faith the Lord gave, the Apostles preached and the Fathers preserved

"I remember events of that time more clearly than those of recent years. I can describe the very place in which the blessed Polycarp sat as he discoursed and the accounts which he gave of his intercourse with [the Apostle] John and others who had seen the Lord. He remembered their words, and what he heard from them concerning the Lord, his miracles and his teaching, having received them from eyewitnesses of the 'Word of life,' Polycarp related all these things in harmony with the Scriptures. These things being told me by the mercy of God, I listened attentively, noting them down, not on paper, but in my heart. And continually, through God's grace, I recall them faithfully." -- St Irenaeus of Lyons, 130-202 AD, in a letter to Florinus

‘Abba-tizer’ = a morsel of spiritual nourishment from an Abba or saint

"Patristic texts reveal the inner spiritual condition of the soul, much as axial tomography (imaging by sections) reveals the inner structures of the body.  Each sentence of the patristic text contains a multitude of meanings, and each person interprets them according to his own spiritual state of being.... In order to understand the writings of the Fathers, one must constrain oneself...focus and live spiritually; for the spirit of the Fathers is perceived through. and by, the Spirit only." --St. Paisios of Mt Athos

dia-Logos Prayer

Lord, love the world through me.
Let me love the world through You
and be loved by You through the world.

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