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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. Stephen were recently published on … [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

What Will You Give Me If I Betray Him?

April 17, 2020 By Fr. Stephen Muse

Everybody has their price. Everybody. Some forty years ago Bruce Metzger, my New Testament Seminary professor, quietly made a profound statement in class one day, the kind that finds a permanent resting place in the mind because it sheds light on an unfathomable mystery that remains obscure, yet keeps on tugging at the heart’s hidden longing. “No … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Judas Betrayal, Prayer of Gethsemane, repentance, SIn, temptation, watchfulness

Mt Athos Needs Our Help

April 14, 2020 By Fr. Stephen Muse

This is a letter I recently received from the Friends of Mt Athos regarding recent events that have left the small monastic republic vulnerable in a new way. They need our help and here is a way we can offer it.  Letter From the Membership Chairman of the Friends of Mount Athos in the Americas Dear Friends, I hope you all had a chance to see the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog

Love the Little Things

April 12, 2020 By Fr. Stephen Muse

Fifty years ago, On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard under the direction of President Nixon, killed four unarmed Kent State students on campus. This was emblematic of a decade of disillusionment ignited by the assassination of President Kennedy, civil rights struggles, and the heart-rending murders of Martin Luther King, Jr, and Bobby Kennedy. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog

No Humpty Dumpty Theology

April 10, 2020 By Fr. Stephen Muse

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty famously said in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” [1] In some ways our post-modern, fake news-attributing culture is very familiar with this perspective. It seems natural and even desirable to “create your own reality” and then disparage anyone who objects … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: abandonment, crucifixion, dialogical reciprocity, St Sophrony

My God, My God, Why have we abandoned Thee?

April 4, 2020 By Fr. Stephen Muse

Today I sat in one of my favorite spots in the middle of my walk around Cooper Creek. It's a stone picnic table sheltered under some tall pine trees overlooking the lake. Carolina Tarheel sky blue above with a whisp of clouds over the green earth and the undulating brown waters of the lake. Light infuses everything and as I collect my attention … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: absence of God, atonement, cross, hesychia, prayer, St. Mark the Ascetic, watchfulness; St. Isaac the Syrian; mind-body unity

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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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