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Joyful Abandon

April 30, 2023 By Fr. Stephen Muse

The Apostle John relates [Jn 19:30] that on the Cross, Jesus bowed his head and said it is finished.” St John Chrysostom points out that there is a small easily overlooked detail of great significance here. Jesus bows his head before he dies. Normally, one dies first and then the head bows without volition.  St John notes that Jesus offers his life … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: cross, death, humility, myrrh-bearers, resurrection, suffering

God’s Doorknocker

April 24, 2023 By Fr. Stephen Muse

A whisper was heard in heaven, “We need a doorknocker!” What could this mean? It was a mystery hidden from all eternity, unknown even to the Angels, but Isaiah, the youngest of all the Seraphim, began to wonder… The Gospel and Divine Liturgy are presented faithfully in a fresh and imaginative way through the eyes of an angel and the love of a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: angels, Gospel, prayer

Suffering Hell for the Sake of Heaven

March 16, 2023 By Fr. Stephen Muse

  Exploring the paradoxes of suffering and salvation in Orthodox Christian spiritual life.  +++   Suffering Hell for the Sake of Heaven Part 1 Suffering Hell for the Sake of Heaven Part 2 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Adam & Eve, cross, inner fragmentation, involuntary suffering, Jacob & Esau, love, repentance, Trauma, watchfulness

Trauma and Transfiguration Talk and Q&A

October 28, 2022 By Fr. Stephen Muse

To see a video of this talk and Q&A use this link    https://youtu.be/fuQ_4dLkOZA … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: healing trauma, neurobiology, Orthodox psychotherapy, transfiguration

What Must I Do to Feel Alive?

September 4, 2022 By Fr. Stephen Muse

In the search to feel alive and at peace with life and one another, contemporary post-modern digital culture has given rise to some strange contradictions. People are lonelier while having more and more digital “friends” on Facebook. At odds with and dissociated from our physical bodies, there is an increasing preoccupation with constructing a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: communion-in-being, humanism, post modernity, rich young ruler

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

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

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. Stephen were recently published on … [Read more...]

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

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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

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