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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

Elevation of the Holy Cross

September 11, 2022 By Fr. Stephen Muse

The Gospel reading the Holy Fathers have chosen for the Sunday before the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, which we will celebrate with the Divine Liturgy on Wednesday, is part of the dialogue between Jesus and the Pharisee Nicodemus, a member of the ruling body of the Sanhedrin whom we are told comes to Jesus “by night” as an ally and tells him, “We … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: cross, Law and Spirit, Nicodemus

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

Can Someone Show Me the Light?

July 18, 2022 By Fr. Stephen Muse

Ninety to nothing can happen when you are cruising 35 mph above the speed limit and suddenly notice flashing blue lights in your rear-view mirror gaining on you even faster. Or it can happen when, like Stephanie Clegg, you purchase a Marc Chagall painting from Southeby’s auction for $90K in 1994 only to be told it is worthless in 2022. In 2008, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Ecumenical Councils; Truth and Love, Knowing through Communion, logical positivism, uncreated light

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...]

Filed Under: Blog

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

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"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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