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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

The Church is Not Organized Religion But Communion to be Constantly Pursued

August 25, 2019 By Fr. Stephen Muse

How often have I heard variations on the theme of 'I’m spiritual, but not religious? You can be spiritual without going to Church. I don’t like organized religion because the church is full of a bunch of hypocrites.' It sure is. Got that right. There is no one alive on the earth who is not hypocritical. We say one thing while thinking something … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Communion, cross, organized religion, repentance, spiritual but not religious

The Icons Tell Me…

April 20, 2019 By Fr. Stephen Muse

Our five-year-old grandson Collin Thomas, told his mother that his father didn't say prayers with him the previous night after he read a story to him. His mother usually reads to him at bedtime. She asked him how he had noticed this. “Has Yia Yia been praying with you when you spend the night with her?” He said, “No, it wasn't there.” Sometimes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Communion, Holy Week, prayer

Re-member me in love forever Lord!

October 8, 2017 By Fr. Stephen Muse

On an occasion when Jesus was in Capernaum, the city of the Apostle Peter’s family, the leaders of the local synagogue appealed to him on behalf of a certain Roman Centurion, whose servant was ill. They made their case for Jesus to intervene on the basis that the Centurion was worthy because “he loves our nation and built our synagogue.” Nothing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Communion, compassion, vulnerability of love

Transfigured by Love for Love

August 5, 2017 By Fr. Stephen Muse

  St. John the Theologian, beloved to Christ, in his first letter to the Church, pointed straight to the heart of the Gospel that unites heaven and earth when he wrote: We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Communion, diversity, love, transfiguration

Created for a Communion of Love

June 24, 2017 By Fr. Stephen Muse

It is written, “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”[1] What is a “living soul”? Moreover, “What is man that Thou art mindful of him? [2] The ancient Hebrew word translated as “living soul” is nephesh. It is the same word used for all “life” brought … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Art, Communion, Elder Sophrony, human potential, Image and likeness, love, meditation, nephesh, prayer

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