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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

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

For the Love of Tuna II

August 3, 2019 By Fr. Stephen Muse

On the Greek island of Kefalonia in the Church of Markopoulo, every year on August 6th, the Feast of the Transfiguration, the “snakes of the Panaghia,” as they are called, make an appearance. They move freely throughout the church especially favoring the icon of the Panaghia, remaining until the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy on the feast of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: cross, love, repentance, snakes of the Panaghia, temptation, thief on the cross

Isha’s Voice is in English!

April 13, 2019 By Fr. Stephen Muse

Isha heard melodies everywhere she went and loved to sing. Her daddy loved to listen. What happens when Isha loses her voice? How will her father be able to bring singing and joy back into their lives? What path will the journey take? Isha's Voice is a story about loss and reunion between a father and daughter and most importantly, how our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: anxiety, Isha's Voice; joy, love

Treasure in Earthen Vessels: Prayer and the Embodied Life

October 2, 2017 By Fr. Stephen Muse

 Treasure in Earthen Vessels “In the following pages, Fr. Stephen Muse provides us, not with a manual of prayer, but with an opening into the life of prayer by unveiling for us “the mystery of embodied life and the uncreated divine life.” He provides an entryway for us, as human beings with all our brokenness, weakness and fear, to dialogue … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: dia-Logos prayer, embodied life, humility, love, noetic prayer, Philokalia, prayer, prayer of the heart, repentance

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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