Jan 31, 2024
Bible
Study – Job
Class Two: Job 1: 6-12
From the Orthodox Study Bible.
Satan is Permitted to Test Job
6. Then as it so happened one day that behold, the angels of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and the devil also came with them.
7. The Lord said to the devil, “Where did you come from?” So...
Jan 28, 2024
Homily –
Bringing Grace to a Messy
World
St Luke
18:35-43. The healing
of the blind beggar.
Three points:
Jesus did not stay in one place.
Jesus Christ is and was God. It is fitting that He reside in the throne room of God, surrounded by the cherubim and seraphim, with His holiness reflecting off all the angels and...
Jan 24, 2024
Bible
Study – Job
Class Two: Job 1: 1-5
From the Orthodox Study Bible.
1. Faithful Job and His Children
1 There was a man in the land of Austis, whose name was Job. That man was true, blameless, righteous, and God-fearing, and he abstained from every evil thing.
2 Now he had seven sons and three daughters,
3...
Jan 22, 2024
On
Gratitude (with thanks to St. Nicholai Velimirovich)
Luke 17: 12-19 (The Ten Lepers, only one of whom
returned)
[Started with a meditation on the virtues of hard work and gratitude; hard work so that we can be proud of what we have done and foster an appreciation for the amount of effort that goes into the making...
Jan 18, 2024
Bible
Study – Job
Introduction
Job is the first book of the Wisdom genre in the Orthodox Bible. The others are The Proverbs of Solomon, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, the Wisdom of Solomon, and the Wisdom of Sirach.
Date and Authorship: Unknown, but Job lived during the time of the Patriarchs (about 1600 BC).
From...