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Fr. Ted Bobosh is a priest in the Orthodox Church in America. The blogs which are posted here are his meditations and observations as well as offering some materials from others which have influenced his thinking.
Fr. Ted's Blog
7h ago
As Great Lent approaches, we can take a minute to think about its long history in Christianity. Orthodox scholar Eugen Pentiuc writes that Great Lent as a 40-day period of fasting in preparation for the celebration of Pascha emerges in the 4th Century at the time that Christianity was spreading rapidly throughout the Roman Empire ..read more
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1d ago
This is the conclusion to the previous post: God and Science, Beauty and Truth (1). One of the biggest apologetical concerns of the early Patristic Fathers was “to make the biblical revelation acceptable and understandable to the Greeks.” (John Meyendorff, SVTQ Vol 27 No 1 1983, p 27). The Patristic writers wanted to win over ..read more
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2d ago
May God grant me to speak according to His purpose and to think worthily of what I was given, for He is also the guide of wisdom and the corrector of the wise. For both we and our words are in His hand, and so are all insights and knowledge of handicrafts. For He gives ..read more
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3d ago
But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, and I am no longer worthy to ..read more
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4d ago
As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting; for you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation and brings no regret, but worldly grief produces death. For see what earnestness this ..read more
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5d ago
But I say that, for however long a period the heir is an infant, he is no different from a slave, even though he is the lord of everything; rather, he is subject to legal guardians and estate stewards until the term appointed by the father. So also we, when we were infants, were enslaved ..read more
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6d ago
Let sinners be consumed from the earth and let the wicked be no more! Bless the LORD, O my soul! Praise the LORD! (Psalm 104:35) From Jewish tradition comes a story which the desert fathers would have appreciated. A Rabbi is plagued by some local ruffians and he wishes God would mercifully deliver him from ..read more
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1w ago
[This is the concluding post of A Haiku of Peace which began yesterday.] Peace Not the cessation of activity, rather the essence of it. In the Christian tradition we are told to “pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17). This is another way in which peace becomes the essence of our activity. If we are always ..read more
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1w ago
Peace Not the cessation of activity, rather the essence of it. One beauty of a Haiku, or of poetry in general, is that while there is meaning in the words, the words can have many meanings. Those meanings are hidden in the simple words but come out in the understanding of each person who is ..read more
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1w ago
‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!‘ (Luke 18:13) ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ (Luke 15:21) Let all your prayer be completely simple. Both the tax collector and the prodigal son were reconciled to God by one simple phrase – one ..read more