“Even during prayer, man is for the greater part not the son of freedom, but the slave of necessity and duty. Look at any man you like,… Read more “Why You Feel Your Prayers Are Not Heard”
Month: June 2014
If It Happened, It Happened! (Gotta Let It Go!)
I’ve decided to make a moral, spiritual, mental, social, and emotional commitment to no longer dwell on what is in the past whether it be my failures,… Read more “If It Happened, It Happened! (Gotta Let It Go!)”
What Is the Shape of the Soul?
Originally posted on A Wider Sunrise:
When I was little, I mistakenly thought that a picture of a smoker’s lungs from my first grade textbook was showing…
On Prayer
PRAYER How should we pray? Over the years, as strange as it may seem, we’ve had a number of people ask us if we’d pray they win… Read more “On Prayer”
Dumitru Staniloae: Does God Remember the Damned?
Originally posted on Eclectic Orthodoxy:
In the midst of his exposition of of Christ’s individual judgment upon the soul, Fr Dumitru Staniloae observes that “while the Holy…