Theology without practice is the theology of demons. Dear ones in Christ,. I am now discontinuing this blog. However, I will continue to post on our parish blog, which can be found here. The Art or Repentance and Salvation. Heard the prayer of St.

I was made to be wide-eyed all the days of my life. Friday, May 15, 2015. A Meeting by Wendell Berry. In a dream I meet. I know, gone long and far,. And yet he is the same. For the dead are changeless. It is I who have changed,. Grown strange to what I was. Yet I, the changed one,. 8220;I been eating peaches. Off some mighty fine trees. Saturday, March 14, 2015. Not health, but healing,.

Quality Books in Orthodox Theology Since 2005. Man the Target of God by Archimandrite Zacharias. The Orthodox Understanding of Salvation. Set of MTP Books by Archimandrite Zacharias.

Life of St Mary the Egyptian. Forefeast of the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple.

The creation of a contemporary American Orthodox temple. Modeled after that in the Chora, was the first to be completed in preparation for the consecration of the altar area. The Pantokrator is at center, with hierarchs at either side. There is significant stencilling and gilding throughout, a theme echoed in subsequent murals. And much discussion between artist and priest ensued. The Theophany temple, styled after the Chora.

The last weekend of September we went to the Lake of the Ozarks with my brother, Dwain, his wife, Jennifer, and their son, TJ. We had a blast! On our last day, Koichi and I went to Bridal Cave and took a cave tour.