Sunday Epistles and Gospels | Hearing, Doing and Intending
Brethren, but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. For God shows no partiality. All who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the
Fruit of the Spirit | Love—It Begins Here
One of them, a lawyer, asked Jesus a question, to test Him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” And He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the
Fruit of the Spirit | There is Only One Way to Bear Fruit
Jesus said, “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, He takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit He prunes, that is may be more fruit. You are already made clean by the word which I have
THE FRAGRANCE OF CHRIST | THE BIRD OF THE DESERT | THE HOLY FORERUNNER
The following in an excerpt from “Eros of Orthodoxy,” translated by Fr. Nicholas Palis and written by Mr. Pantelis Paschou. In one of his troparia in the 6th ode, the inspired hymnographer who wrote the canons for the Synaxis of Saint John the Forerunner, offers a timely characterization of him:
Weekly myOCN Pew Pals
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Fruit of the Spirit | Why Do We Want It Both Ways?
But to all who received Him, who believed in His name, He gave power to become children of God; who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1: 12-13 I’m going to introduce two