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Following Christ

Post author:sfdumitru
Post published:January 31, 2023
Post category:Icon from Within (Jan./Feb. ’23)

The Sunday of Adam's Expulsion from Heaven is an opportunity of repentance. After the fall, as Saint Maximus the Confessor says, people fell ill from ignorance of the cause of…

“He sought to see Him…”

Post author:sfdumitru
Post published:January 31, 2023
Post category:Icon from Within (Jan./Feb. ’23)

On the 32nd Sunday after Pentecost, we heard the Gospel reading about Zacchaeus. The Lord was passing through Jericho not long before His Passion. It was known that the Lord…

Fire, fire

Post author:sfdumitru
Post published:January 31, 2023
Post category:Icon from Within (Jan./Feb. ’23)

…Fire, fire! The branches crackle and the night wind of late autumn blows the flame of the bonfire back and forth. The compound is dark; I am alone at the…