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    Theology Club: The Priesthood of Christ

    1Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a Royal Priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; That ye should shew forth the praises of Him Who hath called you out of darkness into His marvellous Light: Does this apply to modern Christianity? What do priests, the members of the...
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    The Dormition of Our Supremely Pure Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary 3

    If recompense is bestowed according to the measure of love for God, and if the man who loves the Son is loved of Him and of His Father and becomes the dwelling place of Both, and They mystically abide and walk in him, as it is recorded in the Master's Gospel, who, then, will love Him more than...
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    The Dormition of Our Supremely Pure Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary 2

    But now the Mother of God has her dwelling in Heaven whither she was today translated, for this is meet, Heaven being a suitable place for her. She "stands at the right of the King of all clothed in a vesture wrought with gold and arrayed with divers colors" (cf. Ps. 44:9), as the psalmic...
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    The Dormition of Our Supremely Pure Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary 1

    A Homily on the Dormition of Our Supremely Pure Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary by St. Gregory Palamas Both love and duty today fashion my homily for your charity. It is not only that I wish, because of my love for you, and because I am obliged by the sacred canons, to bring to your...
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    Blogging Musings...

    I have never blogged before... Normally, I simply talk with God... Blogging seems somewhat akin, because it is done alone, almost like a diary, but public... But I am unsure if I will return, unless perhaps there is something I might want to say here that I would not wish to post on a...
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    Theology Club: Why did John write his Gospel?

    Matthew, Mark and Lude were written around the same time, after the Pauline Epistles, then a 40 plus year wait, and then the Gospel of John and Revelation... So why would John write his Gospel after all that time, and toward the end of his life? Does it have a fundamentally different purpose...
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    BLACK FRIDAY AT THE SUPREME COURT

    This is a homily given last Sunday by Fr. Josiah Trenham at his Church in Riverside, CA and published here on Ancient Faith Radio... He and his clergy stripped themselves of vestments and served the Sunday Liturgy in BLACK in mourning for our country... This is a great homily...
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    ECT ACTS 10 EXEGETICAL

    Line by line, term by term, to see what the text actually says, so that the meaning of the text can be differentiated from the various interpretations of its words... I will work from the Greek text, providing a basic grammatical word for word translation, and place it into a more workable...
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    ECT SALVATION: OLD TESTAMENT VS NEW

    What is the difference between Salvation in the Old Testament and that found in the New Testament? Christ said that the least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than the greatest of the Old Testament Prophets, John the Baptist... What was Salvation in the OT? What IS Salvation in Christ? Are...
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