Hieromonk Job (Gumerov)
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What is the Spiritual Meaning of the Feast of the Meeting of the Lord? Why did the meeting of Elder Simeon with the Infant Jesus become a great Christian feast day? Hieromonk Job (Gumerov) talks about today’s feast.
Fr. Ted Bobosh
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We can consider what the Temple is in Judaism and what it means that Jesus Christ both fulfills and supersedes the Temple.
Igumen Gregory (Zaiens)
"Keeping the purity of our all-holy Lady Theotokos in mind let us increase our love for her and also strive for this virtue of purity. Through her prayers combined with our struggles, may Christ our God purify us from the defilement of sin and passions, and so make us worthy in the life to come with faces unashamed to look upon Him, together with His unoriginate Father, and His most-holy, good and life-creating Spirit, throughout the endless ages, world without end. Amen."
Mary Dugan Doss
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The life of Saint Brigid of Ireland offers us new insight into the virtue of hospitality, the cheerful, generous giving of food and shelter. We know that this virtue is praised throughout the Scriptures. The hospitality of Abraham to three young men who visited him was revealed to be offered to none other than the three Persons of the Holy Trinity. In fact, it is in the forms of these three young visitors that the Holy Trinity is most often represented in iconography. Our Lord Jesus Christ commanded us to offer hospitality when He said:
Jesse Dominick
From these fathers we learn that the content of theology, the entirety of the Christian spiritual life, is the Mystery of the Cross, which shapes the ethos of repentance—our prayerful striving to become like Christ in all things—in the Orthodox Church.