A Syriac Prayer O Thou Divine Comforter and Advocate, Spirit of Truth, Treasure-house of Goodness, and Fountain of Life. Thou who dost apportion gifts and give...
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Jul 5, 2011 12:34 pm
A Little Spiritual Help: FREEDOM IS THE TRANSCENDENT The biggest enemies of freedom are not always external; they are more often internal to the person as well...
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Jul 5, 2011 5:58 pm
Sentence five appears to be missing some words or having too many. It is jumbled in mid-sentence the way I read it. Fr. William ... From: rev john brian...
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Jul 5, 2011 6:08 pm
"until it has be discipline ironed out" in line 5 has a typo, it should read: "until it has the discipline ironed out" Fr John Brian+ _____ From:...
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Jul 5, 2011 10:41 pm
Dear Father: Thank you for correction. I do have one question. I thought comments were insightful but do not think I grasp intended meaning of the following...
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Jul 6, 2011 12:39 am
Well, I cannot speak for the late Metropolitan Paulos Mar Gregorios (eternal memory!), but I will offer a possible explanation. First, his word choice ...
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John Brian
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Jul 12, 2011 7:37 pm
A Little Spiritual Help: GIFT AND ACCOMPLISHMENT I know that the beauty I aim at in the garden lies hidden within the innate potentiality of the earth and the...
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Jul 16, 2011 2:31 pm
There are various degrees of prayer. The first degree is bodily pryaer, consisting for the most part in reading, in standing, and in making prostrations. In...
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Aug 4, 2011 4:49 am
Question: What is a man to do when the demon takes the form of an angel of light and tries to seduce him? Answer: In this case a man needs great power of...
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John Brian
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Aug 11, 2011 3:38 pm
The Divine Image by William Blake To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love All pray in their distress; And to these virtues of delight ...Return their thankfulness. For...
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John Brian
frjohnbrian
Aug 15, 2011 11:46 pm
From Malankara SOC Discussion Forum http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SOCM-FORUM 9 Messages In This Digest 1. A portion of the Sermon about St. Mary's Dormition-...
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John Brian
frjohnbrian
Aug 21, 2011 5:11 am
What is the purpose of prayer? To make a link between prayer and mind, between mind and heart, between the power that thinks and the power that loves. So the...
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Aug 24, 2011 3:02 am
Prayer is a relationship word; it can never be thought of in abstraction, isolated from others or from God. Unfortunately, we have reduced prayer to a private...
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John Brian
frjohnbrian
Sep 11, 2011 1:08 am
From: Sally Mahe There Is No Rush The theology of progress forces us to act before we are ready. We speak before we know what to say. We respond before we feel...
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John Brian
frjohnbrian
Sep 30, 2011 10:19 pm
From: Jim Forest Having read Hannah Arendt's book about the trial in Jerusalem in 1961 of Adolph Eichmann, the chief bureaucrat of the Holocaust, Merton was ...
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rev john brian
frjohnbrian
Oct 4, 2011 12:06 pm
Spiritually Minded Cross Messages "To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." Romans 8:6 Fr John Brian uses the timing of...
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Nov 24, 2011 4:19 pm
Giving thanks helps your psychological outlook BY SETH BORENSTEIN The Associated Press Published: November 22, 2011 06:58PM Updated: November 23, 2011 04:33PM ...
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John Brian
frjohnbrian
Nov 29, 2011 4:32 am
Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh: "our neighbor is the one who needs us" In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. In today's Gospel (St. Luke...
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frjohnbrian
Dec 13, 2011 12:34 pm
From: Jim Forest A tree gives glory to God first of all by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be, it is imitating an idea which is in God and ...
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susan eapen
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Dec 14, 2011 5:47 pm
Thank you. Thank you. I worry so about my own peculiarities of personality Susan Eapen ________________________________ From: jonbrian chorus.net...
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rev john brian
frjohnbrian
Dec 24, 2011 1:46 am
American Christmas From "Living in the Eighth Day" By Rev. Fr. John-Brian Paprock Available at most internet bookstores And at www.lulu.com/transfiguration My...
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John Brian
frjohnbrian
Jan 4, 2012 6:51 pm
Spiritual sobriety One of the characteristics of a genuinely healthy spiritual life is temperance. We know in ordinary speech what sobriety means in comparison...
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John Brian
frjohnbrian
Feb 19, 2012 5:28 am
O Lord, tonight send your angels to touch the hearts of those that have been joined in the sacrament of matrimony but are troubled and in pain; fill them with...
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rev john brian
frjohnbrian
Mar 29, 2012 2:50 am
In The Temple of Broken Hearts By Monk Alexander Let us think about all the good things God gives us in our life, and then they will increase and will oust all...
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frjohnbrian
May 14, 2012 3:03 am
SPIRITUALITY: The certain place of uncertainity 11:58 PM, May. 11, 2012 Written by Norris Burkes A few months ago, I returned to work as a hospital chaplain...
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frjohnbrian
May 24, 2012 3:14 am
Three Movies Explore Women's Spirituality http://spiritfilm.blogspot.com/2012/05/recent-movies-explore-womens.html Thought you might find this review...
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rev john brian
frjohnbrian
Jun 14, 2012 2:54 am
Meaningful Sacrifice: A Course in Christian Spirituality http://maruroopa.blogspot.com/2012/04/meaningful-sacrifice-course-in.html During the fast of the...
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petro_melnyk
Jun 18, 2012 2:13 pm
Thanks for posting. Now that summer is coming and work is slowing down I will have the time to read.!...
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John Brian
frjohnbrian
Jul 4, 2012 12:17 am
My sense is that within the chaos and these tribulations there is a manifestation of God striving to be born, that the cracks revealed in our human systems, in...
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John Brian
frjohnbrian
Jul 7, 2012 8:20 pm
Here it is (Leo Tolstoy, 1886): AN OLD LEGEND CURRENT IN THE VOLGA DISTRICT 'And in praying use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do: for they think that...
