Peacemaking As Vocation: Toward an Orthodox Understanding by Fr. Emmanuel Clapsis
Peacemaking As Vocation: Toward an Orthodox Understanding by Fr. Emmanuel Clapsis For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find... Read More
The Church As Neighbor: Corporately and Compassionately Engaged by Fr. John D. Jones
Moved with compassion, the Good Samaritan comes to the place where a Jew, typically despised by Samaritans, has been beaten and left (Lk. 10:33). And he acts: “beholding him,” the Samaritan “came to him and bandaged up his wounds.”
Healing in the Parish and the World: Let Us Go Forth in Peace by Bishop Kallistos Ware
Our theme is the liturgy after the Liturgy. Consider the word “peace” in the Divine Liturgy: In peace let us pray to the Lord, for the peace from above, and for the peace of the whole world; and also the meaning of the celebrant’s greeting, “Peace be with you all.” We know the priest is not just transmitting his own peace, but he is transmitting to the congregation the peace of Christ. And peace, we know, is a gift from God.