Communal Worship
There are two kinds of worship: Individual and Communal (a) In prayer, for example, there is individual prayer; you pray in your room to your Fr. who sees in secret. This does not cancel the existence of communal prayer for all the groups of believers to pray in one spirit, in one soul and in one voice. Examples of such prayers are numerous in the New Testament. One of these examples is the prayer of – …
The Gift of Giving
With only two weeks before Christmas, there was one lady in the hospital recovering from an illness. She had a large, loving family who visited her regularly and attended to her needs. When she came back from surgery, she awoke to a room full of several cards and bouquets of flowers. She also realized that she had another patient staying with her. This lady was going to have surgery the next day on her foot. – …
Let Us Take Care of Each Other
The great cannot exist without the small, nor the small without the great. There is a certain mixing together in all things, and usefulness in such. Let us take our body. The head without the feet is not anything, neither are the feet without the head. For the most insignificant parts of our body are necessary and useful to the whole of the body. But all work together and employ a single state of submission – …