Didymus the Blind – A useful blindness!
Abstract Didymus the Blind is unusual and perhaps unique as an ancient Christian exegete and teacher who reflects on blindness…
Homily for the First Sunday of Lent
Matthew 6:19-30 The passage we have just heard from the Gospel of St Matthew is full of opposites and full…
St Severus of Antioch and his Homilies
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. I would like to…
Why continue to study?
Father Peter Farrington When a person becomes a priest, or even a senior servant in the Church, surely this proves…
Being a Family in Christ
How we view people depends on our relationship with them. If we don’t know someone they become ‘that person with…
What about usury?
In the Old Testament we find that there are prohibitions on lending with interest, and there is a clear and…
Praying to the Holy Trinity
The revealed dogma of the Holy Trinity is the foundation of our Christian life. This is not a teaching that…
Do not use vain repetitions
When our Lord Jesus was about to teach his disciples how to pray in the words that begin, Our Father……
What about Reincarnation?
There is something attractive about the idea of reincarnation. It seems to suggest that if you make a mistake in…
Why consider Orthodoxy?
There are over seven billion people crowded more or less closely together on this world. About two billion consider themselves…