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Category Archive for 'Ontology'

In all things thanksgiving

Posted in Ontology on 5 September 2008 - 6 אלול 5768

F I’m ever asked why I want to be a priest, I hope I can be this eloquent. (Props to Fr T)

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Sermon’s Discernment (Pt 3)

Posted in Ontology, church geekery, orthoparadoxy on 9 June 2008 - 7 סיון 5768

In part three, we wonder what priest is at all if priest is not the lone eucharistic wonder-working member of the congregation, or (in the Orthodox understanding) the only channel in the congregation through which God might work eucharistic wonders.

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Sermon’s Discernment (Pt 2)

Posted in Ontology, church geekery, orthoparadoxy on 8 June 2008 - 6 סיון 5768

What is ordination?
Is it a setting apart of a person for a job - saying the community gives them the authority to do the work God has gifted them to do?
Or is it the granting of the power to do a job - a job that couldn’t get down otherwise?
In Cam’s sermon from [...]

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Sermon’s Discernment (Pt 1)

Posted in Ontology, church geekery, orthoparadoxy on 8 June 2008 - 6 סיון 5768

I’ve been wrestling for the last 2 summers with a shadow that won’t let go of me. It plagued me when I was Orthodox - only going away for a year or so - and continues to hound me. This issue, this shadow, is a sense that I’m called to priesthood. At times [...]

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