Charismatic Humility

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“The present life is a wrestling school, a gymnasium, a battle, a smelting furnace, and a dyer’s house of virtue” – St John Chrysostom

Wednesday November 4th, 2015

Holy Hieromartyr Nicander

Dear Ones,

Blessings!

Charismatic Humility

“The state of pure prayer bestows upon man an indescribable humility because he has known the Lord face to Face. Elder Sophrony refers to this charismatic humility as the third characteristic of personhood. After seeing the Lord face to Face man no longer compares himself with mortals around him but with his prototype Christ, and he cries out for shame that he is not equal to the true humanity he sees in Christ, the perfect man whom God desired before the ages to create on earth.”

Father Zacharias (Zacharou), MAN, THE TARGET OF GOD 

New Pew Research Poll about Belief in God in America

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/04/americans-faith-in-god-may-be-eroding/

This Pew Research data shows that of all Christian traditions in America the Orthodox Christians are least likely to believe in God’s existence with certainty.

What a horrible statistic.

Voters in Houston voted to repeal the so-called “Houston Equal Rights Ordinance” that the city’s lesbian mayor strongly supported.  

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/04/us-usa-election-houston-idUSKCN0ST0E620151104
 
This is a significant victory against Mayor Parker who attempted to subpoena the personal emails, text messages, etc. of five notable pastors in Houston. She seriously violated religious freedoms, and now she has heard from her constitutency in a very clear way. Thank God.



  

Unfortunately, President Obama and the US Dept of Justice is Behind this Transgender Bathroom Insanity



The U.S. Department of Education concluded that transgender students have a right to full access to the bathroom and locker room of their gender-preference, and anything short of that (e.g., prohibiting the transgender student from showering or changing in front of others) is discriminatory. The suburban Chicago high school district at the center of this determination allowed transgender students to use the locker room of their gender-preference, but only if they showered and changed privately; that was determined by public education’s federal handlers as discriminatory because it subjected the students to stigma and different treatment. If the school district doesn’t change its policy on the matter, they’ll lose their federal funding. 

A Very Nice Profile Piece on our Parishioner, Miss Emily Wilkinson, West Coast Director, Students for Life


http://www.refinery29.com/2015/10/96229/pro-life-millennial-activist#.yndri3:QNv1


Services

Wednesday 6pm Paraklesis, 7pm Dinner and Open All-Parish Fire on Father
Saturday 530pm Great Vespers

Forgive me.

Father Josiah