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Destroying death by death

9 May 2016 By Andrew

In Orthodoxy, we often hear talk about the mortification of the passions. What do we mean by this? Perhaps the Paschal season helps us to understand.

Christ destroyed death not by killing, but by voluntarily accepting his own death. Through his voluntary death, he destroyed death, and that destruction of death by death gave abundant life — life to those in the tombs!

So we don’t fight against the passions directly, we mortify them by our death… [ read more ]

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Transforming desires 2: Overcoming Addiction

5 May 2016 By Andrew

What does venerating the cross teach us about how to deal with our addictions and habitual sins?

From the beginning of this series, I’ve been talking about how seeing iconographically — seeing with the eye of the heart, the nous — changes everything. Last time, I talked about the way in which repentance is the context in which the eye of the heart can be opened enabling us to see truly — to begin to perceive… [ read more ]

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The passions turn our thirst for the infinite on to something which cannot satisfy it — Dimitru Staniloae Share on X
Another characteristic of the passions is that in the man unquenchable thirst is manifested, which seeks to be quenched and can’t be. Blondel says that they… [ Read more ]
–Dimitru Staniloae

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