Saint – Text & Context

By:Andrew Hicks
February 24, 2023
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The Lenten Prayer of St. Ephrem the Syrian

Introduction This beautiful little prayer and accompanying exercise is an important and classic prayer used in Eastern Orthodox observance of the Lenten season. I first discovered it while reading Great Lent:…

By:Andrew Hicks
September 5, 2021
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Ecclesiological Explorations – Part 3: “The Church is … Holy…” https://txtandcontxt.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/skull-kat-yhEgkxZqkkk-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024 683 Andrew Hicks Andrew Hicks https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ef5ac5236d3c82471d0638de37a90fc9?s=96&d=mm&r=g September 5, 2021 October 7, 2021

Ecclesiological Explorations – Part 3: “The Church is … Holy…”

The Church is holy. This is so in two senses. The first, is that the Church is holy. How can we claim otherwise? Jesus died and gave Himself up in…