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Haiku Digest #2

A Collection of Haiku

No Good Wimmen!

a limerick

The More You Eat…

a limerick

Newly Illumined

a senyru for the OrthoBros

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Orthodoxy

Orthodoxy

New Site

I will no longer be using WordPress for my main site. Please visit to new home to my online content: https://knotandnous.substack.com

by Peter B September 28, 2021

Orthodoxy

The First Step In Sanctification

Waging unseen warfare

by Peter B December 12, 2020December 12, 2020

Orthodoxy

Forgiveness Is Our First Weapon

Resisting Evil

by Peter B November 3, 2020November 1, 2020

Orthodoxy

Windows of the Soul

Guarding the heart amidst the distractions of life

by Peter B October 29, 2020October 25, 2020

Orthodoxy

The Death of Sin

A Christian Understanding of Freedom

by Peter B October 26, 2020October 25, 2020

Orthodoxy

The Desire of the Spirit

Awakening Our Conscience

by Peter B October 22, 2020October 16, 2020

Orthodoxy

Acquiring the Right Kind of Love

Gospel Love and the Politics of Man

by Peter B October 20, 2020October 18, 2020

Orthodoxy

Love and Altruism

Examining the difference between love from God and love from the world

by Peter B October 19, 2020October 18, 2020

Orthodoxy

The True Meaning of Spirituality

Fulfilling the needs of the spirit within the tripartite man

by Peter B October 16, 2020October 15, 2020

Orthodoxy

The State of Man

Repentance and Humility in The Struggle For Virtue

by Peter B October 15, 2020October 15, 2020

Orthodoxy

What Is Asceticism

An Introduction to The Struggle For Virtue by Archbishop Averky

by Peter B October 14, 2020October 15, 2020

Orthodoxy

I’m Back!

You know I couldn’t stay away!

by Peter B October 13, 2020October 13, 2020

Church Fathers

St. John Cassian On Anger

In which I confess that I am a worm, and not a man. Lord, have mercy.

by Peter B July 30, 2019October 13, 2020

Church Fathers

Lessons of Repentance from Evagrios the Solitude in the Philokalia

Reflections on the Philokalia, instructions for beginning to pray.

by Peter B June 14, 2019October 13, 2020

Orthodoxy

St. Pachomius’ Prayer Rule

Christ is risen! Yesterday, we celebrated St. Pachomius. While scrolling though the daily readings, this name popped out to me. It was last year, while reading through On the Jesus Prayer by St. Ignatius Brianchaninov that I came across a very simple prayer rule: “An Angel of God taught St. Pachomius the Great a rule …

by Peter B May 16, 2019October 13, 2020

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