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Foreclosing God the Father from our cultures
We are a people who, for the most part, foreclosed God the Father from our cultures. We did this out of notions of postmodernity and progress, to achieve more freedom and upward mobility than before....
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On foreclosure of the Name of the Father – 3 – Becoming a real father
The capacity for men to develop into functional, rather than dysfunctional, fathers depends directly upon the psychological and spiritual formation in them of a healthy ego-ideal. Formation of the...
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On fatherhood and the Father of fathers
How can fathers – any fathers – fulfill the fatherhood bestowed upon them, natural or otherwise, to its maximum potential, if they do not know or continue refusing to know the Father of all: Him from...
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God the first Person is Father not mother – 1
Israel has not known Me and My people have not understood Me (Is 1:3) It has become common these days, especially among modernists and feminists, to conceive of God the first Person of the Holy Trinity...
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God the first Person is Father not mother – 2
“There never was a time when the Father was and the Son was not, but always the Father and always the Son, Who was begotten of Him, existed together. For He could not have received the name Father...
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God the first Person is Father not mother – 3
The Father is greater than I (Jn 14:28) “The very center of a saving faith is the belief not merely in God, but in God as a Father; not merely in Christ, but in Christ as the Son of God; in Him not as...
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God the first Person is Father not mother – 4
Why is it more fitting to call God the first Person of the Trinity as ‘Father’ and the second Person as ‘Son,’ rather than as mother and daughter? “It is more consistent to call the supreme Spirit...
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We do not know the first Person unless we call Him Father
If only we ourselves loved Him, our heavenly Father, in a truly filial way! (Seraphim of Sarov) “The name Father has thus been revealed to men . . . [but] what is this Father’s own Name? . . . No man...
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Reference point for God’s existence is His Fatherhood – 1
The Father willed His own hypostasis (Athanasius the Great, Third discourse against the Arians). A single God because a single Father (Athanasius the Great). “The ultimate and the foremost point of...
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Reference point for God’s existence is His Fatherhood – 2
In worshiping ‘God of God’ we both confess the distinction of Persons and abide by the Monarchy (Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit, 18; PG 32). The source of power is the Father; the power is the...
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Reference point for God’s existence is His Fatherhood – 3
“The Father derives from Himself His being, nor does He derive a single quality from another. Rather He is Himself the beginning and cause of the existence of all things both as to their nature and...
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Is God my spiritual Father? – Response to a question
The question was asked: “Is God my spiritual Father?” The short answer is: “Not only as that is only one aspect of His function as a Father.” God the first Person of the Holy Trinity is your One, true...
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When the Father is absent
When God our Father is absent from the hearts and lives of the people, chaos returns to the earth because there can be no order without the Father who is order Himself.Filed under: God the Father,...
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The goodness of the Father
The pure goodness found in the Divine Heart of God the Father is indescribable and infinite. His fatherly tenderness and ceaseless generosity never fail to stun and leave one in awe.Filed under: Divine...
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