by Max Massell | Nov 22, 2020 | Faith, Sunday Scriptures, Feast Days, November
IT’S PROBABLY SAFE TO SAY that most people would prefer to read a story than an academic treatise. Both forms might be conveying the same point, but a narrative is likely to be more compelling – and more memorable – than a dissertation. The Entrance of the...
by Max Massell | Nov 17, 2019 | Faith, Sunday Scriptures, Feast Days, November
IT IS PROBABLY SAFE TO SAY that most people would prefer to read a story than an academic treatise. Both forms might be conveying the same point, but a narrative is likely to be more compelling – and more memorable – than a dissertation. The Entrance of the Theotokos...
by Max Massell | Nov 3, 2019 | Faith, Sunday Scriptures, Feast Days, November
A FEW YEARS AGO, a Greek pilot had this harrowing experience. In mid-air his plane experienced system failure. The instruments disengaged, the engines cut out and there was nowhere to go but down. Suddenly the pilot saw the holy archangel Michael appear beneath the...
by Max Massell | Feb 21, 2016 | Sunday Scriptures, Feast Days, November
It is not unusual that some new believers in every church community increase in their faith while others fall away. This was, after all, the point of the Lord’s parable about the sower and his seed (cf., Luke 8:4-18). This may have also been a problem for the...
by Max Massell | Nov 8, 2015 | Sunday Scriptures, Feast Days, November
THERE IS VERY LITTLE INFORMATION in the New Testament about any of the apostles apart from the chief apostles, Peter and Paul. The Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles tell us a good deal about St Peter. The bulk of Acts concerns the story of St Paul whose epistles...
by Max Massell | Nov 30, 2014 | Sunday Scriptures, Feast Days, November
ONE OF THE MOST REVERED New Testament figures in the Christian East is the Apostle Andrew the First Called. His title comes from the first mention of him in the Gospel of John: “The next day, John stood with two of his disciples. And looking at Jesus as He walked,...
