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Pride (In the Name of Love)

Fr. Christian Mathis | October 30, 2011

In this weekend’s homily, Deacon Dave Pecot shares what it means to have a healthy sense of pride and the ugliness that results in having a pride of faith. You can listen here.

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Tags: Deacon David Pecot, discipleship, excellence, homilies, humility, preaching, pride

Golden Tongue?

Fr. Christian Mathis | May 19, 2010

Courtesy of s-p over at Pithless Thoughts.

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Tags: Pithless Thoughts, pride, Steve Robinson

Easy’s Gettin’ Harder Every Day

Fr. Christian Mathis | May 15, 2010

Today was a day centered around struggling. As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, while things began well with this most recent icon, the further along I went, the more difficult it became. This morning I found that even the things that in the past have been the easiest to accomplish, became very difficult. It seemed [...]

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Tags: beauty, difficulties, grace, humility, iconography, mistakes, pride, struggles, Theotokos

Finding God’s Light & Overcoming Pride

Fr. Christian Mathis | May 14, 2010

Today we continued our task of separating light. This afternoon’s task was discover the source of the light that emanates from each icon, that being the light of God Himself. It is his light that shines through the images found on icons of those who have been transfigured. As I worked on this new icon [...]

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Tags: humility, iconography, light, mistakes, pride, Thad Cockrell, theosis, Theotokos

Perfect is the Enemy of the Good

Fr. Christian Mathis | July 16, 2009

Close to a year ago I began this blog with the quote, The perfect is the enemy of the good.” Today’s lesson in iconography helped deepen that belief. We began the process today of adding highlights to the icon as well as layers of paint which are called floats. The highlights are meant to bring [...]

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Tags: forgiveness, iconography, light, mercy, perfect, pride, St. Gabriel the Archangel

You’re So Vain

Fr. Christian Mathis | March 31, 2009

This past weekend an interesting thing happened at one of our liturgies. A woman came up to me at the end of communion and told me that our pastor had given her permission to speak to the church. This didn’t sound like something our pastor would allow, but I had enough doubt to allow it. [...]

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Tags: forgiveness, lying, mercy, panhandlers, pride, trust

Still Hoping for Failure

Fr. Christian Mathis | March 10, 2009

Then seizing him [Jesus], they led him away and took him into the house of the high priest [Caiaphas]. Peter followed at a distance. . . .A servant girl . . . said, ‘This man was with him.’ But he denied it. ‘Woman, I don’t know him,’ he said. A little later someone else saw [...]

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