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Who can describe Your greatness, O Virgin? You made God the Son of Man, and man – the son of God. You reconciled the world with its Creator. You taught us through experience that seeing is possible not only through the senses, and not even only through thought, but also through the purification of the mind and partaking of Divine grace, through which we delve deeper into God-like beauty and delight in it. So let us preserve unity both with God and among ourselves. Let us alwa

🔆 WHY SITUATIONS MATTER Within certain powerful social settings, human nature can be transformed in ways as dramatic as the chemical transformation in Robert Louis Stevenson's captivating fable of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The enduring interest in the SPE (Stanford Prison Experiment) over many decades comes, I think, from the experiment's startling revelation of "transformation of character"- of good people suddenly becoming perpetrators of evil as guards or pathologically p

Dear friends, from the bottom of my heart I congratulate all of us on the feast of the Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God!🙌✨🩵✨ Also, on this day we celebrate the feast of Saint Romanos the Melodist (the Sweet-Singer) - patron of all church singers! 🎶🎼🎶 St. Romanos lived in the 6th century. And the vision of the Protection occurred in the 10th century. St. Romanos composed many kontakia (a brief hymn glorifying God, the Mother of God, or a saint). Today I want to s