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- As the saints sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs together, they will be filled with Christ — and they are taught the faith. A lifetime of singing psalms and hymns filled with scriptural truths is one of the main ways that saints of all ages have, throughout history, learned the church’s doctrines.
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In the apostle Paul’s letter to the Colossians, he instructs the church to “let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God” (Colossians 3:16). Paul desires the church members to instruct each other through various m...
Paul wanted the church members to sing to one another from overflowing hearts affected by scriptural truths, rather than from rote or ritualistic motives. Music isn’t spiritual because we’ve used certain words or notes; music becomes spiritual when the Spirit inspires it. And when we sing Scripture — the Spirit’s very words — God often uses his wor...
How, then, can we grow in this ministry of singing? How can we sing so that our minds are instructed and our souls softened? We can start by letting “the word of Christ dwell in [us] richly” (Colossians 3:16) as we memorize psalms and hymns.
No one knows the ruin that marks the souls of men like Jesus does. And no one knows the remedy for such devastation like the Savior of man himself. Everything Jesus does matters, and that includes his singing. Jesus sang. He sang with people and to people. At the Last Supper, Jesus and his disciples sang a hymn together (Matthew 26:30). This was mo...
All Saints teaches us that we are members of a great cloud of witnesses from every generation who have acted in great and small ways to bring about the Kingdom of Heaven. All Souls reminds us to honor those we know who have died in the past year, their graces and their weaknesses.
- Elizabeth Ring
Through the Lives of the Saints, we develop an Orthodox heart. Our monastery’s co-founder, Fr. Seraphim Rose, emphasized constantly this “Orthodoxy of the heart,” especially in his writings and talks at the end of his life; and he frequently referred to Lives of the Saints as a means of developing this….”.
2 days ago · 1 I sing a song of the saints of God, patient and brave and true, who toiled and fought and lived and died. for the Lord they loved and knew. And one was a doctor, and one was a queen, and one was a shepherdess on the green: they were all of them saints of God, and I mean, God helping, to be one too. 3 They lived not only in ages past;
Oct 31, 2023 · Although often unknown to the worldly multitude, their lives hidden in God, the saints are unrepeatable, unique and exemplary examples of what it means to live human life to its fullest. They show us not only the true goal of humanity, but how that goal is attained.
Real and true life—eternal life in God—became possible only with the Incarnation, death and Resurrection of the Saviour, and this life is the Life of the Saints. St. Justin saw the Lives of the Saints as bearing witness to one life: the Life in Christ.
