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Text Box: CONTENTS TOPIC/TITLE Page ~ CONVERSION AND FAITH ARE INTELLECTUAL - BASED IN THE INTELLECT ~ From Metropolitan Archbishop Lee S. Mc Colloster, S.S.B. To the flock entrusted into my care: When Saint Paul became a follower of Jesus Christ he did not do so as a matter of emotion. He did so based on facts; extremely unusual facts, but still, facts. His experience of meeting Our Saviour, of talking with Him, of being told the reality of Our Lord’s Divinity by Our Lord in such an extraordinary manner, made him contemplate page 1 WHEN DO YOU SEEK GOD’S HELP Do you ask for help when you see the storm clouds gathering? Do you ask when you begin your voyage, or when planning it, or are you wise and ask His help when you first awake and all throughout your consciousness so that you also seek His help even in your sleep? page 1 WHO PREPARES YOUR SPIRITUAL FOOD Dried Dung

Text Box: Burns Very Readily The sacred Body and Blood of Christ, Holy Communion, is available to all if they but profess truly what Christ taught and what is preserved in the Orthodox Church, and hopefully in the page 1 GOOD PARENTING DOES NOT INSURE A SUCCESSFUL CHILD, BUT LACK OF PARENTING . . . A certain man married a decent woman and they had three children. He worked very hard and provided a decent life for his family, sending all of his children to good schools, seeing to their religious instruction, and generally parenting them in a good, proper, and reasonable manner. page 1 HEALING THE HEART OF THE HOLY GHOST? By pursuing God with fidelity. One of the great mysteries in man’s relationship with God is why God gives His mercy to some and withholds His mercy from others applying His justice to them. Why does God give some His grace which is necessary to follow Him, and withhold His grace from others - especially since it is impossible to follow God unless one receives the grace from God

Text Box: necessary to follow Him? page 1 LONG BEFORE HITLER, MUSSOLINI, STALIN, LENIN, NAPOLEON, THE KAHN, THERE WAS LYCURGUS (Not a single bit of moral dogma is stated herein. Yet, . . Lycurgus . . . persuaded Thales to go over to Lacedaenon, where Thales, exercising his talent as a lyric poet, “. . . performed the part of one of the most ablest lawgivers in the world. page 1 THE EMPLOYEE OF THE HONEST EMPLOYER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WAGE HE RECEIVES If you needed your wages so that you could live and would die without them, had worked hard all day, or for the amount of time your employer stipulated, and, when it came time to be paid, someone attempted to prevent you from receiving your wages, would you whimper and think, “That is not fair,’ or would you initiate some severe action against the interloper? Would you limit your reaction to argument? To litigation? Would you “get physical” if necessary? page 1

Text Box: And charging the judges, he (Josaphat) said: Take heed what you do: for you exercise not the judgment of man, but of the Lord: and whatsoever you judge, it shall redound to you. Let the fear of the Lord be with you, and do all things with diligence: for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons, nor desire of gifts. (2 Paralipomenon Chapter 19:6-7)

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