The Healing of the Lunatic Son. The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
Descending from Tabor, Christ finds a kneeling father and powerless disciples. A patristic reading on faith, prayer and fasting.
Category Patristic Interpretations
“No prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation” (2 Peter 1:20). In Orthodoxy, Holy Scripture is not read according to each person’s own mind, but within the Church, together with the Holy Fathers — those who lived the word before explaining it. Patristic interpretation is not one opinion among others, but the sure path that guards us against distortions and opens the spiritual meanings of the sacred text.
In this category you will find interpretations of the Gospels, the Epistles, the Psalms, and difficult passages of Scripture, following Saint John Chrysostom, Saint Theophylact of Bulgaria, Saint Basil the Great, Saint Ephrem the Syrian, and the other Fathers of the Church.
„I Am”: The Name Spoken in the Storm
The Gospel of the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost (Matthew 14:22-34): Christ walks on the sea, Peter begins to sink, and the Name is spoken before the calm.
The Multiplication of the Loaves and the Division in Corinth — The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, Interpreted by the Holy Fathers
The Epistle and Gospel of the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost: what Paul learned from Corinth and how he answered it, and the day Christ fed five thousand people in the wilderness.
Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the Fourth Ecumenical Council: A Commentary on the Epistle and Gospel Readings
A patristic commentary on the readings for the Sunday of the Holy Fathers of Chalcedon: Titus 3, Romans 15, Matthew 5 and 9, and the High-Priestly Prayer in John 17.
How We Read Holy Scripture in the Orthodox Church
How should Orthodox Christians read Holy Scripture? The road to Emmaus and five patristic steps toward a living, fruitful reading within the Church.