Metropolitan Saba Isper

The official account of His Eminence Metropolitan Saba of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America

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Being human, created in the image of God, demands that we live with inner freedom that makes us masters of our actions.

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Many people have asked that I share the letter that was read at the funeral of Warren Farha.

I do so not only to honor his memory, but because his life reminds us of an often-forgotten truth: every Christian is called to be an apostle.

Warren lived his baptism faithfully and used the gifts entrusted to him in service to Christ and His Church. May his example inspire us to do the same and to exercise our royal priesthood in whatever vocation God has given us.

Read the letter here:
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Read the full teaching here:
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There are two dangerous ways of approaching the Church Fathers. One turns them into rigid monuments of the past. The other dismisses them as outdated voices irrelevant to modern life. Both misunderstand them...

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To live with the Fathers is not merely to quote them. It is to imitate their relationship with Christ, their holiness, their humility, and their love for the truth...

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Read the full teaching "Guidance on Reader" here: https://t.co/alzUlrQKEU

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Many people read, but not everyone truly understands what they read.

Reading has its own discipline. Without patience, attentiveness, and honesty, a reader can lose his way—and burden a text with meanings it never intended...

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As St. Paul wrote to Timothy: “Devote yourself to reading…” (1 Tim. 4:13) Reading, when approached with truth and humility, becomes an inexhaustible mine of knowledge and a path toward continual maturity.

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Reading is not merely gathering information.
It is an act of purification. It teaches us to listen, to encounter the thoughts of others, and to step outside the fortress of our own assumptions.

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One of the greatest dangers in reading is approaching a text from a preconceived position...

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If you read only to attack, argue, or confirm your own assumptions, you are no longer listening to the text—you are listening only to yourself...