THE LAW OF SACRIFICE
A Contemporary Byzantine Icon from St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral, Showing Christ Offering Himself Up as Sacrifice in His Heavenly Role as Great High Priest A SERMON FOR THE THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PASCHA By Bp. Joseph ( Ancient Church of the West ) INTRODUCTION: THE FORGOTTEN WORLDVIEW There is, in our time, a peculiar confusion among earnest Christians; a confusion not born of malice, but of misdirection. Many turn eagerly to popular voices, podcasts, and teachers, supposing that they are hearing the ancient, unchanging mind of the Church. Yet often what is presented as “Orthodox” is, in fact, a recent synthesis of ideas that have not occupied the center of our Faith from the beginning: fragments of Evangelical biblical scholarship, clothed in the vestments of antiquity, but lacking the full sacramental and metaphysical coherence of the Apostolic Faith. This can be seen in the poplar “Lord of Spirits” podcast, which presents the unattributed research of the recently departed Dr. Mi...
