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A Russian Orthodox Church Website http://www.pravmir.com Orthodox Christianity and the World Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:27:44 +0000 ru hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Bishop Seraphim (Sigrist): Orthodoxy is just Christianity http://www.pravmir.com/bishop-seraphim-sigrist-orthodoxy-is-just-christianity/ http://www.pravmir.com/bishop-seraphim-sigrist-orthodoxy-is-just-christianity/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:22:27 +0000 admin http://www.pravmir.com/?p=4517 Bishop Seraphim (Sigrist): Orthodoxy is just Christianity

On the feast of the Epiphany in the cycle of conversations “Man before God”, bishop of the Orthodox Church in America His Grace Seraphim (Sigrist) visited the Christian club “The Meeting”...

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How do we give alms? What should we do when we are offended? And more specifically, how can or should we help our monastic institutions, our own parish, our neighbor? I can only pass along what...

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Be honest! Do you really think about the second coming? After all, it’s been about 2,000 years, so why worry now? I don’t like thinking about judgment because I hate to accountable to anyone....

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When the Son of man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of glory: And before Him shall be gathered all nations: and He shall separate...

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Bishop Benjamin of San Francisco and the West was able to give “PravMir” some of his time, which is lucky for us, because his huge territory covers eight states in the United States: Arizona,...

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Saints come in many sizes and varieties, ranging from kings to beggars, surgeons to street sweepers, scholars to the illiterate, the extraordinary to the unnoticed. Some never marry, some are...

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On this festal day, brothers and sisters, the Holy Orthodox Church invites us all to share the joy of the Most Holy Theotokos and the Righteous Symeon the God-Receiver: “Rejoice, O Virgin Theotokos,...

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Human perception is an extraordinary thing. We are very often inclined to accept a given piece of information as true simply on the grounds that, in modern terms, it has a high citation index....

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Dear “John”, I understand that you are on the way to becoming Orthodox. I know nothing about you, beyond the fact that you are English. Before we go any further, there is one point I should...

]]> http://www.pravmir.com/letter-to-a-new-convert/feed/ 0 Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: “In Order to Face the Challenges of Modernity We Must be Highly Educated” http://www.pravmir.com/metropolitan-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-in-order-to-face-the-challenges-of-modernity-we-must-be-highly-educated/ http://www.pravmir.com/metropolitan-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-in-order-to-face-the-challenges-of-modernity-we-must-be-highly-educated/#comments Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:42:36 +0000 Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) http://www.pravmir.com/?p=4412 Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: “In Order to Face the Challenges of Modernity We Must be Highly Educated”

Sermon delivered by Bishop Hilarion of Vienna and Austria during the Divine Liturgy, celebrated at the Three Hierarchs Chapel at St Vladimir’s Theological Seminary on 30 January 2004, by...

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