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Sermon on the Sunday of the Holy Myrrhbearing Women

11 May 2008

Now, we know the triumph of Christ. We know the end of the story. We know this even as we walk with these women to the tomb, as they despair, hopeless. Yet still in our lives, we also may deal with ...

What is Orthodoxy?

19 March 2008

Orthodoxy is not only the sum total of dogmas accepted as true in a purely formal manner. It is not only theory, but practice; it is not only right Faith, but a life which agrees in everything with ...

The Triumph of the Icons: History, Theology, and Implications for Orthodox Worship Today

19 March 2008

The only way for Christ to save the world and restore it was to be born in it and to sanctify matter, by becoming matter Himself. Indeed, the Incarnation of the Son of God then not only made the ...

Take Time to Find God

06 March 2008

God had allowed someone to leave a special, little flower on that table so that as she entered the building she would discover it and feel His great love for her. Her heart was greatly touched by ...

No Life in Second Life. Orthodoxy’s Problem with Virtual Reality

26 February 2008

Today, you can visit your second life without going through the difficulties of death. You can escape the difficulties of this reality by advancing to another “virtual” and (if the advertisements are ...

Prodigal son

24 February 2008

How simple and how restrained are the words in which the Gospel describes his cruel rejection of his father, and prepares his departure into the far, the strange country! “Father - give me my part of ...

Biblical Theology and the Sacrament of Penance

16 November 2007

The doctrine of Repentance is represented in different books of the Old and New Testament. There it is set out with different degrees of fullness depending on historical conditions as well as on the ...

Athonite monasticism at the dawn of the third millennium

15 September 2007

As it reached the end of its first millennium in 1963, the monastic republic of Mount Athos seemed to have completed its life cycle and to be breathing its last. It had been born, grown to maturity, ...

Sermon on Easter Retreat: Anthony of Sourozh

05 July 2007

Our reality can really be summed up in saying that God is prepares us to receive salvation. Salvation is an act of God that can only be achieved through cooperation, through the synergy between God ...

The Diary of Tanya Savicheva

28 June 2007

Twelve-year old Tanya Savicheva started her diary just before Anne Frank. They were of almost the same age and wrote about the same things – about the horrors of fascism. And, again, both these girls ...

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