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A Convert’s Heritage – Western Saints

05 November 2010

Those of us whose ancestors are French, Irish, Scandinavian, German, Italian or other British or European nationality, would do well to remember that we too have a rich Orthodox heritage. Unhappily, ...

Saint Romanos Melodos: The Lyric Poetry and Drama of Great Friday

14 October 2010

How did the poetry and music of the Church develop and how do they differ from secular arts? No account of this subject would be complete without mention of Saint Romanos Melodos, whom many scholars ...

The Feast and the Eucharist

12 October 2010

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk

The annual cycle of church feasts and the sacraments of the Church helps a person to move gradually from time to eternity, to the gradual dismissal from things earthly and participation in things ...

Make your Glass Clean

02 October 2010

How many times have you picked up a glass at a restaurant and looked at it carefully before you poured in your beverage to drink. You certainly do that because you want to make sure that the glass is ...

Heirs of Saint Innocent

30 September 2010

Archpriest John J. Dresko

St. Innocent of Alaska (at the time Fr. John Veniaminov) was an amazing man. In a time when travel was thought to be long when someone went to the next town, he journeyed across the whole continent ...

Six Encounters with St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco

02 July 2010

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Vladyka's eyes brightened, as they had done earlier and, turning to me, with an affectionate and approving voice, said: "Look! 'He' has disappeared and won't come back again! ...

Spiritual Papparazzi

01 July 2010

Fr. Vasile Tudora

We hear people many times justifying a sin with a comment: but this is normal, it is in our nature to do so and so. It might be in our nature indeed, but in our fallen nature, not in the nature that ...

What Does It Mean to Be a Christian?

21 June 2010

Protodeacon Andrei Kuraev

2000 years of Christianity are going to be noted everywhere. The most discussed question, both within the Church and outside it, is what 2000 years of Christianity mean and how to relate to them

The Suffering and Death of Children

14 June 2010

We do baptise children. What do we expect, if we expect anything at all? What is the reason why we find it makes sense? Because, consciously or not, we believe that the living spirit, the living soul ...

From Time to Eternity, the Internal Mission of Our Church

13 June 2010

St. Justin (Popovic) of Celije

The first among the asceses-virtues is the ascesis of faith. Through this ascesis the soul of our people must pass and constantly pass: that is, this soul must be given up to Christ without ...

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