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Prayer And Life

06 June 2005

I have to speak about prayer and action, but I should particularly like to talk to you about prayer, or rather about the aspect of that complex situation which is both prayer and action, and is ...

Some Orthodox Prayers

19 May 2005

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The following are some good basic "training prayers" for children, but can't replace a good Orthodox prayer book. And remember, that the Troparia and Kontakia for the feasts (usually ...

The Church Building and its Servers

09 May 2005

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Orthodox churches generally take one of several shapes that have a particular mystical significance. The most common shape is an oblong or rectangular shape, imitating the form of a ship. As a ship, ...

Saint Thomas Sunday

07 May 2005

He had now seen and he believed. This is the faith of the Church of God, the lordship of Christ in the life of each of us. A lordship that means that we have been bought at a high price, that ...

Christ, the First Fruits

05 May 2005

Without the resurrection, there is no Christianity. It is as simple as that. St. Paul himself taught as much when he declared that "if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, ...

Elder Paisios the New of Mount Athos (Part 2)

18 April 2005

Spiritual love is superior to the love between natural brothers and sisters because one relates to another through Christ and not a common mother. Those who possess this pure (noble) love are full ...

Orthodoxy in Indonesia

10 April 2005

An interview with Archimandrite Daniel Bambang Byantoro. "We had not been together more than a few moments before I felt that a good friend had come to visit after a long journey"

A Siberian Grandmother on Confession

04 April 2005

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My childhood was spent in the Urals, in present-day Ekaterinburg. Like most children during the war years I was in kindergarten much of the time1 and went to school with a muddled heart and a ...

Confessing Christ Today

31 March 2005

Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania

"Blessed be the Kingdom of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy spirit...". It is with the giving of glory to, and the invocation of, the Kingdom, that the Church begins the ...

Optina: The Holy Little Corner

20 March 2005

Fr. Basil Tigrov

The narrative of lay priest Fr. Basil Tigrov [published in Russian as "Svyatoi Ugolok," or Holy Little Corner, Petrograd, 1915] which follows, shows what Optina Monastery was for ordinary ...

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