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05
Jul
2009
Saint Elisabeth...  

3 hours ago by Emma

Causing meekness, humility and love to dwell in thy soul, Thou didst earnestly serve the suffering, O holy passion-bearer Princess Elizabeth; Wherefore, with faith thou didst endure sufferings and death for Christ, with the martyr Barbara. With her pray for all who honor you with love. God grant you ...

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Unison  

6 hours ago by HeighHo

Working Together (Some of Our Ladies Making Perhogies) Today during the sermon, we heard that faith is not a worldview, but rather a mystical inclination of the heart that cannot be expressed in words. We must ask Christ for this gift, for to the one who knocks the door will be opened. Our dear Fath ...

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04
Jul
2009
Hopko on Life and Death  

1 day ago by fatherstephen

The Bible teaches a kind of package plan: You have God, truth, life and glory, or you have demons, darkness, death, satan, sin, corruption, ugliness and rot. This is the basic reality, and there is no middle path. Fr. Thomas Hopko, spoken in Brisbane, Australia, October 1999

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Prayers By the Lake XXII – Shatter the Narrowness of My Soul  

1 day ago by fatherstephen

O Only Son of God, receive me into Your wisdom. You are the head of all the sons of men. You are their heavenly comprehension, illumination and jubilation. You are the One who thinks the same goodness in all men: the same thought and the same light. A man recognizes another man through You. A man pr ...

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Give Silence a Chance...  

1 day ago by Emma

By John Kapsalis We’ve all no doubt heard endless chatter about how our world has become busy and noisy with nary a minute of silence to be found. No need to search far to find some one or some study telling us that we should turn down our iPods, watch fewer channels on cable and try to escape to na ...

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03
Jul
2009
Civilizations and the Kingdom – A Call for Prayer  

2 days ago by fatherstephen

This reprint (with changes) seems fitting for America’s Independence Day celebrations this weekend. I give thanks to God that priests are forbidden (by canon law) to hold political office – not that I would ever be elected – but that I would never want to stand in the place where my Christian faith ...

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02
Jul
2009
Many Years!  

3 days ago by Katherine Johnson

Gregory John here, guest blogging in honor of my Name Day. Yes, today is the feast of my wonderworking patron St. John Maximovitch. (For those of you who don't know, John is my church name.) This is a big day...

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Food for the Soul  

3 days ago by Joseph Patterson

“Prayer is food for the soul. Do not starve the soul, it is better to let the body go hungry. Do not judge anyone, forgive everyone. Consider yourself worse than everyone in the world and you will be saved. As much as possible, be more quiet”. -St. Joseph of Optina [...]

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Literature, Culture and the Western Soul  

3 days ago by Joseph Patterson

T he following article appeared in The Orthodox Word Vol. 19 #1-2, 1983, St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, Platina, CA. T o come to Orthodoxy from the world of today is to come from emptiness to riches, from shallowness to depth, from shams to a reality so all-encompassing that it can, at times, lea ...

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Three Years of the Priesthood...  

3 days ago by Emma

Many Years, Father John!

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