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The Art of God Incarnate

19 November 2009

To be deified, to experience theosis, is not to become powerful, as power is normally understood. Christianity is curious in this way. Its understanding of the divine is rooted in the life and ...

Byzantine Music for an Orthodox America

18 November 2009

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All these misunderstandings occur because we are very much European in our image of beauty. Beautiful in the Bible does not have any connection with the aesthetically beautiful. Instead of our sharp ...

Question on Problems Which New People Face (Part II)

17 November 2009

Things just take time. That’s perhaps something that people don’t always understand. It takes a long time even to begin to become Orthodox, especially if you’re coming from a spiritual and cultural ...

Question on Problems Which New People Face (Part I)

17 November 2009

Zhanna Menshikova

At first, Orthodox liturgy appears to western senses to be very oriental, something quite foreign - that is part of its attraction for some. But many forget that Christianity is an oriental religion ...

In the Memory of His Holiness Patriarch Pavle

15 November 2009

Orthodoxy and the World

We should be and act like humans in all circumstances thus saving ourselves, our family and our nation and contribute in this manner to the whole of humanity and people of good will. This is my wish ...

Patriarch Pavle of Serbia Reposed in the Lord

15 November 2009

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His Holiness, Patriarch Pavle, is a unique phenomenon for our times; therefore, of course, it would be pointless to make him the measure for other patriarchs, just as it would be, for example, to ...

The Orthodox Marriage Ceremony: Why It Is The Way It Is

13 November 2009

Archpriest Andrew Harrison

The Hidden Kingdom

12 November 2009

There is a part of us that yearns for a Kingdom, because it yearns for a King, for someone strong and personal who is in charge and cares about us. When we grew older perhaps we forgot about the ...

My journey to Orthodoxy

11 November 2009

Harriet (Xenia) Mastrangelo

I had made no actual steps towards becoming Orthodox while on my MA and when my friend returned to Romania he told me if I was interested in doing so I should visit the Monastery of St John and ...

UNPLEASANT DIAGNOSIS. The First Step to Sainthood.

10 November 2009

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It never occurs to us that we might end up outside the Kingdom of Heaven. On the contrary, we think that we will definitely be there, at least somewhere in the 'corner' of heaven. I may not ...

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