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An Icon As an Image: Direct and Reverse Perspective

14 December 2008

As has already been mentioned, an icon is a window facing the holy, sacred world which opens to a person looking at the icon. Space in that world has properties different from those of the space on ...

Expecting?

12 December 2008

Today’s American families usually prepare for the birth of a child financially and physically: We put aside money for room additions and begin education accounts. We take out insurance policies. Dad ...

Selected Sayings of the Desert Fathers On Fasting

11 December 2008

Fr. John Townsend

Abba Poemen teaches us that we should be careful not to undertake efforts too great for us. This gives the proper perspective in relation to the efforts praised in selections 3 and 4 above. It is ...

On God’s Will

11 December 2008

Maria Gorodova

Sorrow and suffering cleanse a person. By sorrow one becomes stronger; one starts seeing the world and oneself in another light. This is also a manifestation of God’s will when God grants the ...

Orthodox Nativity and Western Christmas: Toward a Renewed Focus

09 December 2008

The fact is that the "Christmas spirit" is the best thing that has ever happened to consumer society. It is equated with the unending desire to buy new and more sophisticated things. Even ...

Orphans

08 December 2008

The Angel of our Church has departed to pray for us before the Lord in Heavenly monasteries. Words are powerless to express our grief. These 18 years of the Church life will remain with me forever. I ...

His Holiness, Patriarch Aleksy II of Moscow and All Russia: A collection of his photos

08 December 2008

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The Most Sensible of Mavericks

06 December 2008

Andrei Zolotov Jr.

For the Russian Orthodox belivers, it has been difficult to come to terms with the death of Patriarch Alexy II, who presided over the re-establishment of the Church for almost two decades following ...

Memoriam: His Holiness, Patriarch Aleksy II of Moscow and All Russia

06 December 2008

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Like the captain of a great ship, he guided the Russian Orthodox Church through troubled waters, rejecting those who would take the Church backwards to pre-revolutionary monarchist times, and at the ...

On December 5, 2008, the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Alexei II, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, Reposed in the Lord

05 December 2008

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On Friday morning, December 5, 2008, His Holiness, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Alexei II, departed to the Lord, after governing the Russian Orthodox Church for eighteen years. The Patriarch ...

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