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Confession of a Wretched Priest

24 November 2008

Written by: St. Stashkevich

When I was a layman, my frequent sin was censuring priests. Not only for their sins that caught the eye (there were not many sins I would see then). It just seemed to me that this or that priest was ...

An Orthodox Understanding of Stewardship

23 November 2008

Stewardship is clearly a part of the Christian worldview that is based on the fact of unity with nature and the desire for harmony with it. We have to realize that it is not enough to want to be good ...

The Skull on the “Russian” Orthodox Cross

20 November 2008

The skull that viewers can see in iconography of the orthodox crucifixion symbolically represents the skull of Adam. Some believe (although this is not a dogma of the Orthodox Church, but rather a ...

On the Social and Moral Problems of Youth in the 21st Century

20 November 2008

Why do many young people, despite all these pressures and temptations, nevertheless retain the high idealism of youth and find a more moral social ethos? Because we are not in complete bondage to the ...

Don’t Pre-Celebrate Christmas!

Don’t Pre-Celebrate Christmas!

19 November 2008

Priest Andrew George

Some 40 or 50 years ago here in America, people decorated their Christmas trees on Christmas Eve. Slowly, through the influence of merchants and media, we started to put up our decorations and trees ...

Foolishness for Christ

19 November 2008

Being baptized into Christ means putting Him on and living our lives according to His teachings and His example. If we have truly done so, then the same rejection and cries of ridicule await us as ...

The Discipline of Faith

18 November 2008

But discipline is a scary word for us modern people. We chafe against the thought of being subject to any other authority except our own self-will. We equate freedom with doing what we want, when we ...

The tragedy of Man

16 November 2008

The tragedy of our times lies in our almost complete unawareness, or unmindfulness, that there are two kingdoms, the temporal and the eternal. We would build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, rejecting ...

Mission Notes: Saint Nicholas of Japan

Mission Notes: Saint Nicholas of Japan

13 November 2008

Archpriest Geoffrey Korz

Saint Nicholas of Japan was a unique and notable example to all Orthodox Christian missionaries. First, he threw himself wholeheartedly into understanding the language and culture. When he was found ...

An Underground Story

An Underground Story

13 November 2008

And then I did remember the 100 dollars. I felt terribly ashamed and bitter. I felt ashamed because no one had blamed me, and bitter because I saw I was so completely incapable of doing any good and ...

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