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Orthodox Controversies?

29 August 2008

The following fifteen years have been devastating to the peace of most American churches. People who have lived through these battles are battered and worn. And yet - unbelievably enough — Orthodoxy ...

A Conversation with Metropolitan Kallistos Ware on the Sacramental Life

29 August 2008

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I long for the day when all Christians can receive Communion together. It causes me deep sorrow that I cannot offer the Holy Communion to non-Orthodox. At the same time I believe that the Orthodox ...

Sermon on the Feast of the Dormition

27 August 2008

Archpriest George Morelli

And that is why for us Orthodox Christians the Dormition of the Mother of God is what we are pray that we ourselves may have in every service – a Christian ending to our lives, painless, unashamed ...

The Feast of the Dormition

27 August 2008

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The feast of the Dormition is the last great feast in the Church calendar year. It is preceded by a two week fast. The glorious lot of the Ever Blessed Virgin in the role of God's salvation of ...

Pastoral Considerations on Current Problems: Sex, Natural Law and Orthodoxy

26 August 2008

Archpriest George Morelli

While on Christmas vacation from college, my daughter told me that one of her professors said that sex outside marriage was not against the "natural law." In fact, there was no ...

Western Europeans in Search of Truth. The Nativity of the Mother of God Convent, Asten, the Netherlands

25 August 2008

The sunsets and sunrises in this rural, southern part of Holland emanate mystical shades of effervescent pink, a manifestation which has drawn many an artist to these lowlands. And if one were to ...

Finding One’s Calling in Life

23 August 2008

Protopresbyter Thomas Hopko (+2015)

All are called to be saints, but each person is called to do so in his or her own unique way. No two persons are the same. Each one is different. All are called to partake of God's being and ...

The Holy Fathers

22 August 2008

Hieroschemamonk Ambrose (formerly Fr. Alexey) Young

Because many people think that Christ's Church somehow "died out," or, as even many Protestants believe, that it apostasized during the first century after Christ (as if such a thing ...

MELETI WITH YOUNG PEOPLE IN THESSALONIKI, GREECE

21 August 2008

In the beginning you like somebody very much and you have a strong sexual attraction to the person. People often think that this is love, but it is not. It is a natural physical attraction and when ...

The Need for Fasting

20 August 2008

Protopresbyter Serafim Gascoigne

Whenever a fast approaches, people look at the minimum that they can do. Instead we should always look at the maximum and recognize our weakness and lack of faith. And indeed those who look at the ...

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