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Past Cannot Be Recalled

Past Cannot Be Recalled

17 July 2008

Elena Merkulova

They often say that time heals, pain passes with time. Not quite right. My pain isn’t over, it has changed, as if it sank deep inside. With the lapse of time you begin to take the death of your only ...

Rublev’s “Old Testament Trinity”

16 July 2008

Of course it is not obvious to all that beauty always leads us to God. I once was interviewed by a reporter for National Public Radio, who questioned this point of view. She asked, "Doesn’t all ...

Raising Children Who Believe

15 July 2008

Fr. Peter Gillquist

Central to everything we tried to do as a family was going to church Sunday morning. Even through the struggles of the teenage years, there was never a question as to what we did Sunday morning. I ...

Why Orthodoxy is the True Faith

Why Orthodoxy is the True Faith

15 July 2008

Professor Alexei Ilyich Osipov

We would like to acquaint you with the lecture "Why Orthodoxy is the True Faith," delivered on September 13, 2000, at the Meeting of the Sretenskaya Lord's School in Moscow by A.I ...

Marriage and Possible Alternativees: The Pursuit of Wholeness and Holiness

15 July 2008

Archpriest John H Erickson

A few decades ago the term "open marriage" entered our vocabulary. We also learned about "prenups," i.e., marriage qualified in various ways by formal prenuptial agreements. These ...

The Apostle Peter and Orthodox Conscience

11 July 2008

Among the many passages that describe characteristic aspects of St Peter's life, the most moving is neither his confession at Caesaria of Philippi, which we have already mentioned, nor his ...

About the Apostles Peter and Paul

About the Apostles Peter and Paul

11 July 2008

Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco

The day of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul is the culminating feasts of the Gospel. Although the last event in the life of Christ which is related in the Gospel as His Ascension into heaven (Mark ...

To Meet Your Love

To Meet Your Love

07 July 2008

(Reidman) Schema-Archimandrite Avraam

Many boys and girls think they must lose their virginity as soon as possible, as if it were something unnecessary and unfashionable. They boast of their “first time” among themselves. And the one who ...

Life of Father Arseny.

27 June 2008

Father Arseny ran to Sazikov and begged him, "Help! Please help, Ivan Alexandrovich! They are cutting people up. There is blood everywhere. I ask you in the name of God to stop this! The ...

Fast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. June 23 – July 11

20 June 2008

Fasting consists not just of eating rarely, but also of eating little. And not just in eating only one meal, but in not eating much. Foolish is the faster, who waits for a specific time [to eat a ...

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