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Why do we need icons?

21 November 2005

The Second Commandment expressly forbids images of anything, not only of God but of anything at all. We need to ask ourselves the question why this is the case

Confession to a Contemporary

23 October 2005

Protodeacon Andrei Kuraev

We were afraid too. There was a time when we were indignant over things which seemed “absurd”, “ignorant” or “outdated” in the life of the Orthodox Church. We (or, perhaps, most of us who were born ...

Evening Prayers

21 October 2005

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Morning Prayers

21 October 2005

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Having risen from sleep, before all else stand reverently as if before God Who seeth all things. Having made the sign of the cross, say: In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy ...

Chants to the Holy Cross

21 October 2005

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Troparion to the Cross[ 1.92MB ] Koinonikon of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross[ 1.06MB ] Contakion to the Holy Cross [ 1.07MB ] We Venerate Your Cross and Glorify Your Resurrection [ 2.24MB ] ...

We are Going to Live in Paradise: Orthodoxy in Congo

20 October 2005

Road to Emmaus

An Orthodox missionary comes as a person and creates a community. He shows people that, “You and I are going to live in Paradise.” This is a real environment, a real community. He doesn’t say, ...

Holy Matrimony

20 October 2005

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The Image of the Most-holy Trinity, and, except in certain special cases (such as monasticism, for example), he is not intended by God to live alone, but in a family situation. Just as God blessed ...

Holy Eucharist

19 October 2005

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The central place among the Sacraments of the Orthodox Church is held by the Holy Eucharist - the precious Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ

Holy Chrismation

19 October 2005

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The Sacrament of Chrismation awakens in the soul that inner, spiritual thirst which does not let one grow satisfied solely with the earthly and material, but always summons us to the Heavenly, to the ...

ST. John the Baptist

10 September 2005

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

St. John the Baptist is the man who recognizes in Jesus of Nazareth the Lamb of God, God Incarnate, the Man of sorrows. He is the one who in God’s own name declares to those who surround him who He ...

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