Category archives: Orthodox Spirituality
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1 year ago
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The "Council" of Crete
and the New Emerging Ecclesiology:
An Orthodox Examination
By Protopresbyter Peter Heers,
Professor of Old and New Testament, Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary,
Jordanville, NY
Lecture delivered at the Clergy Retreat
of the Eastern American Diocese of th... [read more]
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1 year ago
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An Excerpt from Wounded By Love: The Life and Wisdom of Elder Porphyrios
On Dispositions of the Heart
We need always to have thoughts of love for our brothers and sisters
We need to have goodness and love in our soul
Man has such powers that he can transmit good or evil to his environmen... [read more]
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2 years ago
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From punks to monks: the story of Death to the World.
You’re at a punk show. Someone dressed in all black hands you a bunch of black-and-white pages stapled together. Death to the World, says the cover. When you get home and open it up, you’re greeted by unrelenting doom:
The last true rebellion... [read more]
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2 years ago
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The Holy Cave of the Apocalypse
„The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass...” With these words, words simple and divinely-inspired at one and the same time, unaffected words and for that reason so vital, the „B... [read more]
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2 years ago
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St. Prochoros
Prochoros was one of the seven deacons ordained by the apostles and later became the bishop of Nicomedia. According to tradition he followed John the Evangelist to Patmos and wrote about his life, his miracles and his apostolic work. Some scholars have raised doubts as to whether he... [read more]
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2 years ago
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Hosios Christodoulos
Hosios Christodoulos was born in 1021 in Nikaia, Bithynia. He originally lived there as an ascetic, specifically on Mt. Olympos, and then made a pilgrimage to Rome and the Holy Lands (he stayed in the desert of Palestine). Then he went to Asia Minor, to Mt. Latros near Miletu... [read more]
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2 years ago
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Miracles of Saint Gerassimos of Kefalonia
Protector of the Orthodox people...
When Saint Gerassimos arrived in Kefalonia, the place was riled by the Venetians, who were Roman Catholics in the creed and allies wth the Pope and who made sure by any means, direct of indirect, to spread the Popish ... [read more]
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2 years ago
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Chronological Diagram of the life of
Saint Gerassimos
Years of birth: 1506
Departure from Trikala of Corinth in 1527, at the age of 20 years old.
Stay i Zakynthos three years until 1530.
Tours to various Monasteries and to Byzantium 2 to 3 years, from 1530 to ... [read more]
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2 years ago
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http://www.greekorthodoxbooks.com/437F31C7.el.aspx
CONCLUSIONS
From the careful study of the acts and decisions of the Ecumenical Synods we can define with certainty the place of the Church of Rome and her bishop within the communion of all the local Churches during the era of the Ecumenical S... [read more]
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2 years ago
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The holy and glorious Virgin-Martyr Saint Paraskevi (also Paraskeva) was arrested during the reign of the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius (r. A.D. 138-161) under the penalty of refusing to worship idols and adhering to the state pagan religion. After enduring many tortures, she was eventually release... [read more]
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2 years ago
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To those who are be Enlightened, delivered extempore at Jerusalem, as an Introductory Homily to those who had come forward for Baptism
St. Cyril, the Archbishop of Jerusalem
Reading from Isaiah 1, 16: „Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away your iniquities from your souls, from before ... [read more]
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2 years ago
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I See Your Bridal Chamber
Elder Ephraim
„I see Your Bridal Chamber adorned, O my Savior, and I have no wedding garment that I may enter therein. O Giver of Light, make radiant the garment of my soul, and save me,”1 chants our Church during Holy Week.
The Christian soul, the repentant soul, the ... [read more]
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