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Read the Psalms…
Ilya Kaverznev-Prayer and Reflection (date unknown) Everyone is free to choose his own short prayers. Read the Psalms. There you can find in every Psalm inspiring appeals to God. Choose from them...
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Paradoxical Christianity…
Today we often use the word ‘paradox’ to mean ‘a self-contradiction.’ In our Webster’s Dictionary, however, the primary meaning for paradox is ‘a statement that “seems” contradictory, unbelievable or...
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Act wisely in prayer…
Do not be foolish in the requests you make to God, otherwise you will insult God through your ignorance. Act wisely in prayer, so that you may become worthy of glorious things. Ask for things that are...
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O Eve!
“O Eve! My mother, my daughter, life-giving Eve, Do not be ashamed, do not grieve. The former things have passed away, Our God has brought us to a New Day. See, I am with Child, Through whom all will...
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this ever-flowing fount…
When you have learned to venerate the icons of Christ, of the Most Holy Mother of God, and of the saints, to venerate them bending the whole of your being towards them, them you have learned the path...
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Apostoloi…
Lyrics, In English: “O ye Apostles from afar, being now gathered together, here in the place called Gethsemane, give burial to my body; and thou my Son and my God, receive Thou my spirit. Thou art the...
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In His Mercy & Justice…
Yelena Cherkasova- The Righteous Soul Enters Heaven -undated In His mercy, ‘the Lord supports all who fall, and raises up all who are bowed down’ (Ps. 144:15, Psalter 70). Christ in His justice rewards...
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The passion of self-esteem…
“The passion of self-esteem is a three-pronged barb heated and forged by the demons out of vanity, presumption and arrogance. Yet those who dwell under the protection of the God of heaven (cf. Ps....
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“God knows each one.”
The old man said, ‘If we are on the watch to see our own faults, we shall not see those of our neighbor. It is folly for a man who has a dead person in his house to leave him there and go to weep over...
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Repented and to God returned…
Click to view slideshow. HYMN OF PRAISE from The Prologue of Ohrid VENERABLE MOSES THE BLACK [THE ROBBER] Blessed is he upon whom God shows mercy! The mercy of God is joy, In both worlds joy. Moses...
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The Beheading of St. John the Baptist
Click to view slideshow. commemorated August 29 hat tip: St Paul (Brisbane) In addition to the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist on June 24, the church, since the fourth century has...
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the Lord Jesus is the ladder…
Notice what Christ said to Nathaniel in Saint John’s Gospel: “From now on you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man” (Jn. 1:51). My Lord, what is...
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Her parents were Saints Joachim and Anna…
Her Natal Feast Day: September 8th The Most Holy Virgin Mary was born in the Galilean town of Nazareth. Her parents were Saints Joachim and Anna. Saint Joachim came from the tribe of Judah, from the...
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the appalling sin that we commit every day…
“The woman whom You gave to be with me, she deceived me…” Do you understand what Adam is saying? “I am no longer looking for God, but only to justify myself.” Instead of hearkening to God, Who had...
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in the world, yet are not of the world…
Vasili Perov’s First Christians in Kiev 1880 “For the Christians are distinguished from other men neither by country, nor language, nor the customs which they observe. For they neither inhabit cities...
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Pascha as experienced by Hans Christian Andersen…
spotted on FB Orthodox Easter (Pascha) in 19th century Greece as experienced by Hans Christian Andersen, the great Danish author and poet: ‘The Easter of the Catholics in Italy, and particularly in...
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Believing in the Good…
Pavel Ryzhenko Time of Troubles (modern) …we often lightly pronounce sentence and form an idea about someone based upon… not even the knowledge of different facts of his biography, but much more often...
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His Grace Bishop Basil on Syria…
CAUTION: DISTURBING FOOTAGE Lord have mercy! The following is the address given by His Grace Bishop Basil to the parish of St Mary Orthodox Church in Wichita, Kansas regarding the crisis in Syria, on...
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for the Elevation of the Cross…
Second Vesperal Reading for the Elevation of the Cross (hat tip: Dynamis) The Wisdom of the Cross: Proverbs 3:11-18, especially vs. 18: “Righteousness proceeds from her mouth, and she carries law and...
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Sin is abolished only through the grace of God…
Vainly …do conceited people wander about claiming that they have abolished sin through their ascetic accomplishments and their free will. Sin is abolished only through the grace of God, for it was...
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