When celebrating the Theophany, we call to remembrance both that God was made known to people as Trinity and that Jesus was revealed to people as Christ. Where was Christ revealed? Where was His work begun? Did He go to a great city to be revealed there in His Glory? Did He ascend a high
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Metropolitan Hilarion: How We Can Support the Canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, gave an interview to the TV channel RT. – What can the Moscow Patriarchate do to support the Ukrainian Orthodox Church? – First of all, we are praying for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, for Ukraine and for the Ukrainian
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Getting the Gospel Wrong – Why Modern American Christians Need a U-Turn
t may surprise you to hear that the original Gospel—the Good News preached by Jesus Christ and His disciples—is quite different from what is prominently presented today by the vast majority of Christians in America. For many Christians, hearing this original Gospel will involve a major paradigm shift—a radical change in assumptions about God and
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Whatever You Do, Christ Will Certainly Find You
“….When you see Christ, when you gain personal experience, when you feel God’s touch as if another person has touched you, then you will understand that it is not a hoax. You yourself will be convinced of this, your soul will be convinced, ultimately convinced. It is when a person wholeheartedly starts looking for Christ
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Am I Worse than Herod ?
The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew. (2:13-23) One of my professors in seminary would always say that when you read the holy gospels, or when you listen to the words of the Lord Jesus Christ, you should always think of yourself as one of the people that Christ is correcting. Why
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St Nino In The Stillwater Newspress 01/06/2019
St Nino In The Stillwater Newspress 01/06/2019 There were two articles today, about St Nino, in the printed edition of the Stillwater Newspress Article #1 can also be seen online here: https://www.stwnewspress.com/news/some-historically-celebrate-christmas-on-jan/article_31a3d964-113c-11e9-b04a-dfcfddaec68c.html and Article #2 can be found online here: https://www.stwnewspress.com/oklahoma/news/orthodox-church-now-hosting-regular-services-in-enid/image_0dc87682-e305-5083-a9d0-c39355e6e3b2.html ————————— St. Nino Equal to the Apostles contact info: email: StillwaterOrthodox@gmail.com Stillwater office: (405)
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Why Have Thousands of Oklahomans Historically Celebrated Christmas on January 7th ???
For most of America, Christmas was over nearly two weeks ago, but for almost 300 million Christians around the globe, January 7th is Christmas day, and this number includes some Oklahomans. Since before 1897, small groups of Oklahomans have been celebrating Christmas on January 7th. Some of the first Christians in Oklahoma to celebrate
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Saint Moses The Black
Note: The beautiful, just below the following video is of Saint Moses the Black, and is by the hand of Fr. Jerome Sanderson . The icon is on the South wall of the Altar at Unexpected Joy Church , Ash Grove MO, where Fr Abbamoses Berry serves as priest. Fr Moses is the founder of the Brotherhood of Saint Moses the
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Be Able To Recognize Your Fault And Be Sorry For Your Nakedness
Oh, Brethren, what is the result of pride? Oh, see what humility can do? What was the need for all these sufferings? For, if from the beginning Man had humbled himself, obeyed God, and kept the commandment he would not have fallen. Again, after his fall, God gave him an occasion to repent and to
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The Lord Will Grant Help More Quickly When You Do This
“The more a person concentrates on life’s sorrows alone, the more slowly help comes; and the sorrows will not cease until his soul is, to some degree, caught by them, and his conscience itself is held fast as by a fishing line in order to draw him forth from a spiritual death that is more
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