What Should I Do, If I Have Not Yet Met That Special Someone? What do Orthodox Christians usually advise those who strongly desire (or for whom it is high time) to get married, but who at the same time are not yet in love or have not met that special someone? Most often, there are
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IS IT POSSIBLE TO RECOGNIZE THE ANTICHRIST?
From the second chapter of St. Paul’s Second Epistle to the Thessalonians it is clear that the teaching about the Antichrist enters into the content of the earliest apostolic evangelization. After giving a description of the Antichrist in the third and fourth verses of that chapter, the holy Apostle writes further to the Thessalonians. “Do you not
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Archbishop Peter’s Pastoral Letter Concerning Las Vegas.
SOURCE: DCMA
Saint Nino of Georgia and a Solar Eclipse
According to the Georgian Chronicles: “He initially opposed his wife’s new religion until he, too, encountered a miracle one day while hunting, riding and “looking over Uplistsikhe” through the woods of Tkhoti mountain when he suddenly was surrounded by a threatening darkness of a solar eclipse. And the king got alone, and he
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OFFICIAL: SYNOD OF BISHOPS RESPONDS TO SISTER VASSA EMAIL
NEW YORK: July 19, 2017 Circular Communique from the Chancery of the Synod of Bishops The Holy Synod, having received the recent text of a publicly-posted e-mail exchange, dated 2nd July 2017, between the Nun Vassa (Larin) and a correspondent, entitled “EMAIL OF THE WEEK: (from a mother, on MY SON IS HOMOSEXUAL),” together
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The Only Voice with Which Any Orthodox Christian Is Entitled to Speak Is the Voice of the Church
—Father Irenei, your writings and work often center on the Church Fathers, and specifically anthropology. What factors influenced you or lead you into that focus and what message does the Orthodox conception of man have for us today in the twenty-first century? —I suppose what interested me firstly in this theme was the concreteness of
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HOMILY ON THE 2ND SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST – ALL SAINTS OF RUSSIA
Brothers and sisters, today the Holy Church opens before us our native heaven—all the Saints who shone in Russia. They shine as bright stars before us. And the first among them is St. Vladimir. He was a gifted military leader, statesman, a man of penetrating mind and strong will. The political situation among the
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SHOULD WE BELIEVE OUR DREAMS?
For me every new article is not something that I have concocted but something that I have experienced. Our pastoral ministry is to plunge into the depths of life where you can find a wide range of topics for new spiritual talks. It is also contact with people, nearly always with their sorrows and very
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Holy, Glorious Apostle Thomas
The Holy and Glorious Apostle Thomas was born in the Galileian city of Pansada and was a fisherman. Hearing the good tidings of Jesus Christ, he left all and followed after Him. The Apostle Thomas is included in the number of the holy Twelve Apostles of the Savior. According to Holy Scripture, the holy Apostle
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BREAKING: NEW MONASTERY JUST ANNOUNCED…HUGE PROJECT TO BE BUILT IN LOUISIANA, USA
Brethren, It is with great joy that I announce to you that His Eminence has blessed a new project for our Western Rite Communities that Hieromonk Ezekiel and I have prayed about and worked on for some time that will now become a reality. With the blessing of His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion, we shall begin
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