Saint Nino Orthodox Church - Stillwater, OK

Orthodox Church in Stillwater and Enid - Oklahoma

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May
22
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all-day at Stillwater
at Stillwater
May 22 all-day
Services in Stillwater are held at the Wesley Foundation at the corner of Washington and University. Enter through the side doors that face west and east – the main doors at the corner will not Continue Reading »
9:30 am 3rd & 6th Hours / Confessions
3rd & 6th Hours / Confessions
May 22 @ 9:30 am – 10:00 am
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10:00 am Divine Liturgy
Divine Liturgy
May 22 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
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May
28
Sat
all-day at Enid
at Enid
May 28 all-day
Enid services are held at the small chapel at St. Matthew’s Episcopal located at 518 W. Randolph Ave. Enter the building through the north entrance; the chapel is immediately to your left. map link here: https://goo.gl/maps/pFkcTumTgqfFKc9g6Share Continue Reading »
9:30 am 3rd & 6th Hours / Confessions
3rd & 6th Hours / Confessions
May 28 @ 9:30 am – 10:00 am
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Is Fasting Really Necessary? Are There Really Any Benefits?

June 28, 2018 By stninoorthodox

Whenever a fast approaches, people look at the minimum that they can do. Instead we should always look at the maximum and recognize our weakness and lack of faith. And indeed those who look at the minimum tend in the long run to abandon fasting altogether.   In 1955 in a labour camp in Soviet
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What Does Sampson Have To Do With Lent ?

February 20, 2018 By stninoorthodox

  “Lent has come, O mother of chastity.  What was the time before this day? A time of fornication.  The soul fornicated with all that struck its eye as pleasant — both with people and with things: more fully, with sinful passions.  Everyone has his passion which he pleases in all he does. It is
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FAST OF THE HOLY APOSTLES PETER AND PAUL

June 23, 2017 By stninoorthodox

The Podvig of the Apostles’ Fast is less strict than during Great Lent: We abstain from eating meat and dairy products throughout the Fast. The Church ustav also provides that, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays during the Apostles’ Fast, we abstain from consuming fish, wine and oil; on the other days of the week, Tuesday
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Sunday of the Prodigal Son – Involuntary Fasting

February 10, 2017 By stninoorthodox

By now you know that we are firmly in the Pre-Lenten period. We are only two short weeks away from the start of the awesome and wondrous struggle that we call Great and Holy Lent. Here during this time before the great fast, the Church gives us of her milk in order to prepare us
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MIRACLE ON ATHOS: INCORRUPT BODY OF ASCETIC FOUND

January 4, 2017 By stninoorthodox

  A miracle has occurred on Mt. Athos—the body of a deceased monk has been found to be without any signs of corruption and not emitting any foul smell, a month and a half after his repose. The deceased monk Fr. Stephen labored in the skete of Kavsokalyvia for forty years. Fr. Stephen led an
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HOW TO SPEND THE TIME OF THE FAST ?

November 28, 2016 By stninoorthodox

The rules of abstinence prescribed by the Church to follow during the Christmas Fast are similar to those prescribed during the Apostles’ Fast. It is clear that during the Fast we must abstain from meat and dairy products. Besides that, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays of the Nativity Fast consumption of fish, oil and wine
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WHY FAST? BECAUSE THIS KIND GOES OUT ONLY BY FASTING AND PRAYER

November 27, 2016 By stninoorthodox

Many Orthodox Christians, do not understand why we fast. This is why we as a people fast so poorly. So many Orthodox Christians barely follow the fast or follow the fasts when they’re convenient, forget to fast, things like this.  We fast because of what the Scripture tells us today. We fast because of this
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The Way of Spiritual Transformation – #7

September 7, 2016 By stninoorthodox

7. On Getting Out of Ruts How can Fr. Isaaky’s words not inspire us toward spiritual transformation? What hinders us from growing unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, as St. Paul says (Eph. 4:13)? It is our egos, our passions, that hinder us. Many of us get stuck in a
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“You have no faith”

August 27, 2016 By stninoorthodox

In today’s gospel (St. Matthew 17:14-23) we are witnesses to another encounter of Jesus with a family that has suffered. A father has just brought his son to the Lord Jesus because he is an epileptic who “suffers terribly”. This father has to bring his son to Jesus Christ because the Lord’s disciples had failed to
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A History of the Apostle’s Fast

June 28, 2016 By stninoorthodox

“The Apostles almost always fasted.” Saint John Chrysostom (Sermon 57 on the Gospel of Matthew) Patristic Testimony Concerning the Fast The fast of the holy Apostles is very ancient, dating back to the first centuries of Christianity. We have the testimony of St. Athanasius the Great, St. Ambrose of Milan, St. Leo the Great and
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