“My faith, finally, is that if I am canceled by the power death has in our world, then God’s greater power can overcome it.” (John Garvey, Death and the Rest of Our Life, p. 78) On my first visit to Armenia in 1990, I visited the home of Anahid and Kevork Oynoyan. They had lost their twelve-year-old
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The Resurrection in Our Life
“How the facts of Christ’s life perplex us! Never are they exactly what we are expecting. And yet they go even further and are more positive than we were expecting. Joseph of Arimatheaburied Jesus, but Jesus is He whom no sepulchre can contain or restrain. The women bring aromatic spices to the tomb; now it is a
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What Does A Healthy Parish Family Look Like? Here’s The Top 6 Characteristics….
The healthy parish family Some years ago, when we adopted our two daughters from Russia, I was searching for an Orthodox parish our eldest might go to. (She had been baptised Orthodox.) I was concerned for her smooth assimilation into American life, so I wanted to find a parish with a good youth program. I
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The Blessing of the Bees
“The bee is small among flying creatures, but what it produces is the best of sweet things.” (Wisdom of Sirach 11:3) There has been in the news the alarming stories of the decline of the bee population throughout the world. Many causes have been postulated to explain this decline. Whatever the cause, the loss 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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AM I BEING DRAGGED THROUGH LIFE BY MY STRUGGLES?
I have never met anyone who did not struggle with someone or something. They struggle at work, or struggle at school. They struggle with a friend or with an enemy. They struggle with the bills and they struggle with debt. They struggle with their spouse or their boyfriend or girlfriend. They struggle with Democrats and
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Eight Sources of Temptation – Elder Cleopa
Teaching on the Eight Means of Temptation and the Struggle Against Them The Holy Fathers say (this is how Fr. Cleopa began to express concisely his spiritual experience to us, inherited from the Holy Fathers and personally experienced by him, as every one of his words clearly confirms) that on the path of salvation one
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CAN YOU REPENT AFTER YOU DIE?
CAN THE DEAD REPENT? Fr. John Whiteford If someone dies without repentance, is it possible for such a person to repent after death? Fr. John Whiteford answers this question through the writings of the holy fathers of the Church. Scripture, as explained by the Fathers of the Church, states that this is not possible. Psalm
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The Eight Deadly Sins ( St. John Cassian )
Our venerable and God-bearing Father John Cassian was a 4th/5th century monastic saint known for his writings on the monastic life and for his correctives of the anti-Pelagian writings of St. Augustine of Hippo. His feast day in the Orthodox Church is February 29th (celebrated on February 28th in non leap years), and it
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‘Bible Answer Man’ – Hank Hanegraaff – Converts To Orthodox Christianity On Palm Sunday
Known to millions as the “Bible Answer Man,” 67-year-old Hank Hanegraaff and his wife were received into the Orthodox Christian Church this year on the great feast of Palm Sunday, at St. Nektarios Greek Orthodox Church in Charlotte, NC. The Bible Answer Man addressed his conversion to the Orthodox faith on his program yesterday, in
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