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[Church History]

Monophysite Vanity

Gabe Martini

"The flow of history confirms the reality of the Gospel: the Church is filled to overflowing with sinners. Does their presence in the Church reduce, violate, or destroy her sanctity? Not in the least! For her Head—the Lord Christ, and her Soul—the Holy Spirit, and her divine teaching, her mysteries, and her virtues, are indissolubly and immutably holy." --Archimandrite Justin Popovich

[Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

Counsels of Elder Justin (Pârvu); †June 16, 2013

Archimandrite Justin (Parvu)

On June 16, 2013, at 10:40 p.m., after several weeks of suffering in terrible pain, which became particularly acute during his final hours of life, Archimandrite Justin (Pârvu) departed this temporary life to the habitations of heaven, to the holy martyrs and confessors he so loved, and with whom he so longed to be united.

[Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

A Day to Remember Our Fathers

Gabe Martini

The Council of Nicaea is often the victim of ridicule and historical revisionism. From the grammatical nightmares of Dan Brown novels to the revisionist and anti-ecclesial speculations of Protestant or non-Christian historians, it has certainly become a whipping boy of early Christian history. The problem with many of the critiques of this council is that they are based upon both faithless skepticism and a de-incarnational ecclesiology. Skepticism regarding both the promises of Christ and the work of the Holy Spirit, as well as a vision of the Church that would have both Arius and Athanasius be equally “fathers” of our one, true faith.

[Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

The Ascension of the Lord

St. Nicholai Velimirovich

Thus did the One ascend to Heaven Who held heaven within Himself. He who carries hell within himself will end up in hell, but he who bears heaven within his soul will ascend to heaven. And truly, no one can ascend to heaven other than those who have heaven within; and no one can end up in hell besides those who have hell within.

[Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

On the Feast of the Ascension: A Sermon by Our Righteous Father Sebastian Dabovich San Francisco, 1899

Archimandrite Sebastian Dabovich

The "two men in white apparel," who immediately after the ascension of the Lord appeared to the Apostles and asked them why they stood gazing up into heaven, were without doubt themselves inhabitants of heaven; therefore it is not to be supposed that this was displeasing to them, or that they desired to direct the gaze of those men of Galilee elsewhere. No. They desired only to put an end to the inert amazement of the Apostles when saying: Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?

[Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

Ascension of the Lord — Peace, Holy Spirit , and Forgiveness of Sins

Archbishop Andrei (Rymarenko)

If, during the course of six weeks, the Holy Church has been teaching us to preserve this peace which Christ granted on the first day of His Resurrection, saying: "Peace be unto you" (Jn. 20:19), then now this feeling of peace should fill our hearts. You see, this feeling of peace appears in all of us as an expectation of joy. People search for some kind of rest, some kind of comfort. For this they travel from place to place in order to find peace. And yet this peace is within them, only in an unrevealed state.

[Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

One who came to love suffering

Archpriest Victor Potapov

Anyone who has read A.I Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago or the works of Shalamov, Solonevitch, and other authors who have written about horrible pages from the history of Lenin’s and Stalin’s enslaved Russia can probably call to mind names of gloomy "islands," state concentration camp Gulags, such as Turukhansk, Igarka, Dudinka, and Norilsk...

[Theology]

Leithart and Emptying Nicaea of the Spirit

Gabe Martini

Perhaps a classic analogy would be best served here: The Church is a seafaring vessel, churning through the tumultuous waters of this life. Many times, the Church must wade through dangerous seas, filled with depth charges, icebergs, and every sort of obstacle that the imaginations of Renaissance men and the cunning of the evil one can devise. And yet, despite these continuous assaults, the ship sails ahead, eventually leaving the controversies in her wake.

[Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Sermon on the Sunday of the Blind Man

Архимандрит Тихон (Шевкунов), Монахиня Корнилия (Рис), Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov)

Perhaps today’s story of the healing of the blind man is especially important for us, for our generation. When the Savior walked near the blind man who was known throughout Jerusalem without asking him anything, not even about his faith, he passed by him and healed him. The blind man became a man who sees; the Pharisees began interrogating him, asking him who worked this great benefaction for him—something they themselves would never have been able to do.

[Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

On the Sunday of the Man Born Blind

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

In the case of the man born blind, all his life had been but a preparation for his meeting with Christ. Not only was his soul pure enough, refined by his lifelong handicap, to receive healing from the Lord, but also he confessed Him as the Son of God, thus making the works of God manifest in himself.

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Orthodox Calendar 2013.

Hieromartyr Dorotheus, bishop of Tyre (361). Martyrs Marcian, Nicander, Hyperechius, Apollonius, Leonides, Arius, Gorgias, Selenias, Irenaeus, and Pambo, of Egypt (250-252). St. Illidius (Allyre), bishop of Clermont (Gaul) (385). St. Dorotheus of Thebes (ca. 395)...

Thoughts for Each Day of the Year according to the Daily Church Readings

St. Theophan the Recluse

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