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[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Fasting for Non-Monastics

Fr. Sergei Sveshnikov

A curious phenomenon can be observed in the interactions between pastors and their parishioners at the beginning of each major fast of the Church. Pastors attempt to call their parishioners’ pious attention to the spiritual heights of fasting: the fighting against sin, the conquering of passions, the taming of the tongue, the cultivation of virtues. In turn, parishioners pester their pastors with purely dietary questions...

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Metropolitan Philip Saliba; 1931-2014: Antiochian Orthodox leader recalled as man with vision

Metropolitan Philip Saliba, who in nearly 50 years as leader of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church in North America fostered a growth in membership and parishes while encouraging unity among Orthodox churches, died in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., of heart failure. He was 82.

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

A Lenten Primer. Part 3

Fr. Evan Armatas, John Maddox

We often think of the mysteries or sacraments of the Church in a personal, individual way. We even look at our life as, “me and Jesus”, and this does great damage to the Gospel and the words of Jesus Christ, when He said "Where two or more are gathered in my name, there I am also."

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Schema-Archimandrite Joachim Parr: “Even the Beatles sang about that!”

Christina Polyakova, Archimandrite Joachim Parr

Love always comes with care for the other, not care for yourself. If you love it’s always about the other, not about you. If it’s about you, it’s love of yourself. If you were in a room of ten people and you said, “I love everyone in this room except that person,” it means that you don’t love one out of ten. Do you really love anybody? Of course not! The only one you love is yourself.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

A Lenten Primer. Part 2

Fr. Evan Armatas, John Maddox

So why is it that some would see a need for Great and Holy Lent? We said we were going to talk about the themes and the reasons; I think some of the reasons for Great Lent are in the calendar of events that proceed and mark our time through Great Lent. So let’s step back and take a look.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

A Lenten Primer

Fr. Evan Armatas, John Maddox

How did the Church arrive at such a season and structure of services? And whether you've been through Lent before or this is going to be your first season, you will see that this is a rather complicated season; there is a lot going on, a number of services you haven't seen. There are new names and phrases for things. Certain spiritual disciplines are highlighted that you may not be aware of, or at least you don't typically them see during the rest of the season.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

“In Christ a man receives more than he lost in Adam”

A Conversation with Archbishop Damian of Sinai and Pharan

Deacon Vladimir Vasilik

But then let us think about what kind of purity a man must acquire in order to enter into this Kingdom. Let us not put off our salvation till later, nor hope that we will be purified before death or even at the time of death, or that we will land in “purgatory,” as the Catholics mistakenly think. For those who say, “Later,” it will never come. Therefore let us be concerned about our salvation now, while it is still possible to say, “Now.”

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

A Miracle of the Lord: A True Story of Faith

Simona Georgieva

Erkhan was a Moslem, but the more time he spent with the Christian Stoyan, the more he saw the priest’s striving to do good, the more he wanted to change his religious views. Spending time with Fr. Stoyan and other priests, Erkhan saw them serving molebens, and he began to secretly go to the church and pray for Tanya and himself.

[English Edition / Theology]

A Christian Sabbath for Souls

Gabe Martini

Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? … So it is lawful to do good on the sabbath.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Why They Quit Church … And Came Back

Some of us searched longer than others, but in the end we faded out. We were looking for Jesus. Instead we found programs, guilt, and awkward small talk.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

"We have to return to our roots." A conversation with Fr. Gabriel Bunge

Nun Cornelia (Rees), Schema-Archimandrite Gabriel Bunge

There are so many traces of the undivided Church, the beginnings of Christianity, and by these very archeological facts, I was “pushed” to dig deeper into the foundations of the Church. I am a historian by formation, a numismatic.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

On Preparation for Holy Communion. “We must raise the standard”

Anastasia Rahlina, Bishop Pachomy (Bruskov)

As the Lord said in the Gosples, He that is able to receive it, let him receive it (Mt. 19:12): one person may be capable of living an intense inner life, regularly go to church, and continually search his own conscience—as St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov) says, so that their minds would always swim in the Gospels, in the teachings of Christ. Another person might be so inwardly disposed that it is an ascetic labor for him to receive Communion only twice a year.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Eastern Orthodox Christians practice ancient faith

Ask most East Texans about the major divisions of Christianity and their response will probably mention only two of the three: Roman Catholics and Protestants.The third branch of Christianity, Eastern Orthodox, is relatively unknown in most of the southern United States, but that’s beginning to change.

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Worshipers take unorthodox turn to Orthodoxy

LEWISTOWN — In an old red brick church down a winding road, Gregorian chants and incense rise up to the bell tower.“Kyrie eleison,” the congregants intone, while at the altar, a retired cop-turned-Orthodox priest performs rituals as old as Christianity. When he steps down to face the crowd, he delivers a sermon like a country preacher, sweat beading on his forehead.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Former Taliban from Afghanistan baptized at Mount Athos

Ahmed was born and raised in a village in Afghanistan in the middle of war. For years he worked for the Taliban doing various things. He was a fanatical Muslim who belonged to so-called radical Islam.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Russian Orthodox mission comes to the Felicianas

Members of Tilley’s Bible study group began digging into church history. The search for authentic, old-time religion took them to a place they didn’t expect — Orthodoxy. Now, remarkably, there is a Russian Orthodox mission in West Feliciana Parish.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

An orthodox view: A closer look at the Eastern Orthodox church in Normal

Though many in the United States are largely unfamiliar with the Orthodox faith, it’s the second-largest Christian religion in the world, second only to Catholicism. It is the dominant religion in Russia and much of Eastern Europe and has a significant presence in some Middle Eastern countries.

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“Show me Your God!”

Peter Davydov

“If that Chavchavadze again gives you any sweet rolls, children, bear in mind that he is only doing it to drag you into church! But you, the young pioneers of Vologda, say to him: ‘We may be your classmates, but we do not speak to those who are not pioneers!’...”

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Sister Paula

Olga Rozhneva

God’s providence leads us through life; and how good it is for those who can hear it in time, who try to understand God’s will for themselves. If we make plans for one thing or another but find numerous obstacles on our path to attaining it, we have to slow down and try to discern—is this plan God’s will for us? Sometimes the Lord protects us from danger, holds us back from our impulsive race through life, but we don’t understand it, we keep fussing, insisting upon our own will, instead of simply stepping back, waiting a bit, trying some other way...

[English Edition / Theology]

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ and the Myths of Mystery Cults

Vincent Martini

Again, the focus of these cults and their “rituals” was to ensure—or rather, to attempt to ensure—that their crops would be fruitful at the time of harvest. The movement of these “gods” and “goddesses” from life to death was symbolic of, and intimately connected with, the life and death of their crops (and the resulting offspring). This, of course, begs the question: What does this have to do with the resurrection of Jesus Christ as the only-begotten Son of God the Father?

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