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[English Edition / Theology]

Dogma and New Life

Fr Touma (Bitar) on the Council of Chalcedon

Archimandrite Touma (Bitar)

For us, the ecumenical councils are, generally speaking, occasions for defining the faith, clarifying it, refuting every strange teaching and thus every strange way of life. For us, we receive the faith from those who preceded us and we pass it on to those who follow us.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Heart a Throne

A Discourse on the Mystery of Holy Communion

Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov

As part of the special project “Mysteries of the Church” Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov speaks on the essence and meaning of each of the seven Mysteries: Baptism, Chrismation, Repentance, Communion, the Mystery of Marriage, the Mystery of the Priesthood, and Unction. Today we will talk about the Mystery of Communion, its meaning, how to prepare ourselves for this Mystery and how to maintain those gifts that a Christian receives in Communion.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Fellowship with Heretics and the Grossly Immoral

Fr. John Whiteford

It is said of the Old Testament Prophets that they afflicted the comfortable, and comforted the afflicted—and that saying, while pithy, actually has a great deal of merit to it. If you have someone who is a heretic or schismatic, seeking to divide the Church, or a careless sinner whose behavior is causing scandal to the Church, such a person would be in need of some measure of affliction, to wake them up.

[English Edition / Theology]

Remembering the End

Fr. Stephen Freeman

Understanding the true nature of the “end of things,” or, in theological terms, “eschatology,” is a difficult task at first. It breaks many rules of space and time, and requires a certain shift in perspective.

[English Edition / Theology]

“The Hidden Source of Heresy Is Always the Pride of the Human Mind”

The Memory of the Holy Fathers of the Six Ecumenical Councils

Archimandrite Boris (Dolzhenko)

The danger of heretical teachings lies in the fact that the error is so cleverly veiled, argued, and mixed with true words that the inexperienced person will find it difficult to determine what is right and what is wrong.

[English Edition / Theology]

Weeping in Babylon

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Psalm 137 above, a favorite of Christians for expressing lament and exile as we sojourn through this world, also contains verses of such vile violence that some will not read them. Even knowing that the literal interpretation was not the most common reading among ancient church luminaries, doesn’t always make it easy for the modern reader to apprehend how to pray some of these verses.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

What is Spiritual Direction? What is Spiritual Deception? Orthodox Spirituality, Part 6

Fr. Alexey Young

"It is very easy to be deceived in our fallen state and we often deceive ourselves by trying to understand what’s going on. Thus it’s very important to have a spiritual father. The basic cause of deception is despair and a lack of repentance. Proper repentance leads to joy because by it we get in touch with our true self as a creature of God our Creator."

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

How to Prepare for Holy Communion. Orthodox Spirituality, Part 5

Fr. Alexey Young

The seeds of holiness are planted within us at Baptism and Chrismation, but we must nourish these seeds by prayer, fasting, and almsgiving in imitation of Christ and His saints. The spiritual equivalent of the sun is the Holy Spirit—He acts upon us in the Sacraments, especially in Chrismation. In this way, the Church is the seedbed of holiness. We must water the seeds and pull out the weeds and thereby discover that the spiritual path is a tremendous adventure all about going home to God!

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

How to Make a Good Confession. Orthodox Spirituality, Part 4

Fr. Alexey Young

"The holy Fathers give us the antidote for going from vice to virtue. The spiritual life is a science, not an art form. Most of us aren’t so spiritually talented so we need laws and cause and effect in order to learn the spiritual life. St. John Climacus says that the antidote for pride is prayer. Identify where the pride is in your life and ask for strength against it. Human effort can do very little. We must realize that everything depends on God. In prayer we make use of God’s grace, and then we can do almost anything—we can move mountains!"

[English Edition / Church History]

An Exclusive Creed

Fr. Lawrence Farley

Why this insistence on exclusion? The Fathers of Nicea wanted to exclude heresy from the Church for the same reason that a doctor wants to exclude cancer from the body of his patient—because if he includes the cancer in the patient’s body, the result will be the death of the patient. Cancer kills, and so does heresy. Heresy is not simply incorrect opinion, akin to getting a numerical sum wrong. Heresy is stubbornly refusing to accept the truth, in exactly the same way as someone who has been poisoned might stubbornly refuse to accept swallowing the antidote. A person who has been poisoned will die. And the good intentions of the heretic notwithstanding (for who knowingly accepts error?), the person who refuses God’s provided remedy of Christ will also die.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

I did not sign the text "Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World"

Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol

The Orthodox Church of Christ never lost the “unity of faith and the communion of the Holy Spirit” and does not accept the theory of the restoration of the unity of those “who believe in Christ,” because it believes that the unity of those who believe in Christ already exists in the unity of all of Her baptized children, between themselves and with Christ, in Her correct faith, where no heretics or schismatics are present, for which reason She prays for their return to Orthodoxy in repentance.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Day to Day Spiritual Life. Orthodox Spirituality, Part 3

Fr. Alexey Young

"One of the things happening within us is the movement of the imagination, which is one of the main obstacles to prayer and roots us in our fallenness. Spirituality must be based in actual contact with the living God, not with mere images which lead us to communion with our own ability to create religious scenarios. Even Satan can appear as an angel of light and enter into the realm of our imagination and passions."

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The First Year of Marriage

Grammar of Family Life, Part 3

Archpriest Pavel Gumerov

What helps to overcome difficulties in the first year of marriage? What habits should become the norm? Is it worth it to fear conflicts? How should we build relationships with our parents? And why should we study psychology? Archpriest Paul Gumerov speaks on all of this in this installment of our conversation.

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

The Theological Writings of Archbishop John and the Question of "Western Influence" in Orthodox Theology

Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose)

The chief characteristic we can point out in St. John's theological writings is freedom. He is entirely immersed in the Orthodox Tradition, and he is himself a source of true Orthodox theology. He has no kind of foreign influences or any overemphasis on one part of Tradition because of some controversy. This makes him especially valuable as an authority on something which is very much discussed today in the English language: the so-called Western influence on Orthodox theology in the last seven hundred years.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Man’s Spiritual Nature. Orthodox Spirituality, Part 2

Fr. Alexey Young

"St. Theophan the Recluse teaches that a highly active imagination can bring psychological abnormalities, but the spiritually alert have almost no imagination because they are experiencing the reality of God. Thus the saints appear emotionless in icons. They can look at us directly because they can look at sin without judging."

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Holy and Great Council: The Sacrament of Marriage and its Impediments

The institution of the family is threatened today by such phenomena as secularization and moral relativism. The Orthodox Church maintains, as her fundamental and indisputable teaching, that marriage is sacred. The freely entered union of man and woman is an indispensable precondition for marriage.

[English Edition / Theology]

The Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist

Metropolitan Nektarios of Hong Kong and South East Asia

Metropolitan Nektarios of Hong Kong and South East Asia delivered a speech on the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist at the second ecumenical seminar which was held on Sunday, June 26, 2016, in Hong Kong.

[English Edition / Theology]

From the Side of Adam, from the Side of Christ: the Creation of Eve and the Spiritual Life

A Study on the Book of Genesis

Jesse Dominick

This sixth Bible Study on the book of Genesis covers the creation of Eve on the sixth day of Creation. In it we discuss several relevant topics including the status of Adam and Eve in the Church, the meaning of Eve's creation from the rib of Adam, experiences of God in Scripture, relationships between parents and children, the makeup of man, the role of desire and pleasure in the spiritual life, and much more.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Just before the Holy and Great Council

Met. Hierotheos Vlachos

Many texts have been written recently by experts and non-experts, by those who are competent and those who are not, on this great event. Unfortunately, as I have pointed out in another text, in some of them we see that theology is mixed with politics, or rather, various ecclesiastical elements get involved knowingly or unknowingly in the aspirations of politicians, and politicians, too, use various ecclesiastical elements in order to implement their plans through the Church.

[English Edition / Theology]

You are the Crown of Creation: The Creation of Adam

A Study on the Book of Genesis

Jesse Dominick

This fifth Bible Study on the book of Genesis covers the creation of Adam on the sixth day of Creation. In it we discuss several topics surrounding the creation of man, including what it means to be in the image of God, what it means that God "formed" man of the dust, the integral unity of man's body and soul, man's unique position as the summit of creation, and much more.

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