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

What do the Gospel Words, "And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come" (Mt. 11:14) Mean?

Hieromonk Job (Gumerov)

The great Prophet Elias was taken up to heaven in a fiery chariot (4 Kings 2:1–18). According to the Old Testament Prophecy, he will return to the earth before the coming of the Messiah Christ: Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD (Mal. 4:5).

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

Sermon on the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

It is also claimed that not only did the apostle Peter found the Church of Rome, but that somehow this gives the Church of Rome some special supremacy and superiority over all the other Churches. This is clearly not true, for the Church of Antioch, which was founded by St Peter, has never claimed any superiority. In reality, when our Lord says in the Gospel: ‘Thou art a rock and on this rock I will build my Church’, it refers not to some special authority given to Peter, it concerns all who confess Christ as the Son of the Living God. All who make this confession have authority, all who confess Christ truly are rocks and are granted the keys to the kingdom.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

On the Descent of the Holy Spirit

From the Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles by St. John Chrysostom Homily I. Acts 1:1–2

But why did the Holy Ghost come to them, not while Christ was present, nor even immediately after his departure, but, whereas Christ ascended on the fortieth day, the Spirit descended when the day of Pentecost, that is, the fiftieth, was fully come (Act. 2:1)? And how was it, if the Spirit had not yet come, that He said, Receive ye the Holy Ghost (Jn. 20:22)? In order to render them capable and meet for the reception of Him.

[English Edition / Theology]

Holy Scripture and the Church

New Hieromartyr Hilarion (Troitsky), Archbishop of Verey

The following article was written in 1914, when St. Hilarion was an archimandrite and a professor of the Imperial Moscow Spiritual Academy. Its message is especially pertinent for our times, when there is widespread confusion and ignorance about the true nature of Christ’s Church and about the right approach to Holy Scripture. It can provide invaluable help to Orthodox Christians in understanding their Faith more deeply, and in defending and giving an account of it when confronted with heterodox — especially Protestant — claims.

[English Edition / Theology]

Search for Truth on the Path of Reason

Alexei Ilyich Osipov

New from Sretensky Monastery, a classic of Christian apologetics by Professor Alexei I. Osipov: The Search for Truth on the Path of Reason, is now available in English. Alexei Ilych Osipov of the Moscow Theological Academy is possibly the most widely known professor of Theology in Russia today.

[English Edition / Theology]

Saint Hilarion (Troitsky). The Unity of the Church and the World Conference of Christian Communities

This brilliant defense of traditional Orthodox ecclesiology by the Holy New-Martyr Archbishop Hilarion — who received a martyr's crown on December 15th, 1929 —, does not seem to be well known, probably owing to its limited publication decades ago by a small monastery press in Canada.

[English Edition / Theology]

The Law of God

A new version of The Law of God by Archpriest Seraphim Slobodskoy published by the Moscow Sretensky Publishing House is now available. The book has been reviewed and recommended by Orthodox Hierarchs internationally. First published in 1957, this latest version of “The Law of God” is sure to engage readers with its exciting new contemporary layout.

[English Edition / Sretensky Monastery]

On the 10th Anniversary of Sretensky Theological Seminary. Priest Vadim Leonov: “At Seminary, you receive the leaven which will enliven the rest of your life.”

Seminary prepares people for service in God’s Church and cultivates the corresponding set of qualities. It seems to me that seminary, first of all, gives a person a clear understanding of what service in the Church is, with all its positive sides, and also a proper understanding of all the difficulties. Often people entering a theological school still aren’t aware of a lot of things. Being immersed in a seminary environment, they come to understand that here one finds not only magnificent church-services and fellowship in love and oneness of mind, but also a particular set of inner trials and temptations.

[English Edition / Theology]

Buddhism and Eastern Asceticism Compared to Orthodox Christian Asceticism

Archimandrite Zacharias

It is unfortunate that there is widespread confusion, not to mention delusion, in the inexperienced, whereby the Jesus Prayer is thought to be equivalent to yoga in Buddhism, or 'transcendental meditation', and other such Eastern exotica. Any similarity, however, is mostly external, and any inner convergence does not rise beyond the natural 'anatomy' of the human soul.

[English Edition / Theology]

World - Dialogues of Truth. Great Anthony and contemporary ecumenism

Protopresbyter Theodore Zisis

It is truly dreadful the vision that Saint Anthony had regarding the presence of the heretics inside Orthodox churches. This vision illustrates and explains graphically the reasons why the Holy Fathers forbid with Synodal canons the entry of the heretics into consecrated places, their participation in services and liturgies, with common prayers and common worshipping.

[English Edition / Theology]

Ο ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΣ ΚΑΙ Ο ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΟΣ ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΙΣΜΟΣ

Πρωτοπρεσβύτερος Θεόδωρος Ζήσης Καθηγητής Θεολογικής Σχολής Α.Π.Θ.

Στο τελευταίο μας άρθρο με τίτλο «Μακράν της οδού των Αγίων Πατέρων η συνάντηση Βαρθολομαίου και πάπα» είχαμε εξαγγείλει ότι θα συνεχίζαμε την έκθεση των εκτιμήσεών μας με βάση τη διαχρονική συνείδηση της Εκκλησίας, όπως αυτή εκφράζεται μέσα στους βίους των Αγίων Πατέρων και διδασκάλων. Επειδή μάλιστα ο Άγιος Σπυρίδων, ο θαυματουργός πολιούχος της Κέρκυρας, έδιωξε τον πάπα μέσα από τον ναό του με ένα εντυπωσιακό θαύμα που έκανε, ενώ οι σημερινοί προκαθήμενοι, τον εισάγουν στους ορθόδοξους ναούς, τον ασπάζονται, τον θυμιάζουν και τον πολυχρονίζουν, σχεδιάσαμε να παρουσιάσουμε αυτό το θαύμα, όπως το διασώζει και το σχολιάζει ο Άγιος Αθανάσιος ο Πάριος, μεγάλος λόγιος και διδάσκαλος του Γένους και μέλος της τριάδος των Αγίων Κολλυβάδων του 18ου αιώνος. Ο σχεδιασμός αυτός και η προτεραιότητα παραμένει, με μία μικρή χρονική παρέκκλιση, λόγω της εορτολογικής συγκυρίας.

[English Edition / Theology]

On the Psychology of Schism

Deacon Jan Veselak

"Behold how good it is for brothers to dwell as one" (Psalms 133:1). Unity and one-mindedness (edinomisliye) are important aspects of the Christian life. St Paul tells us repeatedly that the Church is the Body of Christ (Colossians 1:18). As parts of this body we must work together. This implies, then, that we are interconnected (to use a popular term).

[English Edition / Theology]

On "Scientific" Theologians

Constantine Cavarnos

Kontoglou spoke of certain ‘scientific” (epistemones) theologians, men who had studied theology in Europe and brought to the Greek universities a rather cerebral and so- called “liberal” mode of theologizing. Theocletos Pharmakidis (1784-1862), he noted, was the first Greek theologian of this type. Of recent ones, he cited Demetrios Balanos. Such theologians, he said, regard traditional Orthodox theology, which comes from the roots of Christianity and from the Greek Fathers, as “ossified,” and they come as “renewers” of it.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Interview with Fr. Damascene (Christensen), from the Monastery of St. Herman of Alaska in Platina, California

Hieromonk Damascene (Christensen), Nun Kornilia (Rees)

On Wednesday, the fourth day of the annual Nativity readings began the conference section dedicated to the «Orthodox understanding of creation of the world». One of the speakers was an Orthodox hieromonk, Fr. Damascene (Christensen), an American from the Monastery of St. Herman of Alaska in Platina, California, which belongs to the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Western America. This monastery is well known in Russia as the home of Fr. Seraphim Rose, its founder, and Fr. Damascene is a member of the Brotherhood from the time of Fr. Seraphim’s repose. He is the author Fr. Seraphim’s biography (due to appear in a new Russian version this year under the title Father Seraphim Rose: His Life and Works), and is something of an expert on Fr. Seraphim’s Life and writings in general.

[English Edition / Theology]

DIVIDE AND RULE – THE ANCIENT PRINCIPLE

According to INTERFAX Agency, 407 people have been killed in Moscow in the past several years as a result of terrorist acts. The tragedy in Beslan took away between 338 and 450 lives, including children’s, casualties in Northern Osetia total 1221 people. Not to mention the number of lives wrecked by the tragedies , tears shed and hopes lost. One cannot measure all the pain in the souls of those who have lost their family and friends forever. Witnessing the events and meeting the participants we often hear: ‘Why?’ or ‘What did my nine-year-old do to deserve it? Why did I have to collect her body in pieces after the explosion of the metro car? I have never been interested in dirty political games, black market or oil wars. I love my job. I worshipped my wife and daughter who I have lost…Why?’

[English Edition / Church History]

Symbolism of the Orthodox monastery in "The walk of Agapius to paradise"

Yuri Klitsenko

The story about the walk of Agapius to paradise belong the apocalyptical genre of visions, miraculous ascensions to heaven and journeys to the other world. The main topic of the apocrypha is graceful tie of the Orthodox monastery with the shrines of Palestine and the Garden of Eden.

[English Edition / Theology]

Why Orthodoxy is the true faith

Alexey Osipov

Today all of us are in such a situation that by no way it is possible to separate ourselves from the world. What is the true faith? We live in the world of religious pluralism. We face so many missionaries, each of whom offers his ideals, his life standards, his religious views that the previous or my generation would not envy you for this.

[English Edition / Theology]

Glossary

Reverend John W. Morris, Ph.D.

Orthodox glossary by reverend John W. Morris, Ph.D.

[English Edition / Theology]

Scripture, the Gospel, and Orthodoxy

Fr. John Behr

The relationship between Scripture, the Gospel and Orthodoxy is a huge topic, but is indisputably important. In fact, speaking accurately about these topics is perhaps the most important task for Christians today. As “Scripture” and “Gospel” are seemingly more obvious in their meaning, it is with “orthodox” that I will begin.

[English Edition / Theology]

The Gates of Paradise

Yuri Klitsenko

In the Holy Scripture the temple of God is compared with paradise. In the vision of prophet Ezekiel the garden of Eden grows on the banks of the river that flows from the temple: "Waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar…And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine"(Eze 47:1-12).

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