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Speech of His Beatitude Theophilos of Jerusalem at the Beginning of the Deliberations of the Primates

His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem

“The purpose of our synaxis is truly holy and sacred, the completion of the work that was commenced a long time ago by our fathers, namely the study, review and resolution of vital issues and problems facing our flocks and our fellow human beings across the globe."

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Address of Serbian Patriarch at the Synaxis of the primates of Local Orthodox Churches in Geneva

Patriarch Irinej of Serbia

We are praying to the Lord, the Founder of the Church, that during the forthcoming days He may inspire us with the spirit of truth and love, and that His blessing may direct this gathering of ours to be inspired by charity, which is the bond of perfectness (Col 3:14), to the glory and benefit of our God-loving Orthodox faithful. Amen.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Re-Sacramentalizing My Life

Rod Dreher

"Even if you are Catholic or Orthodox, if you are an American, you grew up in a nominalist, non-sacramental culture, and this has affected your Christian faith more than you probably realize. It’s true for me."

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The Purpose of Mystery, Paradox and Contradiction

Fr. Stephen Freeman

Christianity is deeply associated with the word “mystery.” Its theological hymns are replete with paradox, repeatedly affirming two things to be true that are seemingly contradictory.

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Homily By His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew During the Divine Liturgy at the Church of St. Paul (Chambésy-Geneva, January 24, 2016)

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

"Our Eucharistic Synaxis in the celebration of the Sacred Mysteries forms the basis and principal source of every other activity – whether administrative, pastoral, charitable or other – that essentially comprise an extension of the Divine Liturgy, the liturgy beyond the liturgy or the liturgical ministry, also extending to every detail and dimension of human life."

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The Light That Shines

Fr. Theodore S.

We cannot travel in the darkness of the world without spiritual sensitivities and without guiding light.

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The Dark Side

Abbot Tryphon

When we experience the “dark side” of the Church

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Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand

Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen)

We hear in the gospel this morning how the Lord Jesus having been baptized, having gone into the desert, having considered His calling, His ministry, began to preach in the same words of St. John the Baptist, “repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” For us also, is a kind of announcement, as it were, (I always take it that way) of that season of repentance which is coming up, the season of Great Lent.

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The Evils of War

Fr. Ted Bobosh

"The cost of war and the evil of war can be the damage it does to us, to cause us to be less than human. The war may end, but sometimes it does not for those wounded by it."

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Do You Have the Proper Understanding of Scripture?

Fr. Athanasios C. Haros

"How we understand the Scriptures will have an effect in how we understand God and His plan for our salvation. If we have an incorrect understanding as the Pharisees did, then we run the risk of rejecting Him and following our own (or others’) interpretation of what it means to be saved."

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Cremation: Incinerating Every Human Trace of Our Dearly Departed

Met. Seraphim of Piraeus

"What kind of relationship can a society have with Life when a society does not accept man in his sickness, his weakness and his death; when a society incinerates its dead; when a society destroys the remembrance of their lives and the reminder to Her members; when a society regards man’s beginning an artificial and selective one and his death a final and irrevocable one; when a society denies the breath of the eternal and entraps itself in the asphyxiation of the ephemeral?"

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Forgiveness and Love

Abbot Tryphon

The capacity to forgive is directly related to the capacity to love, and it is in our act of forgiving others, that we find forgiveness. For it is in the turning away from our own self-concern, and our own self-will, that we begin to see that our salvation is directly linked to the salvation of our neighbor.

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The Morality of Gehenna

Fr. Lawrence Farley

Hell and heaven therefore are in no sense parallel to each other, as the objection presupposes. They are not two different compartments of reality, with heaven on the top-floor penthouse and hell in the basement.

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Moscow Christmas: Head of Russian Church Tells Kids Money Isn't Important (Video)

Who in America could give a similar Christmas speech to young people with this spiritual message?

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The Act of Veneration

Fr. Stephen Freeman

No spiritual activity permeates Orthodoxy as much as veneration. For the non-Orthodox, veneration is often mistaken for worship. We kiss icons; sing hymns to saints; cry out “Most Holy Theotokos, save us!” And all of this scandalizes the non-Orthodox who think we have fallen into some backwater of paganized Christianity.

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Christian Universalism: Will Everyone Finally Be Saved?

Fr. Lawrence Farley

I suggest that the latest interest in Universalism, the belief that everyone will eventually be saved, is the latest fad (or, if preferred, that it is currently fashionable).

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Why do Orthodox Christians bless material things?

So why do Orthodox Christians bless water, and other material things? How can water “be” holy? How can the grace of God be contained in some material object?

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Virgin Mary: mother of all Christians

Fr. Barnabas Powell

Right after Christmas, Orthodox Christians celebrate a feast of the Ever Virgin Mary. Ironically, some who are far from orthodoxy assert that’s when she and Joseph began eyeing each other with a twinkle and trying to make a sibling for Jesus.

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The Patriarch of Romania at Christiana Monastery

His Beatitude delivered a sermon and after the celebration offered presents to the elderly who live at and are taken care of at the social house of the monastery. In 2005, an old folk's home for 24 persons was set up within Christiana Monastery with medical facilities and other spaces for physical recuperation.

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Becoming Whole

Abbot Tryphon

Embrace your material self, together with your soul

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