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 1 Text|         or joy in the Church, we Orthodox first of all look back-for
 2 Text|        were persecutions. Again, Orthodox bishops, monks and laymen
 3 Text|       Church. And since then all Orthodox people, wherever they live,
 4 Text|        is truly apostolic, truly Orthodox, truly universal. This is
 5 Text| Orthodoxy was glorious, THEN the Orthodox Church was powerful, THEN
 6 Text|          once more challenge our Orthodox faith. ~Today, gathered
 7 Text|          gathered here together, Orthodox of various national backgrounds,
 8 Text|        and say we belong to that Orthodox faith, that we are one in
 9 Text|        We call ourselves Eastern Orthodox, and yet we are here in
10 Text|        which were centers of the Orthodox faith for centuries-Constantinople,
11 Text|          they built those little Orthodox churches everywhere in America
12 Text|       this is what happened: the Orthodox Church was sent here through
13 Text|    country and in the world, our Orthodox faith forces us to believe
14 Text|       divine providence that the Orthodox faith today has reached
15 Text|          West, a strong American Orthodox Church comes into existence.
16 Text|         country which is not yet Orthodox, in a society which is asking
17 Text|         us, in all of you in the Orthodox Church in America. And that
18 Text|     Apostolic faith, this is the Orthodox faith, this is the faith