Chapter, Paragraph
1 Fwd,3| According to the first canon of St. Basil, outside the Church
2 Fwd,4| Jordanville, NY 13361-0036~ ~St. John of Kronstadt Press,~
3 Fwd,5| which the Church venerates St. Monica as a saint but reveres
4 1,1 | the Fathers preserved,” as St. Athanasius the Great (+
5 1,1 | manifest” (1 Cor 11:19). As St. Justin (Popovich) of Chelije (+
6 1,1 | heterodox, in the expression of St. Ignatius the God-Bearer),
7 1,1 | Greek hierarch explains that St. Maximus the Confessor (+
8 1,1 | continues to these times), St. John of Kronstadt (+1908),
9 1,1 | in Rome. However, neither St. Paul, the actual founder
10 1,1 | the Church of Rome, nor St. Peter (perhaps the co-founder)
11 1,1 | one's own infallibility.~ St. Cyprian of Carthage (+258),
12 1,1 | Such they did, and well did St. Nikolai Velimirovich (+
13 1,1 | antichrist will come forth. St. John Chrysostom's words
14 1,1 | The seer of mysteries, St. John the Theologian, describes
15 1,1 | Christianity (pp. 253-54). St. Andrew of Caesarea, they
16 1,6 | by an Apostolic Father, St. Ignatius the God-Bearer,
17 1,6 | another Apostolic Father, St. Polycarp, a disciple of
18 1,7 | 7.~ By what term does St. Ignatius of Antioch refer
19 1,8 | a Eucharistic Society?~ St. Ignatius saw the Church
20 1,8 | celebration of the Eucharist.~ St. Ignatius’ teaching occupies
21 1,10| rather than just a part. St. Cyprian writes:~ ~The episcopate
22 1,11| influence of the Holy Spirit. St. Cyprian of Carthage writes
23 1,11| such statements as that of St. Cyprian?~ From the witness
24 1,13| describes the open opposition to St. Paul's teaching by the
25 1,16| 312 AD was the year that St. Constantine had his famous
26 1,16| Russian prince Vladimir, St. Nina, who was the Enlightener
27 1,17| degree of grace.~· St. Ignatius of Antioch saw
28 1,17| of the Church.~· St. Ignatius saw the bishop
29 2,6 | is important to pause on St. Constantine, for a common
30 2,6 | Later, in the sixth century, St. Catherine's Monastery was
31 2,6 | First Ecumenical Council was St. Athanasius of Alexandria,
32 2,17| and apophatic expressions. St. Gregory the Theologian (+
33 2,17| Christensen goes on to add, St. Maximus the Confessor (+
34 2,17| created works. However, as St. Maximus also states, the
35 2,17| these. The expression of St. John of Damascus (+750)
36 2,17| but to angels as well. St. Gregory the Theologian
37 2,20| and arrogance is offended. St. John Chrysostom says characteristically: “
38 2,20| unthinkable for God.... St. Gregory [the Theologian]
39 2,21| 21.~ How does St. Athanasius sum up the purpose
40 2,21| purpose of the Incarnation?~ St. Athanasius states that “
41 2,30| or ladder is described in St. John's Gospel. “Hereafter
42 2,33| state that according to St. John of Damascus, hypostasis
43 2,35| pressing to the entire Church. St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite (+
44 2,35| standards, they are valid. As St. Maximus the Confessor states: “
45 2,35| natures, was the work of St. Cyril of Alexandria (+444).
46 3,2 | Western writers, confuses St. Gregory the Theologian
47 3,2 | Theologian with his father, St. Gregory Nazianzus. Noting
48 3,3 | substance, consubstantial. St. Athanasius of Alexandria
49 3,4 | typically Western assessment of St. Athanasius the Great and
50 3,4 | so far as to imply that St. Athanasius did not appreciate
51 3,5 | it would have belonged to St. James, the bishop of Jerusalem.~
52 3,5 | Orthodox both believe that St. James was the first bishop
53 3,5 | but only Rome teaches that St. Peter presided over the
54 3,5 | was not presided over by St. Peter.~ In addition, the
55 3,5 | had earlier adhered to. St. Gregory's opposition to
56 3,5 | Church was not recognized.~ St. Gregory's correct understanding
57 3,5 | Concerning these false claims, St. John of Kronstadt stated
58 3,5 | idol of Western humanism), St. Justin (Popovich) of Chelije
59 3,5 | he has become a layman” (St. Basil). Thus, after the
60 3,5 | which Jesus Christ gives to St. Peter the mastery over
61 3,5 | demonstration, is the silence of St. Peter himself! Amidst jeers,
62 3,16| of the Holy Monastery of St. Gregory, Mount Athos, 1994].~
63 3,17| given of these schools — St. Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria,
64 3,17| observes, the argument between St. Cyril and the Nestorians
65 3,17| overstate the importance of St. Cyril's Christological
66 3,18| near-fatal attempt on his life in St. Peter's Square, he had
67 3,18| handed down the answer that St. Zosimas gave when his disciples
68 3,18| antichrist in the end times. St. Zosimas replied: “When
69 4,9 | defenders of holy icons?~ St. John of Damascus (+749)
70 4,9 | Iconoclast controversy. St. Theodore of Studium (+826)
71 4,10| study written theology. St. John of Damascus advised
72 4,12| His holy ones, the saints. St. Basil the Great says in
73 4,12| by the Greek Fathers. As St. John of Damascus remarks,
74 4,12| be represented on icons. St. Photios, Patriarch of Constantinople,
75 4,12| constant with piety.” Likewise, St. Basil teaches that “what
76 4,12| shows by representation.” St. Photios goes on to add
77 4,12| means of awakening people. St. John of Damascus writes
78 4,12| higher plane of being. As St. John Damascene remarks, “
79 4,12| of something heavenly (St. John of Damascus).~ (5)
80 4,12| other saint. In the words of St. Basil, which were repeated
81 4,12| which were repeated by St. John of Damascus and other
82 4,12| sacrilege?” (Rom 2:22).~ St. Nikolai Velimirovich also
83 4,12| Cherubim (Exodus 25:18-22). St. John of Damascus traces
84 4,12| today many icons painted by St. Luke.~ Protopresbyter Michael
85 4,12| the Last Judgment. When St. Methodius showed it to
86 4,12| could happen because, as St. Seraphim of Sarov explains,
87 4,12| the Kingdom of Heaven.~ ~St. John of Kronstadt further
88 4,12| Christian custom mentioned by St. Basil the Great in his
89 4,14| transfigured in both soul and body. St. John of Damascus addressed
90 4,16| matter can be redeemed. As St. John of Damascus explained: “
91 4,17| requires further comment. St. Justin Martyr (+165), the
92 4,18| in its capacity to teach. St. Basil the Great expresses
93 5,1 | spectacle in the homilies of St. John Chrysostom. The textbook
94 5,4 | shores of our modern world.~St. Athanasius the Great writes
95 5,4 | formed with His Apostles. St. Basil the Great gives this
96 5,4 | satisfy.” In the same regard, St. John Chrysostom writes:~ ~
97 5,4 | records of a monk is that of St. Anthony the Great (+356).
98 5,4 | aim and significance of St. Anthony's life was not
99 5,4 | through his miraculous prayer. St. Anthony is the typical
100 5,4 | at the same time.~ After St. Anthony's repose, St. Athanasius
101 5,4 | After St. Anthony's repose, St. Athanasius the Great, the
102 5,4 | of ascetic perfection. As St. Athanasius writes:~ ~How
103 5,4 | story throughout the world, St. Athanasius changed the
104 5,4 | history with the life of St. Anthony, the illiterate
105 5,4 | anchoritic monasticism. St. Anthony's fame spread not
106 5,4 | illumine all.~ Following St. Anthony's example, thousands
107 5,4 | isolation that, in the case of St. Mark of Thrace, he lived
108 5,4 | monasticism was established by St. Anthony the Great. According
109 5,4 | communal monasticism is St. Pachomius the Great.~ Receiving
110 5,4 | those living in the world, St. John of Kronstadt writes
111 5,4 | life. As an old adage from St. John of the Ladder has
112 5,4 | are the pure of heart. As St. Gregory Palamas instructs, “
113 5,6 | even as an angel instructed St. Anthony the Great to remain
114 5,6 | for as was noted above, St. Gregory Palamas explained
115 5,7 | of monasticism himself, St. Anthony the Great, was
116 5,7 | described by his biographer St. Athanasius as a physician
117 5,7 | physician to all Egypt. St. Anthony had many successors
118 5,7 | comfort (1 Cor. 14:3). As St. Barsanuphius, an elder
119 5,8 | the domination of death [St. Demetrius of Rostov, The
120 5,8 | Eve to punishment, but as St. John Chrysostom writes, “
121 5,8 | then were they condemned. St. Ephraim the Syrian states
122 5,8 | on him like a bridle. As St. Cyril of Alexandria explains,
123 5,8 | 91].~ ~In the writings of St. Nikolai Velimirovich, one
124 5,8 | God's justice? The same St. Nikolai penned this answer
125 5,8 | brother Abel (Gen 4:6-7). St. Ephraim the Syrian explains
126 6,7 | and emperors. In spite of St. Jerome's dictum let the
127 6,8 | Professor A.P. Lopukin of the St. Petersburg Theological
128 6,12| Greek — and installed in St. Peter's.~ ~
129 6,14| the most damnable of sins. St. John Chrysostom, for example,
130 6,14| sin of schism. Also, as St. Ignatius of Antioch, a
131 6,14| 1, p. 18].~ ~Likewise, St. Basil the Great instructs:~ ~
132 6,14| Fathers, vol. 2, p. 6].~ ~St. Basil's words are clear
133 6,16| or is even necessary. As St. Mark of Ephesus wrote: “
134 6,16| 42-44; emphasis added].~ ~St. John of Shanghai and San
135 6,18| bishops as Peter's successors. St. John Chrysostom taught
136 7,9 | confirms and strengthens them). St. Paul likewise distinguishes
137 7,9 | of men” (Mk 7:8).~ As for St. Paul, just where did he
138 7,11| also in the Revelation of St. John, which begins with
139 7,11| epistles, especially those of St. Paul. Paul often stresses
140 7,11| slanderer of Tradition, St. Basil the Great says: “
141 7,11| of equal authority.~ ~As St. Basil the Great instructs:~ ~
142 7,11| 188A; emphasis added].~ ~St. John Chrysostom likewise
143 7,11| Tradition are the words of St. John the Theologian:~ ~
144 7,11| unwritten Apostolic Tradition. St. Basil the Great mentions: (
145 7,11| PG 32:188-89, 192-93].~ St. Dionysius ten Aeropagite (+
146 7,11| his defense of holy icons, St. John of Damascus writes
147 7,11| regard are the words of St. Athanasius the Great: “
148 7,13| writer of the Apocalypse, St. John the Theologian (nearly
149 7,14| 2 Peter 1:20). Likewise, St. Cyprian of Carthage instructs
150 7,14| this danger is because, as St. Basil the Great explains, “
151 7,14| nineteenth-century Russian bishop, St. Ignatii Brianchaninov (+
152 7,14| unanswerable passages, or as St. Gregory of Nyssa puts it, “
153 7,14| an apparent constraint. St. Paul writes to the Corinthians: “
154 7,14| classical definition by St. Vincent of Lerins in the
155 7,14| quod ab omnibus creditum). St. Vincent wrote:~ ~Since
156 7,14| back as the fourth century, St. Gregory of Nyssa stated
157 7,14| assertion ignores the fact that St. Paul was “a man in Christ...
158 7,14| eminent dogmatic theologian St. Justin (Popovich) of Chelije
159 7,14| being infallible popes (as St. Ilarion correctly noted
160 7,15| Apostle Philip encountered St. Djan Darada, a eunuch of
161 7,16| save the Revelation of St. John) is read.~·
162 7,17| books was a righteous man, St. Simeon, known as the God-Receiver.
163 7,17| the Child was the Messiah. St. Simeon, who had waited
164 7,17| explains about these words, St. Simeon called the newborn
165 7,17| the Vulgate, translated by St. Jerome, which means the
166 7,19| century, which addressed St. Gregory Palamas' confrontation
167 7,20| explicit formulation. As St. Basil explains, “Some things
168 8,3 | paragraph one of this chapter, St. Gregory Palamas is quoted.
169 8,4 | Fathers, and especially in St. Basil the Great and in
170 8,4 | theologian of the Church, St. John of Damascus. In the
171 8,4 | the fourteenth century, St. Gregory Palamas developed
172 8,12| Spirit, the position that St. Photius maintained against
173 8,12| writers, however, most notably St. Gregory of Cyprus, Patriarch
174 8,12| Patriarch of Constantinople, and St. Gregory Palamas, Archbishop
175 8,14| semi-Sabellian monster,” as St. Photius described it.~
176 8,14| constitute the person,” St. Gregory Palamas stated, “
177 9,3 | prophecy of the past,” as St. John Chrysostom calls Moses'
178 9,3 | becomes, in the words of St. John of Damascus, “assimilated
179 9,5 | understanding perfected,” St. Irenaeus wrote. “It was
180 9,6 | a significant quote from St. Gregory Pa-lamas on the
181 9,6 | Write out this quote.~ St. Gregory Palamas wrote: “
182 9,10| and it means cooperation. St. Clement of Alexandria coined
183 9,14| to grant His grace,” said St. Cyril of Jerusalem (+386); “
184 9,15| the whole human race. As St. Paul repeatedly insists,
185 9,15| becomes because of sin. St. Dositheus, Patriarch of
186 9,15| accepted by Roman theologians.~ St. Gregory of Nyssa wrote
187 9,15| are in God's providence. St. Gregory adds that anyway,
188 9,19| Write out the quote of St. Theophan the Recluse. Explain
189 9,19| Recluse. Explain this quote.~ St. Theophan the Recluse (+
190 9,20| name of the mountain, but St. Cyril of Jerusalem assumes
191 9,24| emblem of that victory. St. John Chrysostom said: “
192 9,26| 26.~ Write out St. Seraphim of Sarov's description
193 9,26| of the Christian life.~ St. Seraphim of Sarov (+1833),
194 9,26| Egyptian desert. As for St. Seraphim, although he was
195 9,26| He further explains that St. Seraphim's ideas are to
196 9,26| seen in the homilies of St. Macarius the Great of Egypt.
197 9,26| the point is not whether St. Seraphim knew the homilies
198 9,26| Seraphim knew the homilies of St. Macarius the Great, but
199 9,27| summed up in these words of St. Seraphim?~ Vladimir Lossky,
200 9,28| much interconnected. As St. Athanasius taught in this
201 9,28| dwelling-place of the Holy Spirit. St. Irenaeus instructed that “
202 9,28| gives Christians life. As St. Paul writes: “If the Spirit
203 9,28| fruits. Among these gifts, St. Paul enumerates the following:
204 9,28| Cor 12:4-11). Elsewhere, St. Paul shows that the Holy
205 9,28| epistle to the Galatians, St. Paul teaches:~ ~The fruit
206 9,28| Spirit is not possible. As St. John the Baptist stated: “
207 9,28| unto him” (Jn 3:34); and as St. Paul stated: “But the manifestation
208 9,28| things consist” (Col 1:17). St. Athanasius of Alexandria
209 9,29| divine nature” (2 Peter 1:4). St. Dionysius the Aeropagite
210 9,29| every Christian must aim. St. Basil the Great expressed
211 9,29| order to become a god, and St. Seraphim of Sarov likewise
212 9,29| as a prior chapter noted, St. Athanasius stated that
213 9,31| Write out the verse of St. John's Gospel cited by
214 9,32| 32.~ How does St. Maximus the Confessor describe
215 9,32| Confessor describe the saints?~ St. Maximus the Confessor describes
216 9,33| expressed constantly in St. John's Gospel and in St.
217 9,33| St. John's Gospel and in St. Paul's epistles?~ St. John'
218 9,33| in St. Paul's epistles?~ St. John's Gospel and St. Paul'
219 9,33| St. John's Gospel and St. Paul's epistles repeatedly
220 9,33| people dwelling in Him. St. Paul saw the Christian
221 9,35| identified with Him in essence” (St. Gregory Palamas).~ Secondly,
222 9,35| personal characteristics. When St. Maximus the Confessor wrote
223 9,37| the short quotation from St. Maximus the Confessor given
224 9,37| explanation which precedes it.~ St. Maximus the Confessor wrote: “
225 9,38| miraculous power of relics. St. Ephraim the Syrian, for
226 9,38| Likewise, with these words St. John Chrysostom invited
227 9,38| to approach the relics of St. Ignatius the God-Bearer,
228 9,38| keep the soul undefiled, St. Paul exhorts Christians
229 9,39| in their earthly lives — St. Seraphim of Sarov, St.
230 9,39| St. Seraphim of Sarov, St. Arsenius the Great and
231 9,39| the Great and Abba Pambo. St. Gregory Palamas states
232 9,39| going to be transfigured. As St. John the Theologian writes: “
233 9,39| 4:20-21).~ Likewise did St. Anthony of Egypt instruct: “
234 9,39| commonplace tasks with which St. Herman of Alaska busied
235 9,42| Genesis 6:5, according to St. Ephraim the Syrian. By
236 9,42| enormous men. According to St. Ephraim, because these
237 9,42| Concerning the offspring of Cain, St. Ephraim states that they
238 10,2 | quote and the quotation of St. John of Kronstadt given
239 10,2 | Father and the Holy Spirit [St. John of Kronstadt].~ ~
240 10,6 | in Christ” (Rom. 12:5). St. Ignatius of Antioch, understanding
241 10,6 | Church of Christ in 1054).~ St. Ignatius1 idea is in keeping
242 10,6 | noted in chapter one that St. Ignatius of Antioch described
243 10,6 | are diversities in gifts,” St. Paul states, “but the same
244 10,10| Cardinal Humbert walked out of St. Sophia's in Constantinople
245 10,11| holds the Church together.~ St. Ignatius of Antioch saw
246 10,13| Write out the quotation from St. Cyprian of Carthage which
247 10,13| only within the Church.~ St. Cyprian instructed: “A
248 10,14| does the textbook modify St. Cyprian's statement?~ The
249 10,14| The textbook modifies St. Cyprian's statement with
250 10,14| accord with some remarks that St. Theophan the Recluse once
251 10,14| in his hagiography that St. Nektary, one of the elders
252 10,14| Leaflet #213 published by the St. John of Kronstadt Press].~ ~
253 10,15| attempts at correction. Even St. Paul erred, but was corrected
254 10,15| erred, but was corrected by St. Paul (see Gal 2). Twice
255 10,15| 2). Twice in Revelation, St. John tells how he worshiped
256 10,16| established by Christ. As St. Paul instructs:~ ~“He gave
257 10,16| position in the Church, St. Dositheus, Patriarch of
258 10,16| which we obtain salvation.~ ~St. Cyprian of Carthage, who,
259 10,16| The bishop's dignity that St. Dositheus spoke of is derivative
260 10,16| occupation is aptly summarized in St. Dositheus’ description
261 10,16| isolation from the other. St. Cyprian states in brief: “
262 10,19| Adrianos, a former abbot of St. Catherine's Monastery on
263 10,19| in the Councils, as did St. Constantine and other Roman (
264 10,20| for all men (1 Tim 2:1); St. John the Theologian — especially
265 10,20| Already in the fifth century, St. Cyril of Jerusalem, a participant
266 10,20| Lord, in the Liturgies of St. Basil the Great, St. John
267 10,20| of St. Basil the Great, St. John Chrysostom and St.
268 10,20| St. John Chrysostom and St. Gregory the Dialogist.
269 10,21| communion with them in prayer.~ St. John the Theologian wrote
270 10,21| existence, the heavenly realm.~ St. John also wrote of the
271 10,21| the Church of Jerusalem, St. Cyril of Jerusalem remarks: “
272 10,21| witnesses of the martyrdom of St. Ignatius the God-Bearer (
273 10,22| Revelation, the visions of St. John the Theologian demonstrate
274 10,22| Metropolitan Gregory of St. Petersburg stated:~ ~There
275 10,23| among women” (Lk 1:28). St. John the Forerunner, as
276 10,23| Theotokos (Lk 1:41,44). St. Elizabeth also venerated
277 10,23| the above quoted words of St. Elizabeth, the Mother of
278 10,23| called her, “full of grace.”~ St. John of Shanghai and San
279 10,23| into conjugal life with St. Joseph the Betrothed and
280 10,23| In the fifth century, St. Jerome pointed out that
281 10,23| of Mary.”~ Moreover, as St. John of Shanghai and San
282 10,23| Pure Mother. As the same St. John points out, the names
283 10,23| broader or narrower sense. St. John notes that in any
284 10,23| close degrees of kinship.~ St. John notes that nowhere
285 10,23| from his first wife (cf. St. Epiphanius of Cyprus, Panarion,
286 10,23| her themselves. Also, as St. John of Shanghai and San
287 10,23| children by her. However, St. John's examination of Scriptures
288 10,23| forever. Of this encounter, St. John of Shanghai and San
289 10,23| Is sung at the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, she is
290 10,25| about Mary are the words of St. Epiphanius of Cyprus (fourth
291 10,26| non-existent problem.”~ St. John, Archbishop of Shanghai
292 10,26| the Holy Spirit.~ The same St. John explains that there
293 10,26| saved by her divine Son.~ St. John of Shanghai and San
294 10,26| the conception by Anna. As St. Basil the Great writes: “
295 10,26| at Pentecost). Again, as St. Gregory the Theologian
296 10,26| overcame all temptations. (St. John Chrysostom, Commentary
297 10,26| Commentary on John, Homily 85; St. Basil the Great, Epistle
298 10,26| an adversary.~ ~The same St. John explains that:~ ~The
299 10,26| Birthgiver of God, pp. 59-60].~ ~St. John quotes lengthy refutations
300 10,26| Blessed Augustine of Hippo and St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan.
301 10,28| 8:12 and other places). St. John the Theologian calls
302 10,28| called in the Apocalypse of St. John the Theologian the “
303 10,28| repent.”~ Fr. Michael quotes St. John Chrysostom, who, in
304 10,28| anthropomorphic, and he quotes St. Anthony the Great, who
305 10,28| attention are the words of St. Theophan the Recluse:~ ~
306 10,28| and gnashing of teeth. St. John of Damascus teaches
307 10,28| experience His love as joy. St. Isaac the Syrian states
308 10,28| to come to pass. In fact, St. John himself says in one
309 11,1 | religion in the world. As St. Vladimir's emissaries reported: “
310 11,1 | the King of Glory enters.” St. Vladimir's envoys stated
311 11,1 | rejection is seen again when St. Alexander Nevsky was forced
312 11,1 | Russian hermit) is that St. Vladimir baptized his Kievan
313 11,3 | largely on unhearing ears. St. Evagrios the Solitary,
314 11,4 | Tuesday to the honor of St. John the Baptist, the greatest
315 11,4 | Thursday, the Holy Apostles and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
316 11,4 | main Orthodox Liturgies: St. John Chrysostom’s (forth
317 11,4 | Chrysostom’s (forth century), St. Basil's (third century),
318 11,4 | third century), and that of St. James, the Brother of the
319 11,4 | exalted penitential Canon of St. Andrew of Crete, and also
320 11,4 | the great miracle-worker St. John of Kronstadt writes:~ ~
321 Ep | end would take place. And [St. John] Chrysostom said that
322 Ep | a hermit of Mount Athos, St. Nilus the Myrrhstreaming (+
323 Ep | nineteenth-century Father, St. Ignatii Brianchaninov,
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