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1 Fwd,2| faith. In the lives of the saints from Apostolic times down
2 Fwd,5| venerates tens of thousands of saints, both individually and collectively.
3 Fwd,5| include great missionary saints. The Church also has collections
4 Fwd,5| I fell in love with its saints. I was profoundly touched
5 Fwd,5| Regarding the women saints of the Church, the same
6 Fwd,6| martyrs, noting that these saints did not find favor with
7 1,1 | once and for all to the saints” (Jude 1:3), and it is the
8 1,1 | Christ's reign with His saints and the limited power of
9 1,2 | is also witnessed by the saints, many of whom saw angels
10 1,16| Apostles, the Church gives both saints the title Holy Rulers, Equal-to-the-Apostles.
11 1,16| Equal-to-the-Apostles was given as well to saints who spread the Christian
12 2,6 | of the Apostles such as Saints Ignatius, Clement, Dionysius
13 2,23| for the equipping of the saints for the work of the ministry,
14 3,2 | Council.~ These Fathers were Saints Athanasius of Alexandria (+
15 4,12| Lord and His holy ones, the saints. St. Basil the Great says
16 4,12| prophets, Apostles, martyrs, saints in general, enjoy a higher
17 4,12| worshiping God and venerating His saints. As such, Dr. Cavarnos explains,
18 4,12| that:~ ~Neither God nor the saints, of course, need the honor
19 4,12| God and the admiration of saints are expressions of a soul
20 4,12| Theotokos, the angels and saints who are depicted in the
21 4,12| Testament were glorified as saints only in the New Testament.~
22 4,12| for glorifying God and His saints. Among these forms there
23 4,12| they depict Christ and the saints with “puffy faces,” “red
24 4,12| the Theotokos, and those saints to whom one regularly prays.
25 4,12| and the martyrs and other saints.~ ~
26 4,17| Apostles or Old Testament saints.~ ~In establishing an authoritative
27 5 | 5. Saints, Monks and Emperors.~ ~
28 5,4 | arose the great monastic saints, the Desert Fathers, of
29 5,4 | transformation, many monastic saints regained the likeness of
30 5,4 | Heaven as they did, these saints barely touched the prosaic
31 5,7 | Twelve Apostles)].~ ~Many saints were given the grace of
32 5,7 | the Russian elders were Saints Seraphim of Sarov and John
33 5,7 | whom have been glorified by saints by the Russian Church in
34 5,8 | produced a great number of saints from every level of society.
35 5,8 | Collection of the Lives of the Saints, vol. 4, p. 254].~ ~After
36 5,8 | faith. In such a state, many saints continued to appear there,
37 6,15| the rest of the body. The saints and various synods since
38 6,16| maintains that many of the saints, in endeavoring to realize
39 6,16| supererogatory merits of the saints in the Church's treasury —
40 6,16| the Mother of God and the saints. Fr. Victor Potapov notes
41 6,16| from the holiest of all the saints, the Mother of God. (Both
42 6,16| as the Church of martyrs, saints, hierarchs and right-believing
43 7,9 | paradotheise] unto the saints” (Jude 1:3). Its source
44 7,9 | the way. It remembers the saints that arise in it, and it
45 7,9 | once delivered unto the saints” [Jude 1:3. Sola Scriptura:
46 7,11| icons of Christ and the saints, and that we venerate them
47 7,11| of the invocation of the saints, of belief in the conscious
48 7,11| about the martyrs and other saints, equal to the ancients,
49 7,11| was “once delivered to the saints” (Jude 1:3) does not change.
50 7,14| Scripture from the ancient saints, who acquired the Holy Spirit
51 7,14| and the lives of the other saints will demonstrate that we
52 7,14| of the Holy Fathers and saints, who, rather than thinking
53 7,14| humbly sit at the feet of the saints who have shown themselves “
54 7,14| knew the Apostles, such as Saints Ignatius of Antioch and
55 7,20| the Three Great Hierarchs: Saints John Chrysostom, Basil the
56 7,20| faithful departed and the saints, things of which the Church
57 9,7 | with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God
58 9,17| of many Eastern writers — Saints Maximus the Confessor and
59 9,23| opened and the bodies of the saints arose. By death He destroyed
60 9,26| most revered of Russian saints, explained that:~ ~Prayer,
61 9,26| the Great of Egypt. Both saints often use the same words,
62 9,26| the Great, but that both saints were partakers of the same
63 9,32| the Confessor describe the saints?~ St. Maximus the Confessor
64 9,32| Confessor describes the saints as those who express the
65 9,35| was not saying that the saints lose their free will, but
66 9,38| reverence for the relics of saints. They understand that the
67 9,38| that was present in the saints' bodies during life remains
68 9,38| power to the bodies of the saints to strengthen the faith
69 9,38| preservation of the remains of the saints of God, as is known from
70 9,38| might of the remains of the saints themselves. Instead, they
71 9,38| prayerful intercession of those saints whose holy relics are before
72 9,38| nearness to them of the saints of God themselves, who once
73 9,38| God, the bodies of some saints remain incorruptible for
74 9,38| witness of the holiness of the saints, a visible sign of God's
75 9,38| that:~ ~Even after death, saints act as they did when living,
76 9,39| on occasion come to the saints even in this life. The textbook
77 9,39| The textbook mentions some saints who have shone with the
78 9,39| 2) The glory of the saints in the earthly life, however,
79 9,39| until the Last Day, when the saints rise from the dead and become
80 9,39| manifested bodily, and the saints' bodies will be outwardly
81 9,39| Orthodoxy reveres the relics of saints. This reverence does not
82 9,39| body. The relics of the saints contain the same divine
83 9,39| that was present when the saints were alive, and these are
84 9,39| shown to the bones of the saints as is to the bodies of those
85 9,39| demons — cf. Mk 16:17). The saints grew all the more conscious
86 9,39| hesychasts praying in silence and saints radiant with the divine
87 9,41| In the present life, the saints have an inward splendor,
88 9,41| cover the bodies of the saints so that their bodies will
89 9,42| ascetic struggle, Orthodox saints throughout the ages regained
90 9,42| willingly submitted to these saints in obedience. Such is the
91 9,42| seen in the lives of the saints right up to very recent
92 10,4 | priesthood, prayers to the saints, and the Church's intercession
93 10,6 | dull, not holiness. The saints all had very vivid and distinct
94 10,7 | attained perfection — the saints in Heaven. The Church is
95 10,10| the Mother of God and the saints, and likewise prayer for
96 10,16| teachers; for the perfecting of saints, for the work of the ministry,
97 10,20| through the prayers of the saints.” [Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy].~ ~
98 10,20| acquired friends among the saints in Heaven, who, when they
99 10,21| of the term communion of saints.~ Although not mentioned
100 10,21| doctrine of the communion of saints when it recites the Apostles'
101 10,21| fact that the veneration of saints has waned in the Latin Church,
102 10,21| Church, the communion of saints is an important matter to
103 10,21| regarding prayers to the saints, Protopriest Victor Potapov
104 10,21| recognize the veneration of saints since it, in their opinion,
105 10,21| consider the veneration of saints as useless, since the saints
106 10,21| saints as useless, since the saints cannot hear our prayers.~ ~
107 10,21| teaching on the veneration of saints, there is no belittling
108 10,21| whatsoever, since we ask of the saints not that which is not within
109 10,21| life — but we pray to the saints as members of the Church
110 10,21| render such honor to the saints. We venerate God's grace,
111 10,21| Psalmist, is “wondrous in His saints.”~ ~As for the hearing of
112 10,21| hearing of our prayers by the saints, for this there is no necessity
113 10,21| Lord deemed many of His saints worthy while still on earth,
114 10,21| the Holy Apostles, the saints, martyrs, confessors, the
115 10,21| Protestantism shuns prayer to the saints.~ Protopresbyter Michael
116 10,21| was of the veneration of saints, an understanding that is
117 10,21| and we do indeed give the saints this glory, according to
118 10,21| be such for us too. The saints are our spiritual brothers
119 10,21| wrote of the nearness the saints have to the throne of the
120 10,21| communion in prayer with the saints is the realization in actual
121 10,21| while still on earth, the saints penetrated in spirit into
122 10,21| All the more are these saints, when they are in Heaven,
123 10,21| who pray to them, for the saints in Heaven “are equal unto
124 10,21| spiritual vision of the saints in Heaven is greater than
125 10,21| teaching of the invocation of saints, knowing that they intercede
126 10,21| Church's veneration of the saints. However, even from the
127 10,21| faith in the prayer of the saints in Heaven for Christians
128 10,22| is given at Baptism. The saints are holy people who pleased
129 10,22| Christians honor all the saints, but they also have a special
130 10,22| Christians have for the saints. In their understanding
131 10,22| understanding of the communion of saints, Orthodox do not look upon
132 10,22| Orthodoxy's veneration of the saints, Archimandrite Panteleimon
133 10,22| Theologian demonstrate the saints do pray for us, and their
134 10,22| teaches us to call upon the saints in our prayers, and affirms
135 10,22| pray for one another.~ The saints hear our prayers and are
136 10,22| 26-27).~ Therefore, the saints rejoice with us or they
137 10,22| not come to help us.~ The saints once lived on earth and
138 10,22| here on earth. Although the saints reside in Heaven now, they
139 10,22| salvation of the world. The saints are always ready to intercede
140 10,22| they lived on earth, the saints earned for themselves God'
141 10,22| the effectiveness of the saints' prayers for us, “The effectual
142 10,22| said about prayers to the saints. The saints do hear and
143 10,22| prayers to the saints. The saints do hear and answer our prayers.~
144 10,22| prayerful intercession of the saints, the Church ends its every
145 10,22| Pure Mother and all the saints.” Also because of the saints'
146 10,22| saints.” Also because of the saints' loving intercession for
147 10,22| Christians always turn to the saints in prayer, and they give
148 10,22| Himself. Thus, in honoring the saints, Christians honor God Himself,
149 10,22| honor God Himself, Whom the saints pleased in their lives here
150 10,26| Even then, however, as Saints John Chrysostom and Basil
151 10,26| the most holy of all the saints? There is no victory without
152 10,28| exceeding greatness. The saints taught that the “fire” of
153 10,28| s love as suffering, the saints will experience His love
154 11,1 | Theotokos, the angels and saints. In the words of the Hymn
155 11,2 | Christ, the Theotokos, the saints, and the individual members
156 11,4 | monastics, righteous and all the saints” who have attained salvation.
157 11,4 | toward the weakness of men, Saints Basil the Great and John
158 11,4 | lives of the God-pleasing saints. And above all, we find
159 11,4 | Church, and the lives of the saints. In this sphere, especially
160 11,4 | missionaries, from the time of Saints Cyril and Methodius in the
161 11,4 | in the ninth century, to Saints Nicholas Kassatkin and Innocent
162 11,4 | brothers from Thessalonica, Saints Cyril and Methodius, for
163 11,4 | traditionally the relics of saints and sacred books were kept,
164 11,4 | Christ, the angels and the saints, and these remind Christians
165 11,4 | icons of the first deacons, Saints Philip and Stephen, are
166 11,4 | icons of especially revered saints. The first icon to the right
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