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501 9,42| of Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia and America (in Mexico,
502 9,42| stories are those of the Australian aboriginal people, which
503 7,17| Nathanael of Vienna and Austria of the Russian Church in
504 6,6 | Orthodox Serbia from Catholic Austria-Hungary.~ ~
505 7,13| Testament heritage quite authoritatively, in accordance with her
506 6,10| official papal approval or authorization. Charlemagne used the filioque
507 4,17| which claimed Apostolic authorship, but were in fact the work
508 7,14| genius. In Cellini's boastful autobiography (1558), he suggests that
509 6,7 | to assume the role of an autocrat and absolute monarch over
510 8,14| the Creed represents an automatic lapse into heresy, and in
511 3,18| that the disaster cannot be averted, that the die is cast —
512 3,18| late. Instead, he is to await a cataclysmic event ...
513 5,8 | God endured their sins and awaited their repentance. Finally,
514 4,12| Old Testament times were awaiting their deliverance, were
515 10,28| that other world and there awaits the end of this world. And
516 4,12| realm and as a means of awakening people. St. John of Damascus
517 4,12| behold the martyr, the crowns awarded, and my zeal is aroused
518 10,16| Savior, one of the most awesome phenomena of the final days
519 1,1 | their faith. The pagans were awestruck by this witness, and they
520 11,3 | Young comments that the old axiom lex orandi, lex credendi (
521 1,1 | further, and Fr. Michael Azkoul does so with careful and
522 Fwd,5| and pseudo-intellectual babble coming from educators, media
523 10,23| John the Forerunner, as a babe in his mother's womb, leaped
524 4,12| in Western paintings as a baby indistinguishable from all
525 5,8 | unbelievers. Referring to the Babylonian captivity of the Hebrews,
526 9,35| inverted manner against a backdrop of magic, the supernatural
527 7,14| ecumenism, is financially backed by those forces bringing
528 Fwd,6| this book, you of different backgrounds and concerns, you have all
529 10,26| ancestral sin. Rather than backing up, rethinking the matter,
530 11,4 | Catholic priests turn their backs on God and face the congregation
531 6,13| word amor [love] spelled backwards is Roma). As the scholarly
532 Fwd,6| invasions had become a cultural backwater. The East held for of the
533 9,42| the presence on earth of bacteria, viruses and pathogens in
534 6,17| Church from infection by the bacterium of Latin heresy.” It is
535 3,5 | course is somewhat of a mixed bag. While it may be the best
536 7,14| Hegelianism, Unitarianism, Bahai, Buddhism, and all world
537 9,15| theology in the East was more balanced, including the theology
538 6,10| Mass in Rome). The pope balked at first, but then submitted.
539 7,14| Scripture becomes a mere ball of clay, to be molded into
540 11,3 | irreverent, uninspiring and banal, and it was the cause of
541 5,8 | Adam not to condemn him or banish him from Paradise, but to
542 Fwd,6| had to feel the spiritual bankruptcy that exists in the subjective,
543 11,3 | kindergarten looking felt banners. The new worship was irreverent,
544 9,3 | along with the verb created (bara), which is in the singular.
545 Ep | one manifestation of the barbarism of modernity, but there
546 10,23| Blessed is the womb that bare Thee, and the paps which
547 5,4 | as they did, these saints barely touched the prosaic aspects
548 7,19| confrontation with the heretic Barlaam. Thus, the Synodikon of
549 11,4 | gymnasium-style architecture or barn-like concrete temples of modernism
550 5,7 | despair.~ Hieroconfessor Barnabas (Belyaev), Bishop of Pechersky,
551 11,3 | escapades, their crass “P.T. Barnum” commercialism, and their
552 7,17| Consequently, they were officially barred from the Jewish canon (official
553 5,5 | ecumenical policies of Patriarch Bartholomew I, a large number of whom
554 Fwd,5| politically correct routine bashing of Western civilization (
555 11,1 | historians note, history is basically an unbroken continuum in
556 10,28| states that the Church, basing itself on the Word of God,
557 3,11| of Rome, that once-great bastion of Orthodoxy in the West,
558 Fwd,5| that today there are entire battalions of self-appointed theorists, “
559 7,9 | persistently condemned and battled against this kind of tradition,
560 6,18| and was president of the Bavarian Royal Academy of Sciences.
561 9,3 | becomes in his life like a beast, and can finally become
562 10,3 | mother was continuing to beat him and showed no signs
563 9,15| full blessedness of the beatific vision.” This teaching was
564 5,7 | this ability. As Iulia De Beausobre goes on to note, because
565 11,1 | parishioners sing together beautifully as they respond to the choir.
566 6,15| the greatest tragedy to befall Christendom. For the benefit
567 10,26| father, and inasmuch as it befitted Him to be born, He purified
568 2,12| same essence as that which begets. However, that which is
569 7,14| falsehood of this conclusion beggar the imagination. However,
570 8,11| the Roman Catholic Church begs to differ with Christ, with
571 10,22| intercede before God on our behalf. They love us spiritually,
572 4,12| beauty. Icons incite the beholder “to see more clearly and
573 4,12| icons, the more are the beholders lifted up to the memory
574 Fwd,4| you are probably not the belching, swaggering women who demand
575 10,26| Conception is instead a belittlement to the Mother of God. So
576 10,21| veneration of saints, there is no belittling of the Lord's redemptive
577 5,7 | Hieroconfessor Barnabas (Belyaev), Bishop of Pechersky, himself
578 10,22| Jerusalem, or who shall bemoan thee? (Jer 15:1-5). This
579 11,4 | church has no pews, but only benches around the periphery of
580 3,5 | two hundred years, Pope Benedict VIII inserted this addition
581 5,8 | heritage, whose principal beneficiaries were the Greeks and Slavs.~
582 7,11| professor at the University of Berlin, writes:~ ~The Orthodox
583 4,12| safe from harm [Diane Le Berrurieur, “Icons from the Deep,”
584 8,14| diverse as Immanuel Kant, Bertrand Russell, and Rene” Descartes.
585 10,20| and they turned to prayer, beseeching that the sin which had been
586 3,5 | the most illustrious and best-educated bishops of the Latin Church,
587 Fwd,3| outside the Church the bestowing of grace is reduced to nothing
588 2,6 | on the Mount of Olives in Bethlehem, and in Hebron at the Oak
589 10,14| the Truth in its fullness, betray Orthodoxy and enter a different
590 Fwd,6| inquirers are ministers or better-informed laymen, and all are sincere
591 3,18| Therefore, let all readers beware of the herald of the antichrist,
592 Fwd,6| There is no anti feminine bias in this wording, and most
593 7,14| say that they leave the big ship and sit down in a frail
594 10,16| occupation of two sees was called bigamy, and the unlawful occupation
595 3,5 | to receive the power to bind and to loose, this power
596 9,21| the Resurrection of Christ binds together all theological
597 5,7 | he was described by his biographer St. Athanasius as a physician
598 7,14| pride! Even the genre of biography strengthened man's faith
599 9,42| triggers” or “cues” which a “biological Engineer” (that is, God)
600 9,42| light the findings of a biophysicist, one Dr. Lee Spetner. This
601 1,9 | Psalm 109:8, declared, “his bishopric let another take” (Acts
602 11,3 | Orthodoxy, is not the least bit equivocal in endorsing the
603 10,12| that is, equally sharing bits and pieces of the truth.~
604 10,26| not understand that they blaspheme the Mother of God. The Most
605 10,23| the ancient heretics who blasphemed the Mother of God, the entire
606 Ep | covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents,
607 4,12| sacred images and idols blasphemes and defiles icons. Such
608 3,5 | Adding to these deranged blasphemies, two Roman Catholic theologians
609 2,20| presenting them with grossly blatant falsehoods or with an initial
610 9,22| showing that behind Christ's bleeding and broken flesh, Orthodoxy
611 7,5 | us, and keep it free from blemish and diminution, as a royal
612 4,12| human will and action become blended [The Meaning of Icons, p.
613 5,6 | Also, Christ specifically blesses those who engage in ascetic
614 1,1 | Martin Luther.... The popes, blindly and without thinking, cast
615 7,14| of them have a particular blindness to what is written in the
616 11,4 | the Mongols, during the bloodbaths from the forced propagation
617 1,1 | meant that whenever Rome's bloodthirsty Uniate movement could not
618 10,20| committed might be wholly blotted out.” Judas Maccabeus himself
619 9,22| His cheek He received the blows~ From the hands which He
620 7,14| instance, blushing like a blue dog, can promote himself
621 6,18| is not without egregious blunders. For example, Constantine
622 7,14| Evangelical, for instance, blushing like a blue dog, can promote
623 4,12| more refined.~ Before a board has the countenance of Christ
624 1,1 | clergy assassins openly boasted that he alone had killed
625 Ep | their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient
626 7,14| artistic genius. In Cellini's boastful autobiography (1558), he
627 7,14| and sit down in a frail boat and want to sail across
628 6,17| history. Ultimately he gets bogged down in the details of the
629 6,8 | interest to note that when the Bohemian religious reformer Jan Hus
630 9,42| flies, lice, cockroaches, boll weevils, termites, locusts,
631 7,14| was [at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution] when the weak
632 1,1 | in existence in order to bolster the power of the heretical
633 3,5 | tyrants of the world. Pope Boniface VIII (1294-1303), for example,
634 9,29| superficiality [“From the Bookshelf: The Illness and Cure of
635 2,5 | after Byzantium, under the boot of the Turks, the Unia,
636 4,12| their notorious greed for booty, they tore to pieces the
637 10,16| Church as an organization is borne by the hierarchy, which
638 11,4 | cases in which they directly borrowed from each other), yet as
639 1,1 | which was syncretic in its borrowing from various pagan religions
640 2,6 | Italy to the shores of the Bosphorus, calling this city Nea Romi (
641 1,1 | wonder that it could not be bothered by an obscure but loudmouthed
642 Ep | birds and descend to the bottom of the sea like fish. And
643 6,16| movement.~ With regard to the boundlessly insulting and blasphemous
644 7,14| unconditional love, love with no bounds, sharing, salvation, dialogues,
645 7,11| Orthodoxy possesses the bounty of miracles unceasingly.
646 11,1 | state, Vladimir summoned the boyars and elders about the matter,
647 1,11| bishops, but like altar boys, by the pope. At that time,
648 4,12| an incredible degree, and brainwashing people and changing their
649 Ep | Hypostases....~ ~In America's own brand of enforced atheism, people
650 7,3 | Florovsky and Panagiotis Bratsiotis gave as the Church's distinctive
651 6,18| scholarship that proved it was a brazen forgery, the Roman Catholic
652 6,15| Schism of 1054, that is, the breakaway of the Roman Church from
653 10,16| when He had said this, He breathed on them, and saith unto
654 3,5 | Vatican I devotion, the Roman Breviary ascribed various titles
655 2,19| had acquired over men. By bridging the abyss that separates
656 5,8 | misfortunes acting on him like a bridle. As St. Cyril of Alexandria
657 10,23| empires have been forgotten, bright names of women have vanished,
658 7,14| were raised up by God as brilliant illuminators who interpreted
659 10,28| the same fire that will brilliantly shine in the redeemed. While
660 Fwd,6| times. As the Encyclopedia Britannica Yearbook reports, the Orthodox
661 11,4 | expensive material, usually brocade. It is upon this table that
662 10,25| Catholic Bishop Malou of Broughes: “In three respects — as
663 1,1 | silent. However, Fr. Raymond Brown, a Roman Catholic priest
664 7,11| student of Orthodoxy, John Brownlie, who was a distinguished
665 2,6 | entrance and would collect brush and set it on fire, thereby
666 6,18| the rock “upon which God builds” (1 Peter 2:5-8). Again,
667 7,17| Jewish community lacked a built-in, living corrective for correcting
668 11,1 | were sent to the Moslem Bulgars of the Volga (not to be
669 10,10| according to one Catholic news bulletin, some Orthodox Churches “
670 Fwd,5| of Church and state have bullied and browbeat you into this
671 3,11| Rome usually stood as a bulwark of the Christian faith in
672 Fwd,5| quietly placed on a back burner in favor of another one —
673 2,6 | the site of the burning bush, near the place where Moses
674 9,39| which St. Herman of Alaska busied himself. Accounts of his
675 7,14| the Lutherans had them butchered by the thousands. (Although
676 9,39| and clothing orphans and buying books for his students.
677 11,4 | in Russia, the Ukraine, Byelorussia, Carpatho-Russia, Serbia,
678 Fwd,1| truth along the highways and byways of Western Christianity,
679 7,17| noble language and dignified cadence of the traditional King
680 1,1 | the authority of the Roman Caesars as their own prerogative,
681 7,16| various services. It has been calculated that the Liturgy contains
682 11,4 | throughout the Church's calendar year, eight are devoted
683 5,4 | monastic of high spiritual caliber and one whose remains did
684 9,22| a divine manifestation). Calvary points to the empty tomb,
685 9,15| condemnatory as the Augustinian or Calvinist view.~ Also, Orthodoxy has
686 6,2 | theory and actual fact by his campaigns to gain back the Western
687 7,8 | subject to revision or being cancelled?~ As noted in chapter two,
688 11,4 | Cross and a seven-branched candelabrum, the altar fans, and the
689 7,15| Darada, a eunuch of Queen Candice of Ethiopia. As the eunuch
690 10,21| under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto
691 7,13| Orthodoxy's Holy Fathers to canonize Scripture, or to determine
692 4,17| scriptures,” Scripture was canonized from among the writings
693 2,35| accept the decisions and canonizings by the Ecumenical Councils,
694 2,20| fabrication of Anselm of Canterbury (c. 1100) that appeared
695 Fwd,5| spiritual capacities and capabilities and needs. Orthodoxy therefore
696 3,18| Mikhail Gorbachev and the Capitalist West (1990), the Roman Catholic
697 7,4 | Apostles. (When Tradition is capitalized in this work, it refers
698 11,4 | Orthodoxy's services are sung a cappella, without musical instruments.
699 8,14| relations. Thomas Aquinas capsulized this way of thinking in
700 4,12| paintings that hold mankind captive to the world of matter and
701 6,8 | 1409, after which he was captured and burned at the stake
702 9,42| sustenance was a diet of carbohydrates, plant proteins and high
703 10,23| took her to himself and cared for her as a mother.~ After
704 10,14| connection with the textbook's careless lapse in an elementary point
705 11,3 | have turned — grotesque “carnival masses,” “circus masses,” “
706 6,10| by the papacy. Whenever Carolingian requests for an endorsement
707 11,4 | the Ukraine, Byelorussia, Carpatho-Russia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Macedonia
708 9,39| the arts of agriculture, carpentry an other useful crafts;
709 1,1 | monk explains, it is the carrier of the fullest, most accurate,
710 5,7 | and it was given to those carriers of God's grace and otherworldly
711 9,38| unimportant. This idea is a carryover from pre-Christian Greek
712 6,17| have never thought in the Cartesian method of the West. Two
713 6,2 | Following them and the carving up of most of the West among
714 1,1 | often secret police in cassocks) who traffic in the evil
715 1,1 | in its final state in a catacomb existence. It bears repeating
716 Fwd,4| be obtained through the catalogues of the following publishing
717 2,17| negative theology. While cataphatic or positive theology proceeds
718 10,20| presented” [Mystagogical Catechesis V, ch. 9). Particles taken
719 7,15| Fathers. As the Apostle Philip catechized the eunuch, so did the Fathers
720 6,15| decretals of the collection categorically in substantiation of their
721 4,12| differentiate between these two categories was the cause of the Byzantine
722 9,3 | of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth,
723 3,5 | Vatican newspaper La Civilta Cattolica (a Jesuit intellectual journal,
724 6,17| lacking in real substance in causal analysis. This defect no
725 9,42| internal and external parasite causing sickness and misery to humans
726 3,4 | One should be extremely cautious about posing contrasts of
727 5,4 | Anthony, the illiterate cave-dwelling monk and the founder of
728 7,11| If under the persistent, ceaseless persecution — not for generations,
729 2,14| Holy Church of Christ has ceaselessly been concerned that her
730 11,4 | always after the Jewish celebration of Passover. This reckoning
731 11,4 | and on feast days. Daily celebrations are less common, although
732 11,3 | their personal popularity or celebrity status [Dancing Alone: the
733 5,4 | life natural only to the celestial powers; and it was made
734 10,16| have been unmarried and celibate. With the complete renunciation
735 9,42| come to the windows of his cell pecking on the panes. One
736 7,14| men of artistic genius. In Cellini's boastful autobiography (
737 10,23| the pagans (cf. Against Celsus I), they strove to prove
738 9,42| was turned into a cosmic cemetery. Nature does not have a
739 5,4 | life began to develop — cenobitic monasticism, where the ascetics
740 9,7 | does the priest (or deacon) cense the people as well as the
741 9,7 | Rev 8:3,4). When being censed by a priest or deacon, Christians
742 10,22| prayers, like smoke from a censer, rise before God, and He
743 11,4 | examples of virtues, the censure of sin, the graphic examples
744 2,35| emphasized the monotheistic centrality of faith. The second half
745 11,4 | seen outside Orthodoxy, for ceremonial movements are much more
746 9,42| field in which there are few certainties. The entire article, in
747 7,17| that the Septuagint has the certification of God Himself. Moreover,
748 4,12| therefore... define with all certitude and accuracy that just as
749 3,17| Nestorian leanings. As Henry Chadwick observes, the argument between
750 9,42| as well as the Phrygians, Chaldeans, Phoenicians, Babylonians,
751 6,6 | Orthodox faith and to be its champion and protector after the
752 4,4 | Byzantine emperors energetically championed it for reasons of internal
753 11,4 | the elongated naves and chancels of Gothic-style cathedrals
754 7,3 | distinctive characteristics its changelessness, its determination to remain
755 11,4 | by traditional Orthodox chants and thus takes away from
756 3,18| materialism. Out of such chaos, the pope says, the papacy
757 7,11| Eucharist [On the Holy Spirit, chap. 27, PG 32:188-89, 192-93].~
758 2,20| St. John Chrysostom says characteristically: “It is not He Who is at
759 10,10| Archbishop Ilarion (Troitsky) characterizes Protestantism as “Churchless
760 4,12| Velimirovich also addresses the charges of idolatry made against
761 5,7 | Ancient Eastern Church, “The charismatic phenomena of the first centuries
762 7,14| fundamentalists, evangelicals and charismatics) is “just take the Bible
763 5,7 | elders were bearers of these charisms — the special gifts of the
764 10,10| organization and a broad charitable activity. What is the relation
765 10,28| themselves in hell will be chastised by the scourge of love.
766 5,8 | history of mankind: God chastises only after giving people
767 5,4 | spent in prayer, fasting, chastity and vigilance. In such a
768 5,8 | would have been nothing to check the spread of evil in the
769 9,22| at the judgment.~On His cheek He received the blows~ From
770 Fwd,5| Syriac), al-insan (Arabic), chelovyek (Russian), der Mensch (German),
771 7,17| Therefore, he continues, we must cherish traditional s of the Bible
772 5,8 | completely blinded.~ ~God cherishes freedom. In order to love
773 1,16| Christian symbol of the chi rho (XP) on the weapons
774 Fwd,6| April 4, 1998 edition of the Chicago Tribune noted that “within
775 6,16| of Galatians), Peter was chided by Paul for not keeping
776 6,2 | the West among barbarian chieftains, the Greek East and Latin
777 9,42| poisonous spiders, ticks, mites, chiggers and scorpions?~ Investigation
778 11,4 | familiarity from earliest childhood, is entirely at home in
779 1,1 | Orthodox Christian to hold chiliastic ideas as private opinions
780 9,3 | his own efforts and moral choices (though in conjunction with
781 4,12| place-of-therapy of souls, the church, choked as it were by the thorns
782 11,1 | Dolskaya, “Russian Liturgical Choral Aesthetics...,” Orthodox
783 3,4 | members of a harmonious chorus [The Orthodox Church and
784 10,6 | As the Greek theologian Chrestos Androustos adds, the Church
785 1,1 | spoken of as a societas Christiana. Fr. Michael also states
786 5,8 | of society. Moreover, its Christianization of the Balkans and the Slavo-Varangian
787 Fwd,6| the world” [Fr. Damascene Christiansen]. As he and countless other
788 11,4 | fact that this “feast” of Christmas in the West has become for
789 3,17| of Christ [“Eucharist and Christology in the Nestorian Controversy,”
790 3,12| most the Mother of Christ (Christotokos), since she is the mother
791 3,18| believe him not; for false Christs and false prophets shall
792 5,8 | will heal their land” (2 Chron 7:14).~ Further on in sacred
793 7,14| Being outside the historic Church-Orthodoxy, you are left to your own
794 10,10| characterizes Protestantism as “Churchless Christianity.” The same
795 6,8 | was the desire to set all churchmen apart from and above the
796 1,2 | Church begins at Pentecost (circa 33 AD), with the descent
797 9,42| the Canaanites took the circuitous (indirect) route and attempted
798 10,14| Orthodox Church remains circumspect on this matter. Thus, to
799 10,20| Rom 14:8).~ ~As for the citations by the Protestants on passages
800 6,4 | The schism between the two civilizations had thus become firmly fixed.~ ~
801 Fwd,4| now subverted the entire civilized world that was once fully
802 3,5 | the Vatican newspaper La Civilta Cattolica (a Jesuit intellectual
803 10,26| new teaching. Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas Aquinas decisively
804 10,21| sufficient to have the gift of clairvoyance, of which the Lord deemed
805 1,11| time, the cardinals were clamoring for less dictatorship, and
806 7,21| would be the revision and clarification of canon law. In final reply,
807 7,21| unchanging character can be clarified — that is, explained and
808 2,12| convened the Nicene Council to clarify and elaborate the fundamental
809 6,8 | Rome there were only two classes — the upper, privileged
810 Fwd,3| not without significance. Classically, the right is the symbol
811 7,14| rediscovery of the ancient classics. Humanism exalted the human
812 8,14| unusual for an intellect to classify himself as a believer or
813 8,7 | addition of the filioque clause, Rome committed moral fratricide
814 7,14| the degree that a person cleanses himself from the passions,
815 11,1 | unbroken continuum in which any clear-cut break or division is impossible
816 3,5 | issue of which has to be cleared by the Vatican Secretary
817 3,5 | Gregory's letter stands as the clearest possible witness against
818 10,28| By living in holiness, we cleave to God; but by becoming
819 10,23| Theotokos, Mary the wife of Cleopas, who stood with her during
820 6,8 | subordination to laymen if clerics do not become free of their
821 7,14| one is a more capable or clever interpreter of Scriptures
822 9,28| and most notably at the climax of the Eucharis-tic Prayer,
823 10,16| to the bishop, the flock clinging to its shepherd. The bishop
824 Fwd,6| Orthodox Church, before God closes its doors forever in the
825 1,1 | although its contents have been closeted. In another place, the decree
826 9,39| from the dead and become clothed in a spiritual body. Then
827 7,14| indeed just that, a pagan “cloud” which ultimately could
828 9,42| from God, their reason was clouded, and in time they began
829 Ep | people's minds will grow cloudy from carnal passions, and
830 11,3 | masses,” “circus masses,” “clown masses,” and the use of
831 11,3 | of Holy Scripture, their clownish antics and near-blasphemous
832 Fwd,4| communication. It makes for clumsy, cluttered writing that
833 Fwd,4| communication. It makes for clumsy, cluttered writing that draws attention
834 9,35| and space.... Man was the co-creator with God of the cosmos....
835 9,39| other people. This kind of co-suffering love is shown in the words
836 Fwd,1| people were friends and co-workers of the author.~ Still later,
837 9,28| consummation, so the Spirit co-works with the Father in creation
838 10,3 | treasury of evil. This evil coalesces into a huge energy of evil
839 4,12| went down off the southern coast of France in 1870, were
840 9,42| mosquitoes, flies, lice, cockroaches, boll weevils, termites,
841 Fwd,5| For those who have felt coerced into being politically correct
842 1,1 | In spite of all manner of coercion, attacks and opposition,
843 6,18| act of the intimidating coercive tactics that Pope Pius IX
844 9,42| natural enemies once again coexist in harmony.~ In Christian
845 7,14| guaranteeing to deny it doctrinal cohesion. It is therefore condemned
846 7,17| the fact that the texts coincide on all the important points,
847 6,18| homologica). The word homologica, coincidentally, is feminine in Greek, thus
848 7,17| appeared — the Peshitta, which coincides on all important points
849 9,10| St. Clement of Alexandria coined the word in order to express
850 Fwd,6| martyrs, the catacombs and the Coliseum. This view is perfectly
851 7,13| Scripture is the result of a collaboration of a divine-human synergism
852 2,6 | cave's entrance and would collect brush and set it on fire,
853 2,16| Orthodox View, vol. 1 of The Collected Works of Georges Florovsky,
854 7,17| king of Egypt, set about collecting at the capital of his lord
855 1,11| ecumenical consensus or collective conscience, which is best
856 Fwd,5| saints, both individually and collectively. A great many of these are
857 6,7 | the Church so much as a college as it saw it as a monarchy —
858 6,14| unity, order and humble collegiality might be described as the
859 7,14| same ecumenical movement colluded with the same forerunner
860 4,12| man-within-the-Church.” [Icons: Theology in Color, pp. 20-22.] As Dr. Cavarnos
861 4,12| place for glorification in colors, in sacred images.~ The
862 7,9 | traditions, he writes to the Colossians: “See to it that no one
863 4,12| Migne, PG, 1864, vol. 94, cols. 1168-76]. (The word icon
864 11,3 | nationally-known political columnist and author, depicts the
865 3,4 | heresies that both were combating, than it does with any lopsidedness
866 11,4 | service is conducted, which combines Vespers, Matins and the
867 1,1 | ecumenism, rather than combining all the partial truths that
868 11,3 | spectacles ranging from comedy, to one-man shows, mass
869 10,20| wash away the sins of those commemorated here, through the prayers
870 10,26| earth” (Job 14:4); “God commendeth His own love toward us in
871 3,5 | Nicholas de Tudeschis, in Commentaria (lvi, 34).~To make war against
872 7,14| Greek. The Holy Fathers who commented on Scriptures were also
873 11,4 | for the most part one of commerce and entertainment, it is
874 11,3 | females, and every manner of commercial humbug known to Hollywood,
875 11,3 | their crass “P.T. Barnum” commercialism, and their cynical use of
876 10,22| misfortune. It would not be commiseration if they did not come to
877 9,15| under “a harsh necessity” of committing sin, and that “man's nature
878 9,39| but it also involves the commonplace tasks with which St. Herman
879 7,14| Patriarchates of the Christian Commonwealth that had formed the Christian
880 8,4 | essence and the uncreated and communicable energies of God.~ The mystery
881 4,12| venerates icons in order to communicate the reverence, respect and
882 6,8 | was to show in the very communicating the superiority of the clergy
883 11,4 | Holy Gifts are kept for the communing of the ill), the Communion
884 9,42| state of the race of man. Comparative study of these traditions,
885 6,15| Church, the popes succeeded comparatively easily in securing the subordination
886 10,23| and more glorious beyond compare than the Seraphim. “ Are
887 10,20| Protopriest Victor Potapov compares the Orthodox practice of
888 5,4 | government of crucified Russia.~ Comparing the life of hermits to those
889 9,29| conceived as water-tight compartments, but as degrees of participation
890 10,22| come to our aid with the compassionate and heartfelt lifting up
891 10,10| not many; and of all the competing religious bodies calling
892 9,42| gripped all mankind are the compilations made by secular historians (
893 6,15| ecclesiastical juridical acts was compiled in the West at the beginning
894 6,15| Since both the name of the compiler and the contents of the
895 1,1 | appearance. In such a state of complacency, many people will not recognize
896 5,4 | life was not to withdraw complacently unto himself, but to cleanse
897 1,11| Latin Church, the cardinals complained that they were treated not
898 10,6 | Holy Spirit among men are complementary to one another. Because
899 9,35| bring their own will into compliance with God's will.~ Lastly,
900 Fwd,5| When their demands are not complied with, writers' manuscripts
901 3,16| the deification of the compound makeup of man is not possible,
902 2,17| God, and from the complete comprehension of His essence, than it
903 10,10| of the faithful in Christ comprised the subject of Christ's
904 7,11| composition of the books comprising Sacred Scripture was determined
905 7,14| ultimacy of Christ God is compromised: Roman Catholicism restricts
906 4,12| traditional icons inspire compunction and raise people up from
907 Fwd,5| being programmed like a computer into being politically correct.~
908 5,4 | these ascetic recluses concealed themselves in solitude in
909 3,5 | of honor, as he himself concedes later in the same paragraph,
910 6,15| operand of the Roman popes. Conceit, pride, lust for power,
911 8,14| nature. This Western view conceives God not so much in personal
912 2,32| two Ecumenical Councils concentrate?~ The first two Ecumenical
913 2,32| Councils (fourth century) concentrated on Christ's Divinity and
914 3,5 | example, Pope Sixtus V, in concert with the bishops, issued
915 1,11| Exile goes on to explain conciliarism as that special state in
916 4,12| present simultaneously and concisely many things: a place, persons
917 10,14| God can save them.~ In the concluding remarks of his book, Mr.
918 9,15| call desire and the Latins concupiscence. All human beings are subject
919 11,4 | Orthodox Liturgy would have to concur.~ Orthodox worship has an
920 4,12| Ecumenical Council fully concurred. They stated that “by means
921 3,17| 145-64.] Bishop Auxentios concurs, stating that the antithetical
922 9,15| nowhere near as harsh and condemnatory as the Augustinian or Calvinist
923 2,33| deification impossible. Condemning Arianism, the First Ecumenical
924 4,12| and miracles that the Lord condescends to accomplish through them,
925 11,4 | five hours). Later, out of condescension toward the weakness of men,
926 10,28| anger in relation to God is conditional and anthropomorphic, and
927 10,28| the words of Christ only conditionally, as a threat or as a certain
928 Ep | come when absolutes are conditioned by an elite. This grim situation
929 8,14| favor could ever serve to condone them.~ Regarding the theological
930 4,12| proper for us, but it is also conducive to our salvation. The following
931 6,14| Nor could they any longer confer on others that grace of
932 10,16| special ordained ministry conferred through the Mystery of Holy
933 7,11| groups. All the differing confessional groups within Protestantism
934 6,7 | to view Church order in conflicting ways.~ The East had many
935 1,15| future internal and external conflicts.~ It is important to note
936 7,21| the world,” and it never conforms to the world. Instead, the
937 Fwd,6| the deeper questions that confront all people on their journey
938 7,19| addressed St. Gregory Palamas' confrontation with the heretic Barlaam.
939 7,19| Ecumenical Council). In their confrontations with the heretics, the Holy
940 3,2 | with most Western writers, confuses St. Gregory the Theologian
941 8,14| dangerous and heretical in its confusing the Persons and destroying
942 9,35| The New Age movement is a conglomerate of pagan practices with
943 Fwd,1| successors bishops for local congregations (Phil 1:1). To these bishops,
944 11,4 | by the priest and people conjointly. Orthodox Christians come
945 6,16| He explains that:~ ~The connecting of the purifying fire with
946 1,1 | pp. 33-34].~ ~As D.W. O’Conner also writes concerning this
947 7,17| often with a pejorative connotation, and also a complete misnomer
948 10,16| diocese, although not in the connotative sense of being a harsh and
949 3,20| about at that time. After conquering Mecca, Mohammed's followers
950 1,1 | extermination by different conquerors, persecutors and heretical
951 10,23| infer the first degree of consanguinity. As the Semitic language
952 2,33| Divinity and openly and consciously attacks the Holy Trinity.
953 10,16| permission.~ Bishops also consecrate the antimins used on the
954 10,16| needed.~ The bishop also consecrates churches. It is the bishop'
955 7,11| interpret in writing the consecrating invocations or their mystical
956 Fwd,3| Church does not recognize any consecrations or ordinations he performs.
957 7,9 | group fell into extreme conservatism which would allow no changes
958 Fwd,6| Through the mercy of God, many conservative Roman Catholic and Protestant
959 6,6 | the Greeks, there was a considerable language barrier, and both
960 7,14| surprising development, considering the confusion of those times
961 9,15| a place where babies are consigned who died without actual
962 10,25| although for the sake of consistency, he also notes, they would
963 7,11| Apostolic period. In order to be consistent, they ought to discard Holy
964 10,28| each of us a duty and a consolation [Ibid].~ ~B. The Church
965 5,4 | friends and all earthly consolations, they took up the eremitical
966 Fwd,5| Spirit so that women can be consoled with their own divine Person.~
967 5,7 | as a gift from the Lord [Consoler of Suffering Hearts: Eldress
968 10,18| different. The unvarying constancy and the unerring truth of
969 2,10| further consequences of Constantine1s con occurred during his
970 6,15| subject of the Eastern Roman (Constantinopolitan) emperor into an independent
971 5,4 | contemplation, which are the very constituents of the purely monastic life,
972 3,5 | Church. Such was the ancient constitution of the Church. The bishops
973 7,14| it is with us: it is not constraining for us in the Church, but
974 Ep | will meet obstacles and constraints. And all this will result
975 Fwd,4| human beings are free to construct their own faith. (This way
976 Fwd,4| that draws attention to construction and hinders meaning. This
977 6,9 | change the Creed without consulting the rest of the Church,
978 10,28| fire” of hell that will consume those who have rejected
979 9,42| last question concerned the consumption of flesh. Investigation
980 6,3 | Arabs. This development made contacts between the East and West
981 7,11| which is like some foreign contagion introduced into the body
982 4,12| that which we habitually contemplate. True icons focus the distracted,
983 9,22| Great Friday, the Church contemplates the Resurrection of Christ.
984 5,4 | less than the men led the contemplative life. As great ascetics
985 6,8 | Every kind of... disregard, contempt and patronization of one'
986 2,6 | that it would not have to contend with false shepherds or
987 10,12| theory further, ecumenism now contends that there is a variety
988 7,21| Tradition.~ The author's bone of contention is therefore not with the
989 6,7 | he act as an arbiter of contentions between disputing sovereigns,
990 Fwd,5| as such (although in some contexts they can refer to men alone):
991 Fwd,5| grammatically or socially contextualized, it refers to human beings
992 3,18| in the oceans, and on the continental landmasses of this planet.
993 9,42| all over the world, on all continents. In the majority of flood
994 11,1 | is basically an unbroken continuum in which any clear-cut break
995 11,4 | Catholic Mass: Ite, missa est (contio), meaning Go, (the meeting)
996 5,1 | singing of hymns, how trade contracts invoked the Trinity and
997 7,14| equally true, even when they contradict one another.~ The utter
998 10,16| soul. This consciousness contributed to the fact that, already
999 10,27| for the purpose of prayer, contrition and worship before Him.
1000 11,4 | iconography, there is always a contrition-evoking sobriety and spiritual serenity
1001 7,11| with the different human contrivances and creations. Since in
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