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1002 3,18| While Pope John Paul II was convalescing after the near-fatal attempt
1003 2,15| councils would ordinarily convene in a provincial capital
1004 11,1 | date is used simply for convenience to mark the time when Rome'
1005 6,18| masculine Peter. This fact is conveniently overlooked by Roman apologists.~
1006 Fwd,5| Feminism’s agenda has not only converged with this broader ideological
1007 11,4 | home in church, thoroughly conversant with the audible parts of
1008 Ep | which one man can carry on a conversation with another from one end
1009 11,4 | New Testament absolutely convinces us that the Apostolic Church
1010 7,14| which will be absolutely convincing to the mind and heart of
1011 6,10| had the right not only to convoke general councils, but to
1012 2,12| First Ecumenical Council was convoked against the false teaching
1013 9,5 | through his own endeavors in cooperating with God's grace. Adam started
1014 7,17| When Christian scribes copied verses from Scripture, the
1015 4,19| Byzantine Emperor Constantine Copronymus, to the spiritual ancestor
1016 10,20| Armenians, Ethiopians, Syrians, Copts, Jacobites, and others.
1017 7,17| what is in truth the very core, the heart, of our Christian
1018 3,5 | in Palestine, Tripoli and Corinth. If one were to suppose
1019 10,16| himself in relation to the Corinthian Church (2 Cor 11:2). This
1020 7,17| built-in, living corrective for correcting its entrusted text, something
1021 2,12| Christian world, and Arius, the corrupter of faith. It also anathematized
1022 10,26| Paschasius Radbertus, Abbot of Corvey, expressed the opinion that
1023 9,35| co-creator with God of the cosmos.... The tragedy of the human
1024 1,1 | and protect peace at any cost and simultaneously with
1025 7,14| Religious art was now couched in completely human terms,
1026 9,7 | state: “Let my prayer be counted as incense before Thee” (
1027 4,12| Before a board has the countenance of Christ portrayed on it,
1028 7,14| the late Middle Ages to counter its ruinous consequences.
1029 10,23| Mystery of the Incarnation counterbalanced Eve's unbelief and disobedience
1030 10,25| of Christ with His pagan counterfeits. If Christians can discern
1031 5,4 | where monasteries dot the countryside with noticeable frequency.
1032 7,17| After the passing of a couple of centuries, Hebrew Scriptures
1033 7,14| This new religious view, coupled with the new “church” being
1034 Fwd,5| who lived heroic lives of courage, wisdom and holiness. They
1035 7,17| Demetrios Phalarios, a learned courtier of Ptolemy Philadelphus,
1036 10,23| language lacked a word for cousin, the word achim (brethren)
1037 10,23| from that of siblings to cousins, and also stretching to
1038 1,1 | the members of the evil coven of sadistic clergy assassins
1039 11,4 | Crucifixion, while the Ninth Hour, covering the hours from 3:00 pm to
1040 11,4 | with prayer. The Third Hour covers the time from 9:00 am to
1041 Ep | lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers,
1042 1,1 | their own beliefs [Fr. David Cownie and Presbytera Juliana Cownine,
1043 1,1 | Cownie and Presbytera Juliana Cownine, A Guide to Orthodox Life:
1044 Fwd,6| East, which is the very cradle of Christianity, your search
1045 11,3 | sexual escapades, their crass “P.T. Barnum” commercialism,
1046 9,42| Commentary on Scientific Creationism,” mentions that both science
1047 9,42| substitute for the free creativeness that Adam and Even had in
1048 4,12| along the path of free creativity, independent of the Church
1049 2,12| to be above any kind of creatureliness, above something created.
1050 7,14| which has received lasting credence among Western artists. What
1051 11,3 | old axiom lex orandi, lex credendi (as we worship, so we believe),
1052 7,14| ubique, quod ab omnibus creditum). St. Vincent wrote:~ ~Since
1053 9,3 | every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created
1054 9,3 | the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon
1055 9,42| include those of the Fertile Crescent and adjacent areas — the
1056 11,4 | penitential Canon of St. Andrew of Crete, and also by the penitential
1057 1,11| teaches, why were there no cries of heresy to such statements
1058 2,7 | religious and political criminals in the Roman Empire.~ ~
1059 4,12| English aesthetician and art critic, who wrote: “Byzantine painting
1060 7,14| human intellect, fostered a critical spirit of inquiry, and beginning
1061 7,9 | that we must be prepared to critically examine our traditions (
1062 1,1 | the same black hand, in Croatia, Catholic killer clergy (
1063 11,4 | the church proper, having crossed oneself when approaching
1064 Fwd,2| this ancient tradition of crossing oneself.~
1065 Fwd,6| belong to a Church that crucifies instead of being crucified.
1066 8,14| atop his pastoral staff a crucifix with broken arms. This same
1067 4,12| painter, and oftentimes crudely sensual and sentimental
1068 11,3 | grotesque hairstyles, their crudities and vulgarities, their tawdry
1069 5,4 | and children underwent the cruelest forms of torture imaginable,
1070 5,8 | duplicity, violence and cruelty. It additionally mentions
1071 1,1 | turmoil and corruption. The Crusades were undertaken, which evolved
1072 1,11| sixteenth century in order to crush the influence of cardinals
1073 Fwd,2| given the fact that the crux of Rome's claim to be the
1074 11,4 | The altar table, usually cube-shaped, is in the center of the
1075 9,42| result of “triggers” or “cues” which a “biological Engineer” (
1076 5,5 | into the Aegean Sea and culminates at its tip in a peak 6,670
1077 1,1 | and that it will reach its culmination at the appearance of the
1078 11,3 | preaching, flippancy, to cultic intensity and warmed-over
1079 5,7 | be an unerring “elder.” [“Cults Within and Without,” Orthodox
1080 10,28| Cross! How up to now all his cunningness and malice are defeated
1081 1,11| the other hand, the Roman Curia was created by Pope Sixtus
1082 2,20| that it is God Who needs curing and not man. But this is
1083 Fwd,1| those with more than an idle curiosity, the doctrines of the Western
1084 10,26| battle between these two currents continued on for the course
1085 6,18| Roman Catholic seminary curricula. For this same reason did
1086 4,12| depictions on the walls and curtains of the Old Testament Temple,
1087 10,15| Councils are the infallible custodians and interpreters of divine
1088 7,17| consecrated to God, and it was customary to bring a sacrifice in
1089 11,4 | there are weekly and annual cycles. Concerning the weekly or
1090 5,8 | history — sc., that the cyclical rise and fall of people
1091 11,3 | commercialism, and their cynical use of the simple people
1092 6,16| spirituality that began to be dabbled in at the parochial level.~ ~
1093 8,14| well of the Latin Church's dabbling with diabolical phenomena
1094 5,8 | imprisonment in the infamous Dachau concentration camp during
1095 1,1 | As Schema-Archimandrite Damian of the Ascension Monastery
1096 6,14| it to be among the most damnable of sins. St. John Chrysostom,
1097 11,3 | popularity or celebrity status [Dancing Alone: the Quest for the
1098 7,14| union”] in the writing of Dante and in the artistic creations
1099 11,4 | throughout the Church's calendar year, eight are devoted
1100 7,15| Philip encountered St. Djan Darada, a eunuch of Queen Candice
1101 3,5 | 18:18).~ Had any bishops dared to arrogate to themselves
1102 1,1 | unbridled and performs his dark schemes on a world scale.
1103 9,15| the fall resulted in the darkening of man's mind and the impairing
1104 11,4 | Throughout Orthodoxy's darkest days, during the long domination
1105 10,21| we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face;
1106 9,42| that paleontology is a “data-poor, imagination-rich” field
1107 11,4 | Matins and First Hour), and daytime services (Third and Sixth
1108 11,3 | especially in the massive de-Christianization of the Latin Church's worship
1109 7,11| not at all result in the deadening of the Church. On the contrary,
1110 1,1 | witness of the martyric deaths of millions of Orthodox
1111 11,3 | an analytical look at the debased spectacles now encountered
1112 10,21| since it, in their opinion, debases the worth of the Savior
1113 1,13| goes on to describe the debate of the issue and its final
1114 1,15| What was the major question debated at the first Council of
1115 2,6 | participation in the theological debates and dialogues that helped
1116 6,16| of torment ends, when the debt paid to God's justice is
1117 Fwd,6| noted that “within the last decade, Orthodox Christians in
1118 9,42| itself but was swept along to decay by Adam and Eve. Their sin
1119 7,11| instance, from amidst the decaying ruins of Western Christianity,
1120 10,22| ye may be able after my decease to have these things always
1121 10,26| the devil has managed to deceive many who do not understand
1122 2,20| nurturing the pride which leads deceived people to create their own
1123 6,18| admission, Rome continued deceiving the Western world with the
1124 7,14| interpretation but their own in deciphering the meaning of Scriptures.
1125 5,4 | one whose remains did not decompose after his repose. The metropolitan
1126 4,12| contemporary dress and decor became the norm, while spiritual
1127 11,4 | Ecumenical Council, which decreed that the date of Pascha
1128 5,6 | of primitive monasticism, dedicate themselves entirely to the
1129 11,4 | are celebrated. The Church dedicates every Tuesday to the honor
1130 9,38| relics of holy martyrs at the dedication of altars, or to place holy
1131 7,14| not on rational, abstract deductions. Even as far back as the
1132 10,21| clairvoyance, of which the Lord deemed many of His saints worthy
1133 7,14| that is the offspring of deep-rooted pride, the very antithesis
1134 7,11| ages there is a greater deepening of the dogmas of the faith
1135 2,9 | faith is the victory which defeats the world” (1 Jn 5:4), the
1136 6,17| in causal analysis. This defect no doubt traces to the author'
1137 9,3 | the Ecumenical Councils, defending the Apostolic faith from
1138 9,15| retractions, in which he deferred to the judgment of the Church
1139 6,4 | Empire. The hostility and defiance of the new empire towards
1140 5,2 | Who filled their human deficiencies and led them to the truth.~ ~
1141 7,11| sign of decline, a sign of deficiency in its inner life. Protestants,
1142 1,1 | teachings and those things which defile the faith, nevertheless
1143 4,15| which they regarded as defiled, and they felt that anything
1144 10,26| Scriptures state, “Who is pure of defilement? No one who has lived a
1145 7,11| enactments that have appeared definitively after the Apostles as purely
1146 Fwd,4| resulted in distorting and degrading them. If difficulties are
1147 8,14| a deity became vague and deistic, calling to mind the delta
1148 3,4 | Cappadocian Fathers preserved a delicate balance between the threeness
1149 5,4 | gorgeously appareled and living delicately (Lk 7:25), given over to
1150 5,8 | remained in the paradise of delight where they received all
1151 7,14| that “men, having left off delighting themselves in the Lord (
1152 4,12| painting attracts me, it delights my sight like a meadow,
1153 8,14| deistic, calling to mind the delta or grand architect of freemasonry,
1154 7,14| Scriptures. One must not delude oneself into thinking that
1155 7,14| to proudly remain in our delusions? For this reason all true
1156 11,1 | division is impossible or delusive. In accordance with this
1157 Fwd,6| God through ambition or demanding their “rights.” Instead,
1158 7,17| Greek in the third century. Demetrios Phalarios, a learned courtier
1159 5,8 | domination of death [St. Demetrius of Rostov, The Great Collection
1160 1,1 | self-government (republics, democracies), then the antichrist will
1161 9,14| quotes Revelation 3:20 in demonstrating the Orthodox teaching of
1162 7,11| revelatory character, but demote it to the level of those
1163 7,9 | sure guide to our life, it demotes human tradition. It shows
1164 Fwd,5| Orthodoxy therefore does not denigrate or disparage but exalts
1165 9,35| new religion, their common denominator, is the concept of a higher
1166 1,1 | Him. Digression from God denotes an increase of iniquity.
1167 3,5 | respected historians, roundly denounced the teaching as untenable.
1168 Fwd,6| the greatest population density and its people were better
1169 7,11| teaches us about the threefold denunciation and the renunciations of
1170 11,4 | music that the soul, upon departing this life, will first apprehend
1171 6,16| s justice. Once the soul departs from the body, the ability
1172 Fwd,2| divergences, there were also departures from Apostolic practices
1173 7,14| possibly be?~ As the answer depended upon an individual's particular
1174 7,14| Rationalism, with its dependence on fallen human reason,
1175 7,15| pattern for the spiritual dependency that the Orthodox have on
1176 8,7 | Trinity, and such a concept depersonalizes God's unity.~ Orthodoxy,
1177 7,9 | fate. There were many such deplorable and unlawful traditions
1178 1,1 | which does not let the devil deploy his various means. Limiting
1179 6,7 | the right to appoint and depose kings and emperors. In spite
1180 7,14| life in a state of advanced depression.~ ~But if men like da Vinci
1181 5,4 | of self-renunciation and deprivation, one spent in prayer, fasting,
1182 6,8 | browbeat the laity was in its depriving them of the ability to commune
1183 7,14| As Archpriest Nicholas Deputatov adds in this regard, “The
1184 10,16| Priests act as the bishops' deputies when they celebrate the
1185 Fwd,5| Arabic), chelovyek (Russian), der Mensch (German), de man (
1186 3,5 | Pius XI.~ ~Adding to these deranged blasphemies, two Roman Catholic
1187 6,4 | first by the Franks in a derisive sense and with the idea
1188 Fwd,5| Latin), along with its derivations in Italian, French, Spanish,
1189 8,14| Bertrand Russell, and Rene” Descartes. A very significant part
1190 10,23| Joachim and Anna, and a descendant of the royal line of David,
1191 9,28| tongues of fire, so [He] descends invisibly upon the newly
1192 5,8 | to him such as his crime deserves. Finally, although Cain
1193 10,16| equal. He adds that the most deserving of bishops are called archbishops,
1194 7,7 | narrow sense, Tradition designates only the unwritten divine
1195 10,23| distinct meanings. These designations signify a certain kinship
1196 5,4 | fame spread not because he desired it (for he had purposely
1197 5,4 | solitude in the wide expanse of desolate areas, in mountains and
1198 7,14| that the Fathers did not despise human reason — they had
1199 1,1 | enticements; a kingdom that is despised, persecuted, powerless.”
1200 Ep | without self-control, fierce, despisers of those who are good, traitors,
1201 4,12| afflictions — some from despondency, some from passions, some
1202 2,24| represent the corruptible flesh, destined for decomposition, but transfigured
1203 6,6 | separate political and cultural destinies. These events were similar
1204 6,15| West gradually came to be detached from the rest of the body.
1205 7,20| preferred to dive in! I did not detect the sort of dryness in Orthodox
1206 7,11| with the times, it does not deteriorate from circumstances, it does
1207 1,1 | until divine providence determines the time at which moment
1208 10,10| is far more essential in determining whether one is or is not
1209 1,1 | benevolent Orthodox sovereignty), deterring the lawless reeling and
1210 7,14| less than Western man's dethroning God and placing man at the
1211 10,24| Mother of God can never detract from the worship of God.
1212 8,7 | additional source of the Godhead, detracts from the Father's unique
1213 6,18| Turner of the University of Detroit writes that it is universally
1214 1,1 | In the aftermath of this devastating schism, the West experienced
1215 10,16| unchanged practices as it deviated from both Apostolic teachings
1216 1,1 | or, more precisely, its devil-made religion) is installed as
1217 7,14| own faith. Wherever people devise their religions for themselves,
1218 7,11| down to us by the Fathers, devising nothing outside it” [Ibid].~
1219 4,12| ostentations, worldly and devoid of spirituality. The outstanding
1220 9,42| view that the universe is devolving.~ Dr. Spetner goes on to
1221 5,4 | entangles the soul, in order to devote attention to the “one thing
1222 11,4 | calendar year, eight are devoted to Jesus Christ and four
1223 7,19| Hierotheos of Nafpaktos devotes the entire last chapter
1224 4,12| the sailors in their daily devotions. One authority writes of
1225 3,12| for this blasphemy, worms devoured the tongue of this God-fighting
1226 4,12| expressing their native devoutness and the natural desire to
1227 Fwd,3| Archpriest Seraphim Slobodskoy's diagram above). In making this change,
1228 11,4 | southern door, leads to the Diakonikon, where traditionally the
1229 6,7 | pope, after a prolonged dialectical process in the European
1230 10,20| Chrysostom and St. Gregory the Dialogist. Similar references are
1231 4,12| be kept safe from harm [Diane Le Berrurieur, “Icons from
1232 11,4 | hanging body would prevent the diaphragm from working, and death
1233 6,8 | class of the plebeians. This dichotomy was carried over into Christianized
1234 7,11| as the Divine Legislator dictated them many years ago, so
1235 6,9 | pope became an absolute dictator set up over the Western
1236 6,16| Great Schism. After the dictatorial popes were cut off from
1237 3,5 | these one-man “infallible” dictators over the Church and would-be
1238 6,7 | In spite of St. Jerome's dictum let the lust for Roman power
1239 5,7 | the [true] prophet [The Didache (The Teaching of the Lord
1240 10,26| Jesus Christ our God, Who didst appear on earth without
1241 10,28| quenched, where the worm dieth not, and the fire is not
1242 3,9 | various theological centers differed, but the difference was
1243 4,12| overlooked. The failure to differentiate between these two categories
1244 1,11| Orthodox theology strictly differentiates between the ministry of
1245 9,39| mission at Spruce Island; his digging a trench to contain a wildfire
1246 7,17| preserves the noble language and dignified cadence of the traditional
1247 1,1 | to choose to serve Him. Digression from God denotes an increase
1248 7,14| Finally, one must be diligently engaged in works of mercy
1249 9,42| Andreyev explains that:~ ~Dim traditions about Paradise
1250 7,5 | it free from blemish and diminution, as a royal treasure, and
1251 5,8 | of the true faith.~ Sir Dimitry Obolensky, professor emeritus
1252 6,15| infallible. Bishops and their dioceses are protected from error
1253 5,8 | the reign of the emperors Diocletian and Maximian, spoke the
1254 3,8 | in this false teaching — Diodorus and Theodore of Mopsuestia,
1255 3,15| Nestorius had. These two, Dioscorus and Eutyches, created what
1256 4,12| by taking along a small diptych or triptych icon. When one
1257 Fwd,4| they showed an unadorned directness of presentation, something
1258 7,14| the Bible,” yet each in disagreement with the others as to what
1259 7,14| there will be only quarrels, disagreements and divisions. Writing to
1260 Ep | parents and elders, love will disappear, and Christian pastors,
1261 6,16| to change its own status disappears. At that time, only the
1262 Fwd,6| concerns, you have all been disappointed by humanistic systems and
1263 Fwd,6| Churches can only spread disappointment and despair to all who try
1264 6,10| time, yet the addition was disapproved of by the papacy. Whenever
1265 3,18| pope indicates that the disaster cannot be averted, that
1266 5,8 | they show that national disasters are always brought on by
1267 7,11| consistent, they ought to discard Holy Scripture also as a
1268 2,20| Him. Instead, they have discarded only the Western “God,”
1269 9,15| interpretation of the fall which discards the idea of human freedom.~
1270 9,28| miracles, prophecy, the discerning of spirits, and the gift
1271 7,11| that is, a supernatural disclosure by God to people of otherwise
1272 11,3 | past — but these are mere disconnected remembrances. They are flotsam
1273 6,17| economic reasons for the discontent of the masses, and so forth —
1274 11,3 | and their singing is a discordant wail. They have no idea
1275 10,20| the dead are placed on the discos at the foot of the Lamb,
1276 Fwd,4| places, let the reader not be discouraged, but continue until the
1277 2,22| Scripture, to penetrate with discretion to the nature of Scripture
1278 8,4 | incomprehensible not only to discursive reasoning, but to intuition
1279 8,14| The way that a Westerner discusses religion and most aspects
1280 10,26| Mother of God, and those who disdained her icons, there appeared
1281 6,16| offerings brought the people's disenchantment with the popery. It is said
1282 4,12| world, which lies in evil, disfigured by sin, carrying in itself
1283 Ep | also gives the following disheartening picture, one modern people
1284 Fwd,6| Christians have become totally disillusioned as their Churches have joined
1285 10,22| for us, for they are not disinterested observers of our troubles.
1286 7,17| get rid of the books they disliked, using the pretext provided
1287 7,14| was almost impossible to dislodge him; the most powerful patrons
1288 Fwd,5| present, their work is that of dismantling all underlying foundations
1289 Fwd,5| 5~Lest the reader dismiss the writer as an obscurantist
1290 9,42| fall, however, after Adam disobeyed God's command, this acknowledgement
1291 5,8 | practices, and because of their disobeying the Law and ignoring the
1292 Ep | of lawlessness and other disorders; the growing cold of human
1293 1,1 | never been retracted or disowned by the Latin Church, although
1294 Fwd,5| therefore does not denigrate or disparage but exalts Christian women.
1295 7,21| or he may even entirely dispense from the canon).~ The importance
1296 11,4 | theology from above, rightly dispenseth and glorifieth the great
1297 4,12| icons focus the distracted, dispersed soul of man on spiritual
1298 7,14| the same error — that of displacing Christ with a derivative
1299 5,7 | receive from putting on display the treasure they have obtained.
1300 10,28| pointed out, as is the seeming disproportion between crimes that are
1301 6,7 | arbiter of contentions between disputing sovereigns, but he came
1302 7,9 | Pharisees, because they disregarded the divine Tradition, the
1303 7,11| is superficial because it disregards the fact that Holy Scripture,
1304 7,14| Gregory adds, such is the disrespect that one frequently encounters
1305 Fwd,6| of converts, especially dissatisfied Protestant Christians.”
1306 10,10| accepts His Gospel. The dissemination of such a view is aided
1307 5,7 | Smirnov notes in his doctrinal dissertation The Spiritual Fathers in
1308 7,14| man, while Protestantism dissipates it among all men.~ The striving
1309 5,8 | for salvation. For death dissolves this animal nature of ours
1310 7,15| the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and
1311 11,4 | and because they are a distracting element that takes away
1312 11,4 | public worship helps lessen distraction in prayer and serves as
1313 9,22| the Lord's human agony and distress simply by itself, but rather
1314 5,4 | Christ. He then went to distribute his inheritance among the
1315 7,17| of Churches published and distributed Romanian language Bibles
1316 6,7 | cause of the developing disunity between Rome and the Church.
1317 7,20| Orthodox East preferred to dive in! I did not detect the
1318 Fwd,2| addition to the doctrinal divergences, there were also departures
1319 3,17| figures and their radically divergent statements of Eucharist
1320 11,4 | innumerable images of the most diversified prayers for all occasions
1321 10,6 | his own way. “There are diversities in gifts,” St. Paul states, “
1322 5,4 | comfort and security would divert them from their search for
1323 3,14| to note that this denial divides the Incarnate Christ into
1324 7,21| cooperation with Him, become divinized. Moreover, although the
1325 1,11| century), vis-à-vis Rome's divisive doctrine of papal monarchy.
1326 7,15| Apostle Philip encountered St. Djan Darada, a eunuch of Queen
1327 9,42| fall such that the RNA and DNA of living organisms changed
1328 6,18| editing manuscripts and doctoring the testimony of the Church
1329 6,12| considered the filioque to be doctrinally sound, he did not consider
1330 Fwd,4| oftentimes there was no documentation of sources as would be done
1331 7,14| who have shown themselves “doers of the Word and not hearers
1332 6,15| their authority, if not dogmatically, then at least juridically.
1333 Ep | the howling of innumerable dogs to the stars, asking for
1334 11,3 | raise so many millions of dollars, or else God will strike
1335 11,1 | inspirational factor [Quoted in Olga Dolskaya, “Russian Liturgical Choral
1336 7,11| on the pretext that they don't have great worth, we err
1337 7,14| to do what it has always done-divide, subdivide and divide again [
1338 7,14| s Witnesses who rang his doorbell. He stated:~ ~The Bible
1339 5,8 | and moral decline. As Abba Dorotheos of Gaza (sixth century)
1340 7,14| Rose explains, resemble the dossier of some legal case, and
1341 4,12| Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?” (
1342 5,4 | Europe, where monasteries dot the countryside with noticeable
1343 7,16| The prayer “My soul doth magnify the Lord” (Lk 1:
1344 7,17| word virgin. Likewise, the Douay , translated from the Latin
1345 7,11| excluding innovations, Neophytos Doukas wrote in 1845 that:~ ~The
1346 4,12| employed such forms as the dove (a symbol of the peace of
1347 7,17| they brought two fledgling doves. At that time, the elder
1348 9,39| experience, is also practical, down-to-earth, and even prosaic. Not only
1349 5,4 | lack of seriousness, if not downright mockery. For this reason,
1350 7,14| Martin Luther's lifetime, dozens of differing groups came
1351 10,6 | Christian is to have a life of drab monotony. However, it is
1352 11,4 | in the medieval West — a drama, as it were, enacted by
1353 Ep | Holy Spirit have definitely dried up everywhere, even in the
1354 1,1 | East and West began to drift apart when the bishop of
1355 6,5 | same books, East and West drifted further apart.~ ~
1356 6,2 | East and Latin West were driven further apart, and political
1357 10,3 | malice that provided the last drop of evil necessary for this
1358 6,4 | further accused the East of dropping the word filioque (Latin
1359 5,8 | as famine, earthquakes, droughts, diseases and war. All this
1360 5,4 | burned, crucified, beheaded, drowned, thrown to lions in arenas,
1361 11,4 | life and saves them from drowning in the deep waters of sin,
1362 7,14| and syncretism, ecumenism drowns out all other voices with
1363 11,3 | masses,” and the use of drums, guitars and other instruments
1364 5,4 | amusements, fornication, drunkenness — to all possible vices,
1365 7,20| did not detect the sort of dryness in Orthodox theology that
1366 4,15| Christianity. They were essentially dualists: they wanted a religion
1367 7,11| dogmas of faith are more dubious the newer they are, and
1368 2,20| whether it is by crime or by duel. This was the worldly, passionate
1369 7,14| 1054, the pope financed Duke William of Normandy to invade
1370 10,25| the worship of God, and duleia, hyperdu-leia, and proskynesis,
1371 10,6 | is a life of evil that is dull, not holiness. The saints
1372 3,5 | in the Church, they were duly reproved and rebuked.~ In
1373 2,35| of the Son, His two (dyo, duo) simultaneous natures, was
1374 5,8 | well known weaknesses — the duplicity, violence and cruelty. It
1375 6,15| is it the longest one in duration; it differs only in its
1376 9,42| offspring of Cain, indicating a dying out of Cain's descendants
1377 2,35| nature of the Son, His two (dyo, duo) simultaneous natures,
1378 2,35| doctrinal truth proclaiming the dyophysite nature of the Son, His two (
1379 10,22| lived on earth, the saints earned for themselves God's eternal
1380 9,14| God's grace, he thereby earns merit. God's gifts are always
1381 Fwd,3| preserve His treasure in earthen vessels. The archbishop
1382 2,17| our complex and lowly and earthly-sinking composition [Second Theological
1383 5,8 | result, there was a great earthquake, and part of Nineveh was
1384 11,4 | unconscious and unstudied ease in the action of the rite,
1385 9,38| great happiness, sensing an easing of your conscience.... This
1386 2,6 | moved the seat of the empire eastward from Italy to the shores
1387 9,42| why He allows meat to be eaten, in accordance with the
1388 11,4 | by the hyper-devout and ecclesiastically minded in the West [Austin
1389 10,13| for people offended by any ecclesiological exclusivity. Mr. Barnes,
1390 4,12| Whelton's observations are echoed in Herbert Reed, a famous
1391 7,14| hierarchy of absolutes — was eclipsed. This was a radical departure
1392 6,17| is obvious that it is not economics that is the governing factor,
1393 11,4 | part by the repetition of ectenias (litanies), which appear
1394 1,18| had not yet reached the ecumene but was essentially Palestinian (
1395 1,1 | two thousand years on the edge of eternity. It has been
1396 11,1 | the Greeks led us to the edifices where they worship their
1397 Fwd,5| manuscripts are either rejected or edited, and some professors have
1398 6,18| the Latin Church resort to editing manuscripts and doctoring
1399 7,14| from art and science to educational theory. As the same Fr.
1400 Fwd,5| pseudo-intellectual babble coming from educators, media personalities, judges
1401 10,22| God says concerning the effectiveness of the saints' prayers for
1402 10,20| Orthodox believe in the efficacious power of prayer for the
1403 7,14| on to call it a spiritual egalitarian-ism that is the offspring of
1404 11,3 | political correctness, egocentric preaching, flippancy, to
1405 6,18| document is not without egregious blunders. For example, Constantine
1406 9,42| Chinese, the Indians, the Egyptians, the ancient Greeks, the
1407 5,7 | first part of his life (from eighteen to thirty-five) living as
1408 8,7 | with its single voice the eighth article of the Creed, which
1409 4,12| from the wreckage were over eighty small metal icons used by
1410 7,17| that, for example, in the eighty-fifth Apostolic Canon, the three
1411 1,1 | Catholic and Protestant worlds, eighty-five percent of Orthodox Christians
1412 1,10| al.).~ The word Church is ekklesia in Greek, which means to
1413 6,16| opinion on the afterlife was elaborated and developed in detail
1414 5,7 | Consoler of Suffering Hearts: Eldress Rachel, Visionary of Russia,
1415 10,10| citizen or to vote in American elections — this is true even if he
1416 11,4 | Gospodi pomilui or Kyrie eleison (Lord, have mercy, in Old
1417 7,9 | deceit, according to the elemental spirits of the universe,
1418 6,16| considers it improper to elevate any speculative theological
1419 10,10| Provider and Savior, has an elevating power among Protestants
1420 1,10| ancient Patriarchates, to the eleven other autocephalous Churches (
1421 9,42| comes into being [Cf. Mircea Eliade, A History of Religious
1422 5,4 | Subsequently the prophets, from Elijah to John the Baptist, set
1423 2,19| the tyranny of death, He eliminated it completely from our nature
1424 10,21| servant Gehazi was revealed to Elisha (4 Kings, ch. 4, 2 Kings
1425 9,3 | note that the name of God (Elohim in the Hebrew text) has
1426 11,4 | churches do not have the elongated naves and chancels of Gothic-style
1427 5,4 | the inspiration of others, eloquently presenting him as a model
1428 3,11| promoted the fullness of the elucidation and incarnation in life
1429 1,1 | ecumenism is upheld and is emanating from many of “those who
1430 6,6 | barrier, and both nations embarked upon completely separate
1431 7,17| the Lord and so were an embarrassment to those who refused to
1432 1,16| inscription in this sign conquer emblazoned in the sky. With this vision,
1433 9,24| it sees the Cross as an emblem of that victory. St. John
1434 11,3 | Protestant Churches. Having embraced Orthodoxy, Mr. Schaeffer
1435 Fwd,4| shortcoming could not be emended as the writer no longer
1436 1,2 | the angels, there is the emergence of the first Church, for
1437 5,8 | Dimitry Obolensky, professor emeritus of Russian and Balkan history
1438 11,4 | typical Russian parish of the emigration would ordinarily last about
1439 7,17| thou shalt call his name Emmanuel” (Isaiah 7:14). Not grasping
1440 11,3 | entertained, accommodated, and emoted over? In the incessantly
1441 3,5 | center of power, which it employs only in the service of its
1442 9,28| living Word and also to empower the Holy Apostles with the
1443 6,13| only competent institution empowered with such authority was
1444 11,4 | temples of modernism and emptiness that have come to dominate
1445 4,12| arouse in him the desire to emulate those who have achieved
1446 9,42| built into organisms to enable them to adapt to their environment [
1447 9,28| Spirit illumines reason, enables political order, and restrains
1448 Fwd,6| the final times. As the Encyclopedia Britannica Yearbook reports,
1449 3,16| personality. This way of thinking endangered the fullness of Christ's
1450 | ending
1451 5,4 | persecution of Christians, endless numbers of men, women and
1452 6,10| Carolingian requests for an endorsement of the filioque were made,
1453 7,17| Fr. James wholeheartedly endorses the Third Millennium Bible.
1454 11,3 | the least bit equivocal in endorsing the criticism.~ Western
1455 5,8 | Orthodoxy continued to endure martyrdom and persecution
1456 5,6 | specifically blesses those who engage in ascetic labor, saying
1457 1,1 | papacy's most effective siege engine, which operates as the janissaries
1458 9,42| cues” which a “biological Engineer” (that is, God) built into
1459 Fwd,5| example of this linguistic engineering is a new Methodist service
1460 7,17| are really “linguistic engineers” who aim at moving our culture
1461 11,1 | letter written in 1935 by an Englishwoman, wherein she states:~ ~The
1462 3,5 | that the intact Symbol be engraved on tablets and set up in
1463 4,12| function of icons is that they enhance the beauty of a church,
1464 1,10| whole, in which each bishop enjoys full possession. So the
1465 7,17| newborn Lord a light to enlighten the Gentiles, that is, all
1466 1,16| Vladimir, St. Nina, who was the Enlightener of Georgia, and others.~ ~
1467 4,17| God-Man Christ lives, acts, enlivens and makes them all eternal
1468 10,28| heart: He will not make enquiry” (Ps 9:34). Fr. Michael
1469 1,1 | that Christians will be enraptured from the earth and caught
1470 7,14| throughout the centuries and enriched in the saving enclosure
1471 9,21| Christianity. Her Liturgy still enshrines that element of sheer joy
1472 7,14| pp. 13-14].~ ~During the ensuing period of the falsely-called
1473 6,16| against error and heresy, thus ensuring that it would fall into
1474 5,4 | them, but leaves them long entangled in the nets in the peace
1475 5,4 | withdrew from the world which entangles the soul, in order to devote
1476 11,3 | it not they who must be entertained, accommodated, and emoted
1477 11,3 | are well documented.~ ~So entertainment-oriented, even trivial, has the majority
1478 11,3 | internalized, “touchy-feely” entertainments on the other.~ ~The Fathers
1479 5,5 | number of whom attended his enthronement as Ecumenical Patriarch
1480 2,20| with just enough truth to entice them to follow him. Afterwards,
1481 11,2 | the example of Vladimir's entourage by coming to see the Liturgy,
1482 10,22| Himself commanded a king to entreat the righteous Abraham to
1483 5,8 | get further and further entrenched in love of himself, seeking
1484 3,11| contained the cause of its entry onto the path of heresy
1485 9,7 | that the grace of God might envelop the faithful, even as the
1486 9,7 | as the smoke of incense envelops the Church.~ The practice
1487 5,8 | enticements of the devil, who envied the honor in which man was
1488 5,4 | over to pride, ambition, envy, hatred, avarice, irritability,
1489 1,10| bishop and his diocese (eparchy) can be said to contain
1490 7,11| we told the words of the epiclesis (invocation) of the Holy
1491 9,39| stricken with a smallpox epidemic; his teaching the locals
1492 8,2 | As Vladimir Lossky writes epigrammatically of this struggle, “Between
1493 Ep | Epilogue.~Although it is not for
1494 10,23| sucked” (Lk 11:27).~ Elder Epiphanies Theodoropoulos (+1989) gives
1495 10,23| the Theotokos, then? Fr. Epiphanios answers:~ ~An unknown girl
1496 11,3 | like the Lutherans and Episcopalians (and tragically, many Americanized
1497 1,1 | was seen as an episcopus episcoporum, a “bishop of bishops.”
1498 1,1 | and none was seen as an episcopus episcoporum, a “bishop of
1499 5,7 | was with the forefathers [Episkopi-Ispovedniki, San Francisco, 1971, p.
1500 10,16| flock entrusted to him. Episkopos in Greek means overseer,
1501 7,14| of the “True Church” such epithets as “medievalism,” narrow-mindedness,
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