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1502 6,9 | ever recognized... [an]... equalization of sees or accepted that
1503 10,10| All of such “uniting” and “equalizing” views indicate a forgetfulness
1504 3,18| capitalism, which he has always equated with materialism. Out of
1505 3,5 | Ecumenical Councils called for an equilibrium found in Canon 34 of the
1506 11,4 | must fall after the vernal equinox, on the first Sunday after
1507 11,4 | the first Sunday after the equinoxal new moon, and always after
1508 2,23| pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work
1509 11,3 | Orthodoxy, is not the least bit equivocal in endorsing the criticism.~
1510 10,10| view on this matter with no equivocation:~ ~[It] must be considered
1511 10,26| rethinking the matter, and eradicating the first falsehood, Rome
1512 Fwd,5| and bent on the complete eradication of Christianity, or adherence
1513 2,1 | Divine Word on which He erected His holy mansion, the Catholic [
1514 3,14| between God and man and erecting within Christ's Person a
1515 5,4 | seeing another human face.~ Eremetical monasticism was established
1516 5,4 | consolations, they took up the eremitical way of life in the wilderness
1517 9,10| is from syn (with) and ergon (work; whence synergic,
1518 10,3 | dimensions. An individual's sins erodes the likeness of God in him
1519 10,15| correction. Even St. Paul erred, but was corrected by St.
1520 Fwd,2| result, Peter turned from his erring ways. Clearly, there is
1521 10,28| understands it in this way, one errs, for Christ does not instill
1522 11,3 | inanities, their lurid sexual escapades, their crass “P.T. Barnum”
1523 Fwd,5| of our country. Few can escape being affected in one way
1524 10,28| to our own death, because eschatology — the study of the last
1525 3,18| come alone as before, but escorted by myriads of angels; and
1526 10,23| Jer 34:9, Deut 23:7 and Esd 5:7).~ Of further note,
1527 9,39| anything extraordinary or esoteric. It involves attendance
1528 11,4 | textbook, and then submit an essay.~ The remainder of this
1529 7,13| Testament Church,” Selected Essays, p. 170].~ ~The textbook
1530 7,14| researches regarding some kind of essences and measure magnitudes.”
1531 11,4 | Catholic Mass: Ite, missa est (contio), meaning Go, (the
1532 4,12| must transcend that of mere esthetics. It must be spiritual.~(
1533 9,19| the human flesh, Christ is eternally-born of the Un-Originate Father.
1534 5,6 | cannot be freed from a barren ethicology. He goes on to note that
1535 10,20| Liturgies of the Armenians, Ethiopians, Syrians, Copts, Jacobites,
1536 3,16| The word Monophysitism is etymologically derived from the Greek words
1537 7,14| indicated by the force and etymology of the name itself, which
1538 1,8 | the Church was primarily a Eucaristic Society — that is, one which
1539 9,28| notably at the climax of the Eucharis-tic Prayer, the Holy Spirit
1540 7,11| against this error in 1756, Eugenics Voulgaris wrote:~ ~The faith
1541 7,11| eighteenth-century theologian Eugenios Voulgaris emphasized this
1542 2,20| pride, which the Westerners euphemistically call justice? [Emphasis
1543 5,8 | matter, the holy martyr Eustratius, who was killed during the
1544 3,15| These two, Dioscorus and Eutyches, created what heresy?~ They
1545 7,14| it did Arius, Nestorius, Eutychius and other heretics slay
1546 11,3 | largely on unhearing ears. St. Evagrios the Solitary, one of the
1547 7,14| educated fundamentalists, evangelicals and charismatics) is “just
1548 7,11| in their oral and written evangelism, guides the Holy Church
1549 11,1 | supernatural impression [Evenly Underhill, as quoted from
1550 7,17| important respects to the ever-changing views of translators, social
1551 9,3 | Spirit, One in Essence, Ever-Existing, Undivided and Indivisible.
1552 7,16| given at Vespers on the eves of many feasts.~·
1553 4,12| and gifted writer, Prince Evgenii Nikolaevich Trubetskoi,
1554 9,35| which brought about his eviction from Paradise and brought
1555 10,28| teach that God tortures evildoers with material fire and physical
1556 5,8 | of the evil we do, such evils as famine, earthquakes,
1557 4,12| holiness, and the pleasure evoked by it must transcend that
1558 4,12| like a meadow, and secretly evokes in my soul the desire to
1559 5,8 | answer, and again asks, as if evoking the guilty one to justify
1560 1,1 | Crusades were undertaken, which evolved into an attack upon the
1561 5,4 | used to do, but live in an exaggerated appreciation for the present.
1562 7,14| and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge
1563 7,14| this is done in the name of exalting their authority.~ ~We must
1564 6,15| pope's hands the Ravenna Exarchate, which had previously belonged
1565 10,28| will fail to perceive His exceeding greatness. The saints taught
1566 10,10| number of Christians that exceeds by several times the number
1567 3,5 | ambitions bishops of Rome raised excessive claims to an absolutism
1568 7,11| between the two or for us to exclude one from the other. Holy
1569 Fwd,5| not used in a sense that excludes women. Both man and human
1570 7,11| of the Orthodox faith and excluding innovations, Neophytos Doukas
1571 10,13| offended by any ecclesiological exclusivity. Mr. Barnes, whose own search
1572 Fwd,3| even less than a layman) executes the laying on of hands upon
1573 1,1 | their souls to Satan, are executing the most intense preparation
1574 11,4 | musical instruments in the execution of ecclesiastical hymns,
1575 11,4 | was used by the Roman executioners in Christ's time in order
1576 1,11| conscience, which is best exemplified by the early general councils.
1577 10,26| human race, was preserved exempt from all stain of original
1578 5,8 | notable one is the influence exerted by Byzantium on the society
1579 8,14| Person, in no way do they exhaust the mystery of each.~ Latin
1580 5,6 | Western monasticism, he notes, exhausts itself in societal work
1581 5,8 | we can feel a certain exhilaration from it, which makes us
1582 5,7 | consisted in edification, exhortation and comfort (1 Cor. 14:3).
1583 10,20| not presuppose that these exhortations related only to the living,
1584 3,5 | into Latin by Dionysius Exiguus in the late fifth century
1585 4,4 | who destroyed icons and exiled, imprisoned and sometimes
1586 9,35| illumined minds, the only exit out of the current global
1587 9,28| creatures (Gen 2:7, 41:38, Exod 28:3, 31:3). It is also
1588 7,9 | may be said that Tradition expands or matures, but only in
1589 5,4 | in solitude in the wide expanse of desolate areas, in mountains
1590 11,4 | an atmosphere of constant expectation of death. Orthodoxy'
1591 11,4 | all our sweetest hopes and expectations, our peace, our joy, together
1592 5,4 | coming to Christianity out of expediency, many Christians in their
1593 1,1 | Hieromonk Sava Yanjic expends further on this end-times
1594 11,4 | one, which is of a more expensive material, usually brocade.
1595 1,10| presume to consider himself an expert on Orthodoxy. All he can
1596 Fwd,5| self-appointed theorists, “experts,” political agitators and
1597 6,16| time as it is necessary to expiate those sins — or else, the
1598 10,28| from shining within us, and expose us to the demons who punish
1599 7,20| Orthodoxy. Fr. Theodore says expressively:~ ~Orthodoxy [views] theology
1600 6,10| of the Universal Church expressly prohibiting any addition
1601 5,5 | Not long before their expulsion, a fire raged out of control
1602 Fwd,5| police might next insist on expunging the word human from the
1603 Ep | merciful long-suffering of God extends and delays the final end
1604 3,20| became almost completely extinct in Anatolia.~ ~
1605 1,1 | last Tsar brought about the extinction of the Age of Constantine
1606 11,3 | fundamentalists, and their extravagances, their limousines and mansions,
1607 3,17| conflict existed between extremists of these two centers, and
1608 9,38| tombs, and in adorning them; f) in the constant rule of
1609 3,5 | knows how profitable this fable of Christ has been to us
1610 6,15| the “age of romance,” when fables and legends were introduced
1611 2,20| heresies and moral depravity, fabricating lies with utter cunning,
1612 6,2 | world's most preeminent and fabulous city. The East during this
1613 1,16| structure of the visible facet of the Church?~ ~312 AD
1614 7,14| outlandish, perverse or factually untrue. As the writer Peter
1615 Fwd,5| fact is discovered by the faddish academic world at large,
1616 5,8 | the prefatory notes, those failures were the result of human
1617 11,1 | men, and their service is fairer than the ceremonies of other
1618 9,15| Protestantism are all in fairly close agreement concerning
1619 8,14| right on [the] filioque.” In fairness, I had to acknowledge that
1620 5,5 | Patriarch because of his faith-compromising ecumenism. In May of that
1621 7,14| Protestants come to understand the fallacies inherent in the Protestant
1622 5,8 | to turn away from their fallenness, to return to their true
1623 7,14| knowing the poverty and fallibility of our minds, we must realize
1624 7,14| the ensuing period of the falsely-called Enlightenment, humanist
1625 6,8 | priest completely free of all familial and civil bonds and obligations
1626 11,4 | Orthodox lay worshiper, through familiarity from earliest childhood,
1627 5,8 | evil we do, such evils as famine, earthquakes, droughts,
1628 6,13| theological issue, but one with far-reaching consequences in other areas
1629 9,26| Egyptian Thebaid to the farthest corners of the Christian
1630 7,14| perpetuated the Renaissance fascination with pagan ideas. Among
1631 10,23| of God's Holy Spirit, God fashioned from her all-pure blood
1632 6,6 | the ancient Councils and fashioning unto itself a new theology
1633 5,4 | or cave, where he prayed, fasted and labored under the guidance
1634 Fwd,6| the Orthodox Church is the fastest growing mainline Church
1635 9,26| Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, vigils, prayer and almsgiving,
1636 4,12| mouths,” “thick arms,” “fat thighs,” and the like. He
1637 7,14| Gospel, have fallen into fatal delusion. The Gospel has
1638 Fwd,5| invoked by such names as “Father-Mother,” in direct contradiction
1639 10,23| her husband, and that he fathered children by her. However,
1640 9,15| nature was overcome by the fault into which it fell, and
1641 10,22| good will. They are God's favorite ones who have gained ready
1642 1,1 | government [monarchy] will be feared. No one will easily follow
1643 10,10| in every nation he that feareth Him... is acceptable with
1644 10,28| those produced by the most fearful tortures. The sorrow which
1645 10,21| confirmed by martyrdom, by fearless confession, by self-sacrificing
1646 11,4 | fans were made of ostrich feathers or leather and were used
1647 5,4 | met its Passion Friday on February 18, 1932, when all of Russian
1648 1,6 | martyrdom in Rome (he was fed to the lions), he wrote
1649 9,39| and his hard labors in feeding and clothing orphans and
1650 9,42| bears and wild animals. He feeds them, and they in turn serve
1651 3,12| was still alive.~ Modern fellow-travelers with Nestorius include some
1652 11,3 | rock music, scantily-clad females, and every manner of commercial
1653 Fwd,5| of the cultural elite and feminists alike is to make people
1654 Fwd,5| Feminism is also promoting a feminization of the Holy Spirit so that
1655 6,16| demonstrated at the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1438-39), they had no interest
1656 1,1 | historian, Professor G. Ferrero of the Roman National University,
1657 1,10| multitude of Churches as its fertility increases.~ ~There are many
1658 10,10| outside the Church a religious fervor and faith, a worthy moral
1659 7,14| themselves with the all-powerful feudal, military aristocracies
1660 9,13| a statement since Mary's fiat stands as the greatest possible
1661 9,42| plant proteins and high fibers (that is, fruits, herbs
1662 9,15| teaching was declared de fide by the Second Council of
1663 6,15| partly falsified, while fifty-eight are altogether spurious.
1664 2,33| wills.~ Arius is called a fighter against God and a ringleader
1665 4,12| accuracy that just as the figure of the precious and life-giving
1666 6,8 | privileged class; the rank and file faithful laymen became the
1667 9,28| every where present and fillest all things, Treasury of
1668 10,1 | the fullness of Him that filleth all in all” (Eph 1:22-23).~ ~
1669 9,28| ministry, the Holy Spirit fills all things with the energies
1670 5,4 | Likewise, the Church historian Filon notes that “already in the
1671 Fwd,4| with images and information filtered by a radically secular media
1672 11,1 | severance from Orthodoxy was finalized, although the date is actually
1673 7,14| movement, ecumenism, is financially backed by those forces bringing
1674 3,18| he was told not to lift a finger to clean out the Latin Church,
1675 7,14| individual's viewpoint, the finite individual ceases to have
1676 1,10| including China, Japan and Finland). In addition to these independent
1677 5,5 | best efforts, monks and firefighters were unable to control it,
1678 11,4 | Canon. This practice was confirmed at the First Ecumenical
1679 11,4 | books we make ourselves firmer in the dogmatic teaching
1680 3,11| of its teaching and its firmness of faith. Although there
1681 9,42| has become like unto the first-created Adam. This phenomenon is
1682 7,14| minister and therefore has firsthand experience with Protestantism'
1683 3,18| event ... an event that will fission human history, splitting
1684 4,12| not flicker. With a low flame, one is not distracted when
1685 10,28| Apostle Paul writes that” “In flaming fire taking vengeance on
1686 6,17| Great Schism would appear flawed to Orthodox theologians
1687 7,17| sacrifice, they brought two fledgling doves. At that time, the
1688 9,42| grains), rather than one of fleshy proteins. Another source
1689 4,12| should burn steadily and not flicker. With a low flame, one is
1690 9,42| and vectors (mosquitoes, flies, lice, cockroaches, boll
1691 11,3 | correctness, egocentric preaching, flippancy, to cultic intensity and
1692 10,23| Mother of God. Also, the flippant irreverence of those who
1693 5,7 | thousands of people who flocked to be guided by these holy
1694 5,8 | and part of Nineveh was flooded by waters from a nearby
1695 Ep | you see wars, earthquakes, floods, disbelief, impiety, lawlessness,
1696 11,3 | disconnected remembrances. They are flotsam and jetsam of the historical
1697 2,6 | Christianity began to flourish once the Church came above
1698 5,7 | The prophetic ministry flourished when the spiritual life
1699 1,1 | the more ancient, the more flourishing part) for the sake of worldly
1700 5,7 | of Kronstadt. Eldership flowered especially at the Optina
1701 1,8 | The Church's lifeblood flows from the Eucharist that
1702 5,8 | is connected with their fluctuating relationship with God. This
1703 6,9 | were the two theological focal points which separated Rome
1704 1,1 | pure, its gaze steadily focused on the end of the ages and
1705 10,1 | sheep who were not of His fold so that there would be one
1706 1,1 | rehashes of the ancient follies).~ As the panheresy of ecumenism
1707 3,8 | Theodore of Mopsuestia, whose follower he was.~ ~
1708 10,22| deal with you after your folly (Job 42:8). Because of the
1709 7,14| that God's ways often seem foolish to the wise of the world.~
1710 11,3 | raise their voices as the fools, and their singing is a
1711 11,4 | Jews. The lower bar, or footboard (supendaneum in Latin),
1712 Fwd,4| reader will observe that footnotes are not always given for
1713 11,4 | Judgment, he tilted the footplate to signify that those on
1714 11,4 | antichrist. Church canons forbid the use of musical instruments
1715 7,21| absolute and unchanging. Canons forbidding the sale of the Church's
1716 7,17| believers think that God forbids icons and that Orthodox
1717 4,12| was expressed particularly forcefully during the epoch of the
1718 11,1 | Knights in 1242 to prevent the forcible conversion of Russians to
1719 5,5 | that year, those monks were forcibly and illegally expelled from
1720 7,14| Church that their Western forebears belonged to prior to 1054,
1721 10,26| having been foreknown and forechosen, she was vouchsaved to be
1722 1,1 | Orthodox Tsar.~ ~It is for the foregoing reasons that the Russian
1723 Fwd,2| first two fingers to the forehead (for the blessing of the
1724 Fwd,5| gender was made by God in foreknowledge of the fall of the primogenitors
1725 10,26| race. For this, having been foreknown and forechosen, she was
1726 4,19| Calvin must count as their forerunners Augustine (thus Plato),
1727 5,5 | those who saw the fire as a forewarning of worse calamities in the
1728 Fwd | Foreword.~
1729 7,14| links in the chain of Truth forged by the Holy Spirit throughout
1730 10,10| equalizing” views indicate a forgetfulness of the principle that there
1731 6,2 | East during this time never forgot the ideals of Rome under
1732 7,20| doctrines, although never formally defined, are still held
1733 Ep | throughout the planet a formidable cry, rising like the howling
1734 7,19| Instead, they attempted to formulate in words the already-existing
1735 3,17| extensively from his writings in formulating their Christological confessions.~ ~
1736 7,20| as binding as an explicit formulation. As St. Basil explains, “
1737 6,15| misunderstandings” because of incomplete formulations.~ In spite of Rome's claim
1738 3,8 | 8.~ Who was the formulator of the heresy which necessitated
1739 5,4 | wrath, revenge, amusements, fornication, drunkenness — to all possible
1740 5,4 | They, out of love for God, forsook the world and all that is
1741 7,17| the Law of Moses, on the fortieth day after the birth of their
1742 11,1 | Russians are allowed once a fortnight to have the Liturgy. A very
1743 6,15| was nothing more than a fortuitous outcome of non-theological
1744 9,38| calamities, and for the fortunate, for it confirms their fortune,
1745 4,12| Tradition to use worldly icons.~ Fortunately, the deviation from iconographic
1746 9,38| fortunate, for it confirms their fortune, and for the ailing, for
1747 5,7 | If a Christian turns to a fortune-teller, he shows himself a traitor
1748 5,7 | forbidden in the Old Testament. Fortune-tellers have the devil and his angels
1749 7,9 | evil practice of telling fortunes on the even of Theophany
1750 | forty
1751 Fwd,6| brethren. The East could claim forty-four Churches of Apostolic origin,
1752 1,11| councils that offered a common forum for both Churches East and
1753 7,14| exalted the human intellect, fostered a critical spirit of inquiry,
1754 10,10| of one grapevine, of one foundation-stone of the Church. Christ likewise
1755 6,1 | hastened by Constantine’s founding a second imperial city in
1756 4,12| notes that these icons are fountains of healing and have cured
1757 7,17| synagogue text, there were only fourteen variations of spelling.
1758 5,4 | the Desert Fathers, of the fourth-century Egyptian Thebaid.~ During
1759 9,3 | of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the
1760 11,4 | being placed in a tomb. A fragment from the relics of a saint (
1761 11,3 | liturgical prayers. They may have fragments — echoes of the historical
1762 7,14| big ship and sit down in a frail boat and want to sail across
1763 4,12| off the southern coast of France in 1870, were discovered.
1764 6,15| personal” concept of sanctity (Francis of Assisi), unacceptable
1765 6,9 | writer notes, the medieval Frankish-Teutonic conception of the pope entails
1766 1,11| Churches bound together in a fraternal unity, she presents herself
1767 9,42| Andree, H. Usener and T.G. Frazer). In these, it is shown
1768 Ep | like to see all religious freedoms removed; and many other
1769 5,8 | fulfillment man could express his freely-willed striving toward God and
1770 6,14| others. These warnings are so frequent that the call for Church
1771 7,14| Michelangelo — for example, his frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. In
1772 7,14| of the most speculative Freudian psychoanalysts, Protestant
1773 9,35| group. The last and most frightening phase of this onslaught
1774 11,3 | theology on the one hand, and frivolous, internalized, “touchy-feely”
1775 10,14| related to-, and separated from-, the Church. Just how and
1776 6,18| Pope and the Council — a frontal attack on papal infallibility.
1777 7,11| for the preservation and fruitfulness of the life of the Church.
1778 10,10| their prayers are totally fruitless if they come from a pure
1779 1,1 | Harvard-educated and twice Fulbright scholar Dr. Constantine
1780 10,14| own way in the Creator and fulfilling His will as best he can,
1781 5,6 | Catholic monastics became functionaries who today, often in street
1782 4,12| Christian period, icons had functioned as palladia — that is, as
1783 9,29| disruption of the whole inner functioning of the soul, she explains.
1784 1,1 | recent growth of Islamic fundamentalism and the September 11, 2001
1785 7,17| the influence of various fundamentalist groups that they came to
1786 11,3 | his monograph “Protestant Fundamentalistic Thought,” Fr. James Thornton,
1787 9,15| hymn sung at the Orthodox funeral service for the laity: “
1788 1,1 | freedom of Eastern Europe, is gaining ever greater attention in
1789 7,17| God, the maiden Mary of Galilee, in God's plan of salvation.
1790 6,15| the African, Spanish and Gallic — which did not form a part
1791 10,20| in the Roman, Spanish and Gallican Liturgies, as well as in
1792 11,3 | that they might make a game out of worship.... Intrinsic
1793 11,1 | mission hall in a mews over a garage, where the Russians are
1794 6,8 | arraying itself in Christian garb only outwardly. In ancient
1795 11,3 | air-conditioned dog houses, their garish style of dress and outlandish
1796 Ep | philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset writes that “before long
1797 10,23| Scripture, which states: “This gate shall be shut, it shall
1798 10,23| often refers to “the closed gateway of the Virgin.” Moreover,
1799 5,8 | decline. As Abba Dorotheos of Gaza (sixth century) states:~ ~
1800 10,21| lawless act of the servant Gehazi was revealed to Elisha (
1801 7,14| In the same vein did Luke Gehring, another convert to Orthodoxy,
1802 Fwd,5| attempts to turn Him into a genderless abstraction: “the Creator,”
1803 7,14| Scriptura is like a faulty gene embedded in the genetic
1804 6,17| event until his task of generalization suffers. That is, he fails
1805 10,23| vanished, wives and mothers of generals have been forgotten. Who
1806 1,11| means “of, relating to, or generated by a council” (American
1807 Fwd,5| Latin humanus, which is generic. (Fr. Patrick notes that
1808 7,14| surround men of artistic genius. In Cellini's boastful autobiography (
1809 7,14| morality does not apply to geniuses like himself, an idea which
1810 7,14| Norman conquest and its mass genocide of the English people in
1811 1,1 | notes, Rome conducted these genocides through the same Unia, the
1812 7,14| demonic pride! Even the genre of biography strengthened
1813 1,13| Christianity's entering into the Gentile world under the veil of
1814 5,4 | bears, and timid birds, were gentle and unafraid in the presence
1815 9,28| joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness,
1816 2,6 | Emperor Constantine was genuinely enlightened from within
1817 7,11| synods the authenticity and genuineness of the holy Orthodox faith
1818 6,6 | cultural, linguistic and geographic diversity does not affect
1819 9,42| Persians, and also more geographically isolated peoples — the Indians
1820 3,18| pope believes that “this geopolitical mission he has chosen to
1821 11,1 | Then we went among the Germans and saw them performing
1822 11,4 | the night in the Garden of Gethsemane. The service summons the
1823 5,8 | living, with no hope of getting out of this state. Death
1824 2,1 | Ecumenical Councils, those giant foundations of the Christian
1825 6,15| the new naturalism in art (Giotto) which destroyed iconography;
1826 10,14| times the world will be girded about with iron and paper.
1827 10,23| Epiphanios answers:~ ~An unknown girl of Nazareth. Who knew her?
1828 9,39| and to take his, I would gladly do it” [Apophthegmata].~ (
1829 6,10| apologists were not without glaring contradictions. The apologists
1830 Fwd,4| When notes were initially gleaned from reading in monasteries
1831 Fwd,6| for it offers an initial glimpse of true historical Christianity
1832 5,7 | Hieromartyr Damascene, Bishop of Glokov, stated:~ ~Perhaps the time
1833 11,4 | rightly dispenseth and glorifieth the great mystery of piety.” [
1834 1,1 | still survives intact and gloriously pure, its gaze steadily
1835 4,19| Moslem/Aristotelian ideas and Gnosticism. Luther and Calvin must
1836 10,28| parable of the sheep and the goats. This parable reminds Christians
1837 6,6 | nation has always been a God-bearing nation, and the faith of
1838 7,14| by comparison. Given the God-inspired teaching of the Holy Fathers,
1839 7,17| St. Simeon, known as the God-Receiver. As he was occupied in translating
1840 5,4 | became the desert where God-seekers could find the solitude
1841 10,25| without a fallen nature, a goddess and a fourth person of the
1842 Fwd,5| is, in its anti-rational, goddess-worship modes, feminism is offering
1843 9,35| ability to tap into this godhood-of-self by means of prescribed and
1844 2,20| His Son, so that a man of Godly dignity could be sacrificed
1845 9,35| an understanding of the “godness” of man's essence and one'
1846 5,7 | philosophers, writers such as Gogol and Dostoyevsky, and ordinary
1847 9,3 | cares only for earthly goods, thinks only about his body
1848 10,23| eternal life. She always gook pains to the end of her
1849 3,18| Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev and the Capitalist West (
1850 5,4 | pleasures of every kind, gorgeously appareled and living delicately (
1851 11,4 | responds to each petition with Gospodi pomilui or Kyrie eleison (
1852 11,4 | elongated naves and chancels of Gothic-style cathedrals and churches,
1853 3,22| worked out the Church's governmental structure. Concerning the
1854 10,10| like a judge, senator or governor. Orthodoxy teaches that
1855 7,11| Founder of the Church, Christ, governs it in an unseen way until
1856 7,17| grace and the labors of grace-bearing individuals. When Christian
1857 Fwd,5| that the Orthodox Church is graced with mystical power that
1858 10,3 | evil which seeks vessels of graceless bodies to put itself into,
1859 10,22| us; and that He, the most gracious, receives their intercessions [
1860 3,12| responses clearly demonstrate a graded scale within the Protestant
1861 2,20| him. Afterwards, by ever graduating degrees, the devil introduces
1862 2,15| land which belonged to the Graeco-Roman civilization.~ ~
1863 9,42| that is, fruits, herbs and grains), rather than one of fleshy
1864 Fwd,5| when the word man is not grammatically or socially contextualized,
1865 9,42| mutations cannot produce grand-scale evolution since these mutations
1866 Fwd,5| somehow been linked to a grandmother, a mother, a sister, a spiritual
1867 1,1 | early Church than their grandparents did.” It also notes that “
1868 10,10| of one Shepherd, of one grapevine, of one foundation-stone
1869 Fwd,1| Vatican Councils, and who are grappling with the problems of papal
1870 7,17| Emmanuel” (Isaiah 7:14). Not grasping the mystery of the Virgin
1871 9,42| that some seeds, fruits and grasses give strength and some do
1872 4,12| spiritual perfection, and feels grateful to the Deity and to holy
1873 6,16| not usually given out ex gratis, but are generally sold
1874 1,1 | Christianity, will wait to greet her Bridegroom [“Ecumenism
1875 10,23| Francisco writes:~ ~The Apostles greeted the Mother of God with great
1876 8,13| the line, and why?~ Both Gregories drew the line and agreed
1877 10,22| with worldly calamities and grief, and they know how necessary
1878 Ep | conditioned by an elite. This grim situation is one manifestation
1879 11,1 | morning was so queer. A very grimy and sordid Presbyterian
1880 7,14| mankind was held fast in the grip of humanism. Even today
1881 9,42| the flood was an even that gripped all mankind are the compilations
1882 9,42| that “the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together
1883 2,20| by presenting them with grossly blatant falsehoods or with
1884 1,1 | simply not completely well grounded in Church history to make
1885 7,17| earthly means, Old Israel guaranteed that integrity and immutability
1886 7,14| perpetually mutate, thus guaranteeing to deny it doctrinal cohesion.
1887 7,11| owe the preservation and guarding of Sacred Tradition, which
1888 5,7 | strugglers for God: “Here he guessed and it came out as he said
1889 1,1 | conduct [Quoted in Abbé Guetée, The Papacy: Its Historic
1890 10,26| did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth” (1 Peter
1891 1,1 | many religions. Under the guise of a “reconciliation” of
1892 11,3 | and the use of drums, guitars and other instruments of
1893 11,3 | Gospel of Christ tell their gulled listeners that they must
1894 Fwd,6| bodies remained incorrupt and gushed myrrh that healed the sick.
1895 11,4 | nor are they built in the gymnasium-style architecture or barn-like
1896 Fwd,5| ho anthropos (Greek), ha'adam (Hebrew), nôshô (Syriac),
1897 7,9 | the meaning of custom or habit, something which is not
1898 9,39| threatened the native Indians' habitat; his painstaking nursing
1899 10,20| receive them into everlasting habitations — that is, might pray for
1900 6,16| and nuns took off their habits and became social workers.
1901 4,12| become like that which we habitually contemplate. True icons
1902 10,14| It is recorded in his hagiography that St. Nektary, one of
1903 2,35| Church. St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite (+1809) gives four distinguishing
1904 Fwd,5| the new world order, or a Hague tribunal.~ The world is
1905 Ep | shamelessness in dress and style of hair. These people will be cruel
1906 2,20| heresy comes from the Greek hairoumai, to choose. A heretic is
1907 11,3 | outlandish and grotesque hairstyles, their crudities and vulgarities,
1908 9,3 | Testament in a veiled way, only half-revealed, beginning, it bears repeating,
1909 1,1 | and persecution could not halt its spread.~ Although the
1910 9,21| Christian writings. (P. Hammond, The Waters of Marah).~
1911 7,11| called dead, which engaged in hand-to-hand combat with idolatry, not
1912 7,14| into whatever shape its handlers wish. It is no honor to
1913 11,4 | depicted, sit atop long wooden handles. In the early Church, these
1914 Ep | prophet, Elder Ignatii of Harbin, Manchuria, “What began
1915 11,4 | stormy seas into a peaceful harbor. In the same way, the Church,
1916 5,8 | completely and irreversibly hardened like the fallen angels.”
1917 Fwd,5| but it has also pushed harder along these lines than any
1918 5,8 | remains — how is it that hardship and defeat so often fall
1919 11,1 | respond to the choir. The harmonies in their singing are beautiful....
1920 1,1 | Church [Ibid., p. 35].~ ~Harvard-educated and twice Fulbright scholar
1921 9,42| strength, produced small harvests, deprived of its strength,
1922 6,1 | This separation was further hastened by Constantine’s founding
1923 7,14| people in the Battle of Hastings (1066), England was brought
1924 1,1 | intense preparation for the hasty reign of the enemy of Christ,
1925 1,1 | that His followers would be hated by the world (cf. Jn 15:
1926 1,1 | of being intolerant and hateful people, opponents of the
1927 Ep | good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasures more
1928 Ep | specter of that cataclysm now haunts the entire world. In the
1929 Ep | who are good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasures
1930 Fwd,6| became miracle-workers and healers, and after their repose,
1931 4,12| the Apostles could restore health to the sick, much more are
1932 7,14| doers of the Word and not hearers only” (James 1:22), and
1933 7,14| wisdom to which they should hearken. For Protestants, their
1934 6,16| old moral restrictions, so heartily proclaimed and enforced
1935 9,3 | demons, for “the gods of the heathens are demons” (Ps 95:5 [Russian
1936 11,1 | divine beauty in worship, its heavenliness, the feeling of the presence
1937 3,18| faithful has always weighed heavily upon Orthodoxy and has left
1938 7,17| these last ten books are of Hebraic origin and were extant only
1939 2,6 | Olives in Bethlehem, and in Hebron at the Oak of Mamre. Later,
1940 11,4 | in prayer and serves as a hedge against temptation. The
1941 10,26| writes: “Brethren, take heed lest there shall be any
1942 5,7 | simplicity, spiritual immaturity, heedlessness and lack of faith. Such
1943 7,14| views (e.g., freemasonry, Hegelianism, Unitarianism, Bahai, Buddhism,
1944 7,13| has shown that she is the heir of the Old Testament Church —
1945 7,17| Ptolemy Philadelphus, the Hellenistic king of Egypt, set about
1946 11,4 | the direction of a good helmsman carries people through stormy
1947 10,23| but also as their heavenly helper, as a protector of Christians
1948 10,22| Jordanville gives the following helpful explanation:~ ~How can we
1949 6,16| he remarked somberly and helplessly.... Nothing he did could
1950 2,20| for men, to the point of helplessness, was that no man, not even
1951 11,4 | Japanese in Tokyo, Finish in Helsinki, and native languages throughout
1952 10,23| century, the false teacher Helvidius (and likewise many others
1953 9,38| healing from touching the hem of the Savior’s garment (
1954 4,12| observations are echoed in Herbert Reed, a famous English aesthetician
1955 11,1 | Likewise, in 1675 Johannes Herbinius wrote that:~ ~The Russians
1956 9,42| fibers (that is, fruits, herbs and grains), rather than
1957 | Hereafter
1958 | Herein
1959 3,12| tongue of this God-fighting heresiarch while he was still alive.~
1960 9,39| commonplace tasks with which St. Herman of Alaska busied himself.
1961 Fwd,5| found answers — who lived heroic lives of courage, wisdom
1962 | hers
1963 9,15| All Orthodox would be very hesitant to think in these terms,
1964 7,14| basic Gospel principles and hesitate to accept Christ's Divinity,
1965 5,5 | and especially during the hesychast controversy of the fourteenth
1966 7,19| definition of faith of the hesychastic councils of the fourteenth
1967 9,39| Not only does it involve hesychasts praying in silence and saints
1968 1,1 | who thought differently (heterodoxountes, or heterodox, in the expression
1969 5,4 | reveals them and they cannot “hide their light under a bushel” (
1970 10,28| like saying that the sun hides itself from the blind [Ibid.,
1971 2,35| the Iconoclast Council of Hieria (754), and Florence (1438-
1972 5,7 | darkness of their despair.~ Hieroconfessor Barnabas (Belyaev), Bishop
1973 10,10| the subject of Christ's High-Priestly prayer before His Crucifixion,
1974 10,10| Episcopal succession” or high-sounding titles.~ ~Therefore, any
1975 Fwd,1| fullness of truth along the highways and byways of Western Christianity,
1976 5,8 | the part that stood upon a hill, was consumed by a fire
1977 1,1 | restraining power which would have hindered the appearance and activities
1978 9,35| mixing of ancient mysteries, Hindu mysticism, humanism, occultism
1979 7,14| affluent West, Buddhism and Hinduism have made massive inroads
1980 Fwd,2| claim to be the true Church hinged upon the matter of its papal
1981 3,5 | explains, in no place is any hint ever given in any canon
1982 11,4 | but they used it in the Hippodrome and the palace, never in
1983 10,14| they did not believe. He hired workers to build the ark,
1984 2,6 | accounts, particularly in the historiographies of the Protestant world.
1985 11,1 | Bulgarian bows, sits down, looks hither and thither like one possessed,
1986 Fwd,5| can refer to men alone): ho anthropos (Greek), ha'adam (
1987 6,18| itself admitted that it was a hoax. (Even so, in spite of that
1988 7,14| the religions. With such a hodgepodge of innovations and syncretism,
1989 10,16| its members, and he is a holder of an office within the
1990 11,4 | it could also be called homelike, for it is a family affair.
1991 11,4 | course adds: “Yet behind this homeliness and informality there lies
1992 Fwd,5| zmogus (Lithuanian), and homo (Latin), along with its
1993 Ep | treasures. Lust, adultery, homosexuality, secret deeds and murder
1994 6,16| wanted to be married ... homosexuals and divorced people who
1995 6,18| Dollinger’s great intellectual honesty, his book was quickly placed
1996 10,20| doing this he acted well and honorably” (2 Mac 12:39-46).~ Christ
1997 3,5 | sufficient to mention Pope Honorius (625-38), who fell into
1998 9,42| English scientist Arthur Hook show, these nations include
1999 11,4 | Church are all our sweetest hopes and expectations, our peace,
2000 9,42| wasps, yellow jackets, hornets, fire ants, etc.), and the
2001 11,3 | they strike trombones, blow horns, use organs, wave their
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