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2002 1,1 | expectation of violence, horrendous torture and death (things
2003 11,3 | and author, depicts the horrid state of affairs to which
2004 10,3 | reported. Concerning this horrific tragedy, Dr. Andreyev writes:~ ~
2005 11,3 | with... “the people.” A horrified Catholic priest, Fr. James
2006 10,16| bishops is particularly horrifying when they deviate from the
2007 7,17| metaphor, psychological Trojan horses fabricated for planting
2008 5,6 | monasteries function as hospitals which cure people and lead
2009 6,4 | so-called Holy Roman Empire. The hostility and defiance of the new
2010 Ep | formidable cry, rising like the howling of innumerable dogs to the
2011 1,1 | Christian Church. As Thomas Hulbert, a Dutch convert to Orthodoxy
2012 4,13| holy icons, or who seek to humanize or Westernize them, have
2013 2,20| to the pagan process of humanizing God and deifying man. Men
2014 Fwd,4| sense of mankind, meaning humankind, men and women.~
2015 10,28| from the first when He “humbled Himself, and became obedient
2016 11,3 | every manner of commercial humbug known to Hollywood, is all
2017 7,14| Him. ~· One must hunger and thirst after righteousness.~·
2018 6,18| himself the conqueror of the Huns fifty years prior to their
2019 6,8 | Bohemian religious reformer Jan Hus attacked the corruption
2020 5,4 | separately from the others in a hut or cave, where he prayed,
2021 3,14| were united in One Person (hy-postatic union), and that the Mother
2022 11,4 | also the accompaniment of hymnody with instruments, as incompatible
2023 7,11| a distinguished Anglican hymnologist. He made the following observations:~ ~
2024 11,4 | extent only shared by the hyper-devout and ecclesiastically minded
2025 10,25| worship of God, and duleia, hyperdu-leia, and proskynesis, which
2026 11,3 | to one-man shows, mass hysteria, political correctness,
2027 1,1 | the Arian controversy, the Iconoclastic struggle, the Moslem yoke
2028 4,4 | sometimes even killed the Iconodules, ultimately their viewpoint
2029 7,20| a part of Tradition, an iconographer is not free to adapt or
2030 7,20| Church. Most importantly, iconographers must be sincere Christians
2031 7,14| It was a very optimistic, idealized concept of man. What man
2032 8,14| this way of thinking in his identification of the Persons with the
2033 5,8 | falling into the error of identifying the earthly kingdom with
2034 10,6 | maintains his own personal identity in the same way that the
2035 Fwd,5| politically correct by their ideologically charged environment, understand
2036 7,17| obnoxious to the rationalists, ideologues and non-believers responsible
2037 10,16| Apostles were always citing the ides of the divine institution
2038 6,18| decree stressed quocumque idiomate — “in whatever language”
2039 Fwd,1| those with more than an idle curiosity, the doctrines
2040 7,9 | brother who is living in idleness and not in accord with the
2041 9,42| Mountain, p. 124].~ ~Any such idyllic realm as Peaceable Kingdom
2042 6,9 | document titled Dominus Iesus was published on September
2043 10,6 | of Christ in 1054).~ St. Ignatius1 idea is in keeping with
2044 6,18| supremacy) was Johan Josef Ignaz von Dollinger, Germany's
2045 7,14| to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their
2046 7,14| Paul.” Such an assertion ignores the fact that St. Paul was “
2047 11,4 | another silk cloth called the iliton.~ Behind the altar table
2048 5,5 | monks were forcibly and illegally expelled from Mount Athos.~
2049 1,1 | will then become a religio illicita, even as it was in the days
2050 5,4 | life of St. Anthony, the illiterate cave-dwelling monk and the
2051 7,14| one another.~ The utter illogicality and falsehood of this conclusion
2052 7,14| raised up by God as brilliant illuminators who interpreted the mysteries
2053 5,4 | him to serve as a lamp to illumine all.~ Following St. Anthony'
2054 9,28| noted that the Holy Spirit illumines reason, enables political
2055 4,12| It cannot and should not illustrate anything that is of this
2056 3,5 | dogma in 1870, the most illustrious and best-educated bishops
2057 2,6 | on. Instead, He used the imagery of a mustard seed that begins
2058 5,4 | cruelest forms of torture imaginable, being lacerated, burned,
2059 4,12| worship of demons (or else imaginary beings that have no existence),
2060 9,42| paleontology is a “data-poor, imagination-rich” field in which there are
2061 7,14| powers but, “casting down imaginations, and every high thing that
2062 6,17| manifestation. He usually imagines that it took root in the
2063 10,26| her she had been conceived immaculately, without original sin. A
2064 10,26| there any word about the immaculateness of Mary's conception. Also
2065 8,4 | transcendence and His divine immanence. Actually there is no inconsistency,
2066 8,14| in thinkers so diverse as Immanuel Kant, Bertrand Russell,
2067 5,7 | their simplicity, spiritual immaturity, heedlessness and lack of
2068 9,12| work that God does is of immeasurably greater importance than
2069 4,17| this development, it is an immensely important one in the history
2070 1,1 | of its own will shall be immersed in evil, not seeking communion
2071 10,28| Christ's Second Coming was imminent. Two millennia have since
2072 7,11| Cavarnos explains that the immobility of death did not accompany
2073 6,15| remains ever the same — immovable, unshakable and eternal —
2074 7,11| any body with a healthy immune system would react, to ward
2075 1,1 | deny that the Church has “immunity from civil law or its penalties” (#
2076 2,20| revelation of the Church and impair the teaching of the New
2077 3,19| heresy, like Monophysitism, impaired the fullness of Christ's
2078 9,15| darkening of man's mind and the impairing of his willpower so that
2079 1,1 | women and children — were impaled on thousands of stakes planted
2080 4,10| transfiguration, and they impart to the world the mysteries
2081 2,36| of nagging criticism with impartial apologetics; slander with
2082 1,1 | allow him to appear; it impedes his negating spiritual activity.
2083 Fwd,5| old principle of divide et impera (divide and rule). By promoting
2084 3,5 | King of the Universe, and Imperator Totius Mundi (Emperor of
2085 9,42| Adam. Like Adam, they were impervious to the elements, and also
2086 7,14| Scripture only, gave a strong impetus toward the invention of
2087 1,1 | significant. Whereas Communism impinged only upon the periphery
2088 6,17| history.~ This way of thinking impinges upon the textbook's analysis
2089 7,14| such a teaching were even implicit, then the Holy Fathers would
2090 1,11| first having prayed and implored the grace of the Holy Spirit.
2091 10,3 | alone, Khomiakov is not implying that a person's sin does
2092 10,11| without — that is, from the imposition of authority from a supreme
2093 9,15| justificatio secunda, and the impossibility of man's actions being pleasing
2094 5,7 | grown cold and spiritual impoverishment prevails, the grace of eldership
2095 Fwd,6| more sensitive, keen and impressionable nature, gifted with more
2096 5,8 | answer from his place of imprisonment in the infamous Dachau concentration
2097 7,14| martyrdoms, mockings and imprisonments for the faith? Is Christianity
2098 7,14| a system intended to “improve” upon the theology of revelation.
2099 7,14| pride. It can in no way be improved upon by the daring hand
2100 10,21| of sins and for our moral improvement, and that help will be given
2101 6,16| However, where there is no impulse to sin and no effort in
2102 10,26| effort on Mary's part and no impulses to sin, and she remained
2103 7,14| blind audacity, with an impure mind and heart to the Gospel,
2104 Fwd,2| example, according to an in-depth survey by the National Catholic
2105 8,4 | without taking away from the inaccessibility of God. Thus, people can
2106 7,14| human reasoning. Aquinas inadvertently opened the door to the error
2107 7,11| appears the irrevocable and inalterable content of Holy Tradition.
2108 11,3 | antics and near-blasphemous inanities, their lurid sexual escapades,
2109 8,14| the Church. Because of the inattention to-, and lack of understanding
2110 Fwd,1| Religions, New York: Time, Inc., 1963, p. 266]. The author
2111 2,17| language to demonstrate the incapability of the mind to understand
2112 Fwd,2| faith and morals, he is incapable of speaking falsehood. However,
2113 10,3 | it finds them, it will be incarnated in them and they will do
2114 Fwd,5| should be examined.~ At its inception, feminism (then called women'
2115 11,3 | and emoted over? In the incessantly repeated phrase the people
2116 4,12| spiritual beauty. Icons incite the beholder “to see more
2117 7,19| ecumenical authority and inclusion in the Synodikon of Orthodoxy?~
2118 2,17| and His limitlessness and incomprehensibility are all that can be understood
2119 7,11| conceptions that contain inconsistencies amongst themselves or contradictions
2120 11,4 | these latter two shapes are inconvenient for the inner arrangement
2121 4,14| that:~ ~Of old, God the incorporeal and uncircumscribed was
2122 10,14| observation that the textbook incorrectly uses the word Church in
2123 10,28| this power! But still he is incorrigible, he constantly opposes;
2124 9,38| bodies of some saints remain incorruptible for many years. This incorruption
2125 1,10| Churches as its fertility increases.~ ~There are many episcopi
2126 2,6 | a power that, because of increasing strength and numbers in
2127 10,14| infinite knowledge of our incredibly complex nature and His providential
2128 6,15| the pope in the Church was inculcated in them simultaneously with
2129 1,1 | thousand is used in place of an indefinite number, signifying the long
2130 7,14| each separate individual independently of the Church. Every individual
2131 5,7 | combined with a feeling of indescribable peace in the soul.~ Well-known
2132 9,3 | the image of God in him is indestructible. As the Fathers state, the
2133 6,18| was quickly placed on the Index of Forbidden books. Also,
2134 5,4 | Syria, Greece, Ethiopia and India, and to Italy, Gaul, Ireland,
2135 7,14| and properly catholic, as indicated by the force and etymology
2136 9,42| to the offspring of Cain, indicating a dying out of Cain's descendants
2137 10,26| who could not remain an indifferent spectator to the glory of
2138 1,1 | Orthodox Christianity is indigenous to all the West, as well
2139 2,33| unconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably; the difference
2140 Fwd,5| first necessary step in indoctrinating them for the anti-Christian “
2141 2,20| with utter cunning, almost indomitable, psychology. The devil has
2142 10,6 | personal. Also, the mutual indwelling of the Father, Son and Holy
2143 7,14| enlightened from on high, an ineffably noble treasure. Recognizing
2144 6,15| error and heresy, and it ineluctably fell into heresy itself.
2145 7,14| believe in the inspiration or inerrancy of the Scriptures. They
2146 1,1 | of Satan and perceive the inescapable destruction with him of
2147 6,15| Spirit. Heresy and error are inevitable for such a bishop.~ Further
2148 1,1 | was a kingdom of sin, he inevitably sensed a destructive force
2149 11,4 | morality! In this area we find inexhaustible examples from the lives
2150 6,16| ominous had been moving inexorably towards them, was already
2151 3,16| union to be mystical and inexplicable.” [Orthodox Dogmatic Theology,
2152 9,15| I am the image of Thine inexpressible glory, even though I bear
2153 10,27| which is depicted as an infant in His hands in icons of
2154 9,15| theology, limbo, from limbus infantum or puerum, is a place where
2155 Fwd,6| joined the latest whims and infatuations of the surrounding culture
2156 10,26| of a woman, He might be infected with the ancestral sin.
2157 6,17| the Eastern Church from infection by the bacterium of Latin
2158 10,23| Lord does not necessarily infer the first degree of consanguinity.
2159 11,4 | periphery of the church for the infirm and aged. A Greek hierarch
2160 5,8 | to ravage the earth and inflict suffering on our fellow
2161 7,11| representatives of this movement inflicted incredible damage on Christian
2162 11,4 | a fresh and graphic way inform us about the great truth
2163 7,14| reasonably intelligent and informed. Such an assumption has
2164 9,9 | doctrine of grace which infringes upon man's freedom.~ ~
2165 6,17| secular history that is infused with a divine witness, but
2166 9,42| peoples who had come to inhabit the earth — the sons of
2167 5,4 | as monasteries, and their inhabitants came to be called monks,
2168 10,6 | Spirit is analogous to the co inherence of the members of the Church.
2169 3,4 | Such a contrast is not inherently mistaken, as long as it
2170 1,2 | Him to assist every man in inheriting salvation (Heb 1:14).~ Thus
2171 7,17| varied places and within inimically opposed circles, Scriptures
2172 6,16| cleansed or purged of their iniquities by virtue of many years
2173 7,14| and they obeyed the divine injunction: “Be ye holy, as I am holy.”
2174 9,42| living organisms underwent injurious changes as a consequence
2175 9,42| suffering from disease and injury, and finally they encountered
2176 Fwd,4| has dealt some very real injustices to women, and also because
2177 7,17| for planting within the innermost recesses of unsuspecting
2178 7,20| is not free to adapt or innovate as he pleases, but paints
2179 7,14| of the Apostles. Let us inquire of the Church, and not fall
2180 10,14| spiritual children then inquired: “But what about the millions
2181 10,14| Recluse once made to an inquirer who asked about the possibility
2182 Fwd,6| newcomers. Many of these inquirers are ministers or better-informed
2183 11,1 | faith, they did not make inquiries into moral rules or demand
2184 4,10| Christians to take any outsider inquiring about the faith into a church
2185 Fwd,5| order that is undeniably insane and bent on the complete
2186 6,12| Creed without the filioque inscribed on two silver plaques-one
2187 9,42| mutations that brought about insect pests and vectors (mosquitoes,
2188 11,4 | leather and were used to keep insects away from the Holy Gifts.
2189 3,5 | oneself. In this manner, a man insensibly equates himself with the
2190 3,5 | III not only refused to insert the filioque, the addition “
2191 8,6 | and thought.” The filioque insertion did in fact have a disastrous
2192 1,1 | former Jesuit priest and insider at the Vatican, Malachi
2193 4,12| the subjects, giving an insipid quality to the art. Commenting
2194 Fwd,5| thought police might next insist on expunging the word human
2195 9,15| As St. Paul repeatedly insists, we are all members of one
2196 10,20| Jews, Judas Maccabeus, an inspection of those who had been killed
2197 11,1 | early Church was such an inspirational factor [Quoted in Olga Dolskaya, “
2198 7,21| discern their spiritual instability, distinguish good from evil,
2199 10,26| Virgin Mary in the first instant of her conception, by the
2200 1,1 | him the Old Testament and instilled in him a hatred of Christianity —
2201 1,1 | and everywhere nations institute self-government (republics,
2202 10,16| where, not only was there an institutional ministry bestowed directly
2203 4,12| transformation and regeneration “by instructing us, reminding us, and stirring
2204 Ep | children for parents; the insubordination to authority and a massive
2205 10,23| with complete clarity the insubstantiality of the objections to the
2206 9,42| all the powers of the soul integrate. He is in the image and
2207 7,14| and using man as the only integration point, it undertook to create
2208 4,17| origin, the Church did not intend to imply that all of the
2209 11,3 | preaching, flippancy, to cultic intensity and warmed-over popular
2210 7,17| a period of fasting and intensive prayer for the nation, and
2211 5,8 | giving this command, God's intention was to teach man submission
2212 3,5 | was regarded as primus inter pares (the first among equals)
2213 6,6 | Russia was cut off from close interaction with the Greeks, there was
2214 5,1 | marketplaces and in their business interactions.~ The example of the circus
2215 10,20| same thing.~ The Church intercedes for the dead in its prayers,
2216 10,22| gracious, receives their intercessions [A Ray of Light: Instructions
2217 10,22| contemporaries and friends, and as intercessors before the throne of God.~
2218 11,4 | occasionally uses the word Mass interchangeably with Liturgy when referring
2219 9,28| sanctification, they are very much interconnected. As St. Athanasius taught
2220 7,14| sharing, salvation, dialogues, interfaith prayers, ecumenical services,
2221 1,1 | that the Russian monarchy interfered with his attempts to possess
2222 9,42| through this practice of intermarriage and were destroyed, save
2223 6,16| Church went on to add an intermediate place or state for those
2224 11,3 | one hand, and frivolous, internalized, “touchy-feely” entertainments
2225 11,4 | Greek and Latin, the third international language of Europe, and
2226 7,14| a more capable or clever interpreter of Scriptures than the Fathers.~
2227 Fwd,1| just as it has been without interruption for two thousand years.
2228 7,11| in Christ throughout this interval? No Church offered so many
2229 2,19| abasement, God the Son directly intervened in human history by becoming
2230 9,42| the biblical account is interwoven with fiction by pagan peoples.
2231 2,24| states that “the icon is intimately connected with the renewal,
2232 Fwd,5| of these lines have felt intimidated by the cultural tyranny,
2233 6,18| one additional act of the intimidating coercive tactics that Pope
2234 1,1 | same way, Orthodoxy abhors intolerance, condemnation, and the dismissal
2235 3,18| aggressive politics, its “lies, intrigue, deception, fanaticism and
2236 9,23| and to defend us from the intrigues of the prince of darkness —
2237 6,4 | regard Charlemagne as an intruder and the pope's coronation
2238 8,4 | discursive reasoning, but to intuition as well. God is absolutely
2239 7,14| Schaeffer points out that intuitive feelings and subjective
2240 7,14| Duke William of Normandy to invade and subdue England, As a
2241 6,2 | empire from the barbarian invaders, yet in spite of his bold
2242 Fwd,4| English edition of this invaluable book notes, this work has
2243 6,7 | submission was to become an invariable feature governing its relations
2244 6,7 | created by the barbarian invasion of the West, the pope came
2245 9,35| are presented in totally inverted manner against a backdrop
2246 6,15| keep its flock from ever investigating Christ's true Church and
2247 9,42| science must therefore leave inviolate this problem. He who acknowledges
2248 9,38| words St. John Chrysostom invited all to approach the relics
2249 7,11| writing the consecrating invocations or their mystical meaning,
2250 10,10| the Body of Christ, they invoke the nebulous notion of an “
2251 10,16| into apostasy with their involvement with the end-times phenomenon
2252 10,10| that the Church is not only inwardly, but outwardly. Outwardly
2253 7,11| Orthodox theologians. As Basil Ioannidis, former professor at the
2254 5,7 | Anthony, Isaaki, Makari, Ioasaph, Anatoli, Ilarion, Barsanuphius,
2255 4,5 | the Church?~ The Empress Irene suspended the persecution.~ ~
2256 9,21| orient et en Occident,” from Irenikon, vol. 26).~ ~
2257 7,14| it, and as a result, he ironically laid the groundwork for
2258 10,6 | Church has never involved the ironing out of human variety. Life
2259 9,42| the divine grace even to irrational creatures. Now the animals
2260 6,18| author made a number of irrefutable observations from history,
2261 3,5 | Sacraments will be valid but irregular.~ Rome's newly invented
2262 4,12| clergy, to whom it proved an irresistible chance of a lifetime to
2263 10,23| God. Also, the flippant irreverence of those who attack her
2264 5,8 | contrary grow completely and irreversibly hardened like the fallen
2265 1,1 | him shall also be decided, irrevocably and forever. Blessed are
2266 5,4 | envy, hatred, avarice, irritability, wrath, revenge, amusements,
2267 Fwd,3| way. The author feels no irritation at all against non-Orthodox
2268 9,28| Job 33:4); He redeems (Isa 44:3,23); and He offers
2269 5,7 | Ambrosi, Leo, Moses, Anthony, Isaaki, Makari, Ioasaph, Anatoli,
2270 4,12| Byzantine Emperor Leo the Isaurian's issuing an edict in 726
2271 3,5 | the fall of Adam, of Judas Iscariot, and that of the pope. The
2272 6,15| Spanish sacred minister, Isidore. Since both the name of
2273 9,39| build the mission at Spruce Island; his digging a trench to
2274 5,8 | not know one God, as the Israelite people did; and that it
2275 7,17| Israel.” There are two Israels, Fr. Seraphim writes: the
2276 8,7 | Council, by prohibiting the issuance of any new Creeds, decisively
2277 4,12| Emperor Leo the Isaurian's issuing an edict in 726 that condemned
2278 2,23| noted in the textbook, the italicized words in the following passage
2279 11,4 | the Roman Catholic Mass: Ite, missa est (contio), meaning
2280 5,7 | gives him this ability. As Iulia De Beausobre goes on to
2281 9,15| of Man's Righteousness, IV-9]. This pessimistic view
2282 9,39| in one of the novels of J.D. Salinger, it has the
2283 9,42| locusts, wasps, yellow jackets, hornets, fire ants, etc.),
2284 10,20| Ethiopians, Syrians, Copts, Jacobites, and others. There is not
2285 6,8 | Bohemian religious reformer Jan Hus attacked the corruption
2286 7,11| 1884 letter to the French Jansenist Pierre Leclerc, Voulgaris
2287 11,4 | country: Arabic in Damascus, Japanese in Tokyo, Finish in Helsinki,
2288 3,5 | St. Peter himself! Amidst jeers, Bishop Strossmayer continued:~ ~
2289 1,1 | makes sorrowful reading: the Jesuits began by using deceit and
2290 11,3 | mansions, their private jets, their air-conditioned dog
2291 11,3 | remembrances. They are flotsam and jetsam of the historical faith,
2292 Fwd,6| the Apostles as a precious jewel — all these things make
2293 10,23| the daughter of the aged Joachim and Anna, and a descendant
2294 Fwd,1| centuries ago by someone named Joe Smith? For those with more
2295 9,28| poured out on all flesh” (Joel 2:28, Acts 1:14). With His
2296 6,18| of papal supremacy) was Johan Josef Ignaz von Dollinger,
2297 11,1 | 271].~ ~Likewise, in 1675 Johannes Herbinius wrote that:~ ~
2298 3,18| herald of Christ at the Jordan, so the pope will be the
2299 Ep | the secular philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset writes that “
2300 6,18| papal supremacy) was Johan Josef Ignaz von Dollinger, Germany'
2301 7,17| Maccabees and the book of Joshua the son of Sirach are numbered
2302 11,1 | vassals that:~ ~When we journeyed among the Bulgarians, we
2303 4,12| custom to take icons on journeys. Recently the remains of
2304 9,22| outside observer that the joyful spirit of the Resurrection
2305 1,11| represented the highest judicial body of the Church, that
2306 1,1 | David Cownie and Presbytera Juliana Cownine, A Guide to Orthodox
2307 7,11| Roman Catholic theologian Julius Tyciak adds:~ ~For the Eastern
2308 6,9 | primacy is beyond question. On June 9, 2000, the pope approved
2309 6,15| dogmatically, then at least juridically. For this, a collection
2310 1,1 | which seeks the rights and justifications of these weaknesses and
2311 2,20| whole effort is towards justifying themselves, appeasing God,
2312 5,5 | peninsula in northern Greece, it juts into the Aegean Sea and
2313 7,14| things, Protopresbyter Paul Kalinovich adds that European Protestantism,
2314 8,14| thinkers so diverse as Immanuel Kant, Bertrand Russell, and Rene”
2315 11,4 | century, to Saints Nicholas Kassatkin and Innocent of Alaska in
2316 9,42| famous French anthropologist Katrefage gets to the truth of the
2317 Fwd,6| granted a more sensitive, keen and impressionable nature,
2318 7,11| has remained a faithful keeper of Tradition and has preserved
2319 11,1 | Bulgarians who were Moslems, the Khazars who professed Judaism, the
2320 2,20| of salvation? Did not God kill God in order to satisfy
2321 2,6 | set it on fire, thereby killing those inside.~ In addition
2322 2,20| schizoid notion of a God Who kills God in order to satisfy
2323 11,3 | sanctuaries surrounded by kindergarten looking felt banners. The
2324 4,12| icons than we do from the kindest and most benevolent living
2325 5,7 | confusion, and capable of kindling the light of hope in the
2326 10,6 | prophetic, priestly and kingly power.... The Church and
2327 1,1 | Christian emperor, as true kingship depends upon the true faith.
2328 11,4 | prostrations twice before kissing the icon and lighting a
2329 11,4 | prostrations (falling to the knees and bending the head almost
2330 7,17| pious elder picked up a knife and was preparing to scrape
2331 11,1 | in 1240 and the Teutonic Knights in 1242 to prevent the forcible
2332 9,14| I stand at the door and knock: if anyone hears My voice
2333 9,14| textbook explains:~ ~God knocks, but waits for man to open
2334 10,23| Paradise. Mary loosened the knot which Eve had bound, and
2335 10,14| heretics — that is, those who knowingly pervert the truth.... They
2336 11,4 | expressed in the hymn (or kontakion) which is sung on the day
2337 10,26| the Greek writer Photios Kontoglu described the matter, “The
2338 10,14| mystical path, will not [Ivan Kontzevitch, Elder Nektary of Optina,
2339 7,11| In 1820, Adamantios Koraes observed:~ ~[Our] religion,
2340 1,1 | transmitted straight into the Koran.~ It is the duty of Islam
2341 Fwd,6| is accomplished.~Steven Kovacevich~September 1, 2002~ ~ ~
2342 11,4 | with Gospodi pomilui or Kyrie eleison (Lord, have mercy,
2343 2,20| devil is deadly. As Fr. Kyril Zaits explains in this connection,
2344 3,5 | needed, the Vatican newspaper La Civilta Cattolica (a Jesuit
2345 10,23| the brother of his uncle Laban. In many other places, the
2346 3,17| it appears incorrect to label them as two different schools.
2347 2,20| begins with a shred of truth, labels it “Christian,” and then,
2348 5,4 | where he prayed, fasted and labored under the guidance of a
2349 5,4 | torture imaginable, being lacerated, burned, crucified, beheaded,
2350 10,16| the Lord Himself: Feed My lambs, feed My sheep (the words
2351 11,3 | priest, Fr. James Wathen, laments:~ ~Of its very nature, the “
2352 9,26| that the oil needed for the lamps is the grace of the Holy
2353 3,18| and on the continental landmasses of this planet. It will
2354 5,6 | against himself, and against languor and the passions. This struggle
2355 2,5 | one can cite any number of large-scale martyrdoms throughout Church
2356 7,14| instead! As Archpriest George Larin notes, since Luther's time,
2357 11,4 | hour meant a watch that lasted three of our hours, and
2358 11,4 | on his feast day, and it lasts about five hours). Later,
2359 4,3 | all images as a form of latent idolatry.~ ~
2360 Fwd,6| Churches have joined the latest whims and infatuations of
2361 2,33| he stepped into a public latrine, and there he died when
2362 11,4 | of the world — parties, laughter, disorderly shouting, and
2363 6,16| priests and bishops and [laypeople] who claimed his approval
2364 4,12| kept safe from harm [Diane Le Berrurieur, “Icons from
2365 10,14| the Heterodox Be Saved?” (Leaflet #213 published by the St.
2366 7,11| Protestants. They strive to lean only on Sacred Scripture,
2367 10,23| babe in his mother's womb, leaped at the mere sound of the
2368 5,5 | new “springtime,” or a new lease on life, because of the
2369 11,4 | made of ostrich feathers or leather and were used to keep insects
2370 5,7 | foretell.~ Archpriest Sergei Lebedev speaks of the ability of
2371 7,11| French Jansenist Pierre Leclerc, Voulgaris spoke about the
2372 Fwd,5| is the Inclusive Language Lectionary of the Bible that was produced
2373 4,12| Greek monk remarked in a lecture that Satan, realizing that
2374 9,42| a biophysicist, one Dr. Lee Spetner. This scientist'
2375 7,21| ideology, is an unhealthy legalism which constitutes Pharisaical
2376 2,6 | inside.~ In addition to legalizing Christianity, Constantine
2377 6,15| romance,” when fables and legends were introduced into Christian
2378 2,9 | act?~ The emperor enacted legislation that made Christianity the
2379 7,11| them.... Just as the Divine Legislator dictated them many years
2380 7,9 | Thus, Sacred Scripture legitimatizes Sacred Tradition and gives
2381 9,38| holy relics (in Greek, ta leipsana, in Latin, reliquiae, both
2382 10,23| millions of lips in all the lengths and widths of the earth,
2383 10,26| 59-60].~ ~St. John quotes lengthy refutations of the ideas
2384 7,14| meaningful philosophy of life. In Leonardo da Vinci we discover that
2385 9,39| possible for me to find a leper and to give him my body
2386 7,14| definition by St. Vincent of Lerins in the fifth century, when
2387 11,4 | in public worship helps lessen distraction in prayer and
2388 7,16| Old Testament lessons. Usually three in number,
2389 2,20| man, then disbelief is the lethal weapon of the devil. He
2390 5,8 | meddling with man's freedom. He lets man make a mess of things
2391 4,12| between unclean and clean (cf. Lev 10:10). The person who cannot
2392 1,1 | from Jerusalem, through the Levant and the Roman Empire and
2393 1,1 | apostasy is spreading on all levels. Everything possible is
2394 10,16| high priest, priests, and Levites, the Apostles also instituted
2395 7,18| individual bishops are always liable to error. However, if the
2396 6,6 | usually successful) wars to liberate the Orthodox Balkans from
2397 11,3 | very nature, the “new Mass” liberates the “children of God” that
2398 Fwd,5| feminism (then called women's liberation) claimed to have as its
2399 6,16| but as the Revolutionary Liberator. This meant that the old
2400 Fwd,4| in monasteries and parish libraries around the country, it was
2401 7,17| their extant books to the library in Alexandria, and to send
2402 9,42| vectors (mosquitoes, flies, lice, cockroaches, boll weevils,
2403 Ep | of such great crimes and licentiousness, people will be deprived
2404 2,7 | Constantine and his fellow emperor Licinius in 313 AD, officially proclaimed
2405 11,4 | southern Russia, he placed a life-size three-bar Cross at his side.
2406 1,8 | Church life. The Church's lifeblood flows from the Eucharist
2407 4,12| entailed the worship of lifeless objects themselves (wood,
2408 5,4 | such a state, they became lifelong martyrs in spiritual warfare
2409 1,1 | and the whole Christian lifestyle with its elevated ideals
2410 10,22| compassionate and heartfelt lifting up of those prayers to the
2411 7,17| of all people; a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory
2412 Ep | holy refuges in search of lightening of their spiritual sufferings,
2413 11,4 | before kissing the icon and lighting a candle near it, after
2414 9,42| and Eve's fall?~ In all likelihood it is, given the fact that
2415 7,14| fulfill ye my joy, that ye be likeminded” (Phil 2:2). And in many
2416 1,1 | life. Fr. Sava goes on to liken today's ecumenism to a Pandora'
2417 2,6 | towards a theology of his liking. His participation grew
2418 7,14| prevented from going out on a limb of one's own creation.~
2419 10,17| 17.~ What limitation of the bishop's authority
2420 1,1 | deploy his various means. Limiting the power of the devil so
2421 2,17| incomprehensible, and His limitlessness and incomprehensibility
2422 11,3 | their extravagances, their limousines and mansions, their private
2423 5,8 | Altschul, An Unbroken Circle: Linking Ancient African Christianity
2424 7,14| Holy Fathers are golden links in the chain of Truth forged
2425 1,1 | when such control will be liquidated, anarchy will triumph, and
2426 11,3 | Christ tell their gulled listeners that they must raise so
2427 9,28| Ultimately, a complete listing of the gifts of the Holy
2428 11,4 | people. The people acquired literacy through the efforts of the
2429 11,4 | of the ninth century as a literary language by two missionary
2430 6,4 | into the cultural realm: literati in Charlemagne's court sought
2431 Fwd,5| de man (Dutch), zmogus (Lithuanian), and homo (Latin), along
2432 11,4 | of the Practical Study of Liturgics,” Orthodox Life, vol. 45,
2433 3,5 | Church, he can continue to liturgise and ordain others (although
2434 10,20| faith is completed by a lively expectation of the resurrection
2435 1,11| founded a new Church in some locale, would ordain a bishop for
2436 1,8 | something that can happen only locally in each individual community
2437 9,39| epidemic; his teaching the locals the arts of agriculture,
2438 11,4 | is variously called), is located. Upon this altar table,
2439 9,42| boll weevils, termites, locusts, wasps, yellow jackets,
2440 2,20| lose their significance and logic in this schizoid notion
2441 2,19| 16), He is the Almighty Logos of the Father, and He is
2442 6,15| the Germanic tribe of the Lombards the lands conquered by them
2443 6,15| earliest times. A particularly long-lived separation began in the
2444 5,8 | direct consequence of their long-standing idolatry and pursing heathen
2445 6,15| earliest schism, nor is it the longest one in duration; it differs
2446 Fwd,6| beauty of its services, the longevity of its Tradition, its being
2447 4,12| their prototypes, and to a longing after them. And to these
2448 9,28| Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
2449 3,13| that Mary bore not a man loosely united to God, but a single
2450 5,4 | world singly, and then in loosely-knit groups. In this way, monasticism
2451 10,23| disobedience in Paradise. Mary loosened the knot which Eve had bound,
2452 10,10| They help to restrain moral looseness, vices and crimes; and they
2453 4,12| silver away. This systematic looting was undertaken by the Latin
2454 3,4 | combating, than it does with any lopsidedness in their respective theologies.
2455 6,8 | given by Professor A.P. Lopukin of the St. Petersburg Theological
2456 4,12| Ananias, upon seeing the Lord-Healer, tried several times to
2457 6,14| schism, division, strive and lording it over others. These warnings
2458 Fwd,3| Apostles to reign or exercise lordship over the flock like the
2459 5,8 | over a man's soul, often loses in this very victory, for
2460 10,16| prayer and the drawing of lots. The Apostles themselves
2461 1,2 | born, all the angels in a loud voice sang in praise of
2462 1,1 | bothered by an obscure but loudmouthed Augustinian monk called
2463 9,16| interprets this word as God's loving-kindness towards mankind.~ ~
2464 7,9 | variously uppercases and lowercases the first letter of the
2465 2,17| lifted above our complex and lowly and earthly-sinking composition [
2466 7,3 | determination to remain loyal to the past, and its sense
2467 7,11| Fathers have emphasized this loyalty to Tradition, as have Orthodox
2468 9,35| humanism, occultism and Luciferism. The main concept of the
2469 5,8 | pure by not allowing for lukewarmness of faith. In such a state,
2470 10,16| bishops were the greatest luminaries of the Church.~ Writing
2471 10,27| the veneration of their lungs or pancreas — something
2472 5,4 | alike — fearing that the lure of comfort and security
2473 11,3 | near-blasphemous inanities, their lurid sexual escapades, their
2474 9,28| with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit,
2475 3,5 | Tudeschis, in Commentaria (lvi, 34).~To make war against
2476 7,17| substituting in its place al 'ma (young woman) in all Hebrew
2477 7,17| Canon, the three books of Maccabees and the book of Joshua the
2478 11,4 | Carpatho-Russia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Moldavia still employ
2479 1,1 | then the Arians, then the Macedonians, then the Monophysites,
2480 7,14| man was no more than a machine, a collection of molecules —
2481 9,42| develop. Trades appeared, and machinery began its development, along
2482 2,20| Kalomiros writes.~ Fr. George Macris explains that in Orthodox
2483 4,12| can be seen in a Western madonna, where the Mother of God
2484 4,12| Not only should Raphael's madonnas not be found in Orthodox
2485 1,16| in various places: Mary Magdalene, the first woman martyr
2486 9,35| manner against a backdrop of magic, the supernatural and the
2487 11,4 | and has stood alone in its magnificence.~From the first century
2488 7,14| of essences and measure magnitudes.” Such a pursuit is foreign
2489 7,17| the Mother of God, the maiden Mary of Galilee, in God'
2490 10,28| thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to
2491 Fwd,6| Church is the fastest growing mainline Church in North America [
2492 2,14| What were the Councils mainly concerned with safeguarding?~
2493 5,7 | Moses, Anthony, Isaaki, Makari, Ioasaph, Anatoli, Ilarion,
2494 Fwd,6| exists in the subjective, make-it-up-as-you-go-along denominations that are forever
2495 9,14| have any claims upon his Maker. But man, while he cannot
2496 10,26| there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through philosophy
2497 3,16| deification of the compound makeup of man is not possible,
2498 9,29| learn to see his internal malady, which is specifically the
2499 10,25| words of the Catholic Bishop Malou of Broughes: “In three respects —
2500 4,12| the world, and in serving mammon rather than God, would accuse
2501 2,6 | in Hebron at the Oak of Mamre. Later, in the sixth century,
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