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2502 3,5 | pope (whom he calls the man-god and idol of Western humanism),
2503 4,12| prototype of the future man-within-the-Church.” [Icons: Theology in Color,
2504 Ep | Elder Ignatii of Harbin, Manchuria, “What began in Russia will
2505 7,14| ancestors and fathers have manifestly proclaimed as inviolable. [
2506 Ep | begun through technological manipulation. The door is already open
2507 2,1 | which He erected His holy mansion, the Catholic [i.e., Universal]
2508 9,29| traditionalism, the editor Mary Mansur explains that man became
2509 7,17| Christians, but reveal a genuine, many-faceted, established truth.~ After
2510 9,21| Hammond, The Waters of Marah).~ The theme of the Resurrection
2511 4,12| sponsored robbery, the Latin marauders placed prostitutes upon
2512 11,4 | iconostasis, a solid wooden or marble screen supporting panel
2513 5,8 | p. 329]. Rassaphore Nun Maria goes on to add that “God
2514 10,16| presented in the image of the marital bond (Eph 5, Rev 21). Likewise,
2515 5,1 | disputes of the day in the marketplaces and in their business interactions.~
2516 2,35| gives four distinguishing marks of an Ecumenical Council.
2517 5,6 | did not bless the activist Martha, who was “burdened about
2518 7,14| Commenting on this situation, the martyr-archbishop writes:~ ~[Protestantism]
2519 1,1 | did there before he was martyred. Certainly he was not the
2520 10,21| are to be found in the martyrologies from the epoch of persecution
2521 11,1 | the Divine Liturgy, they marvel and are moved to tears,
2522 6,16| naturalism, humanism, Marxism, liberalism, modernism,
2523 1,1 | Franciscans) and killer police massacred 750,000 Orthodox for their
2524 9,42| also like him, they were masters and stewards of creation.
2525 3,5 | Christ gives to St. Peter the mastery over the Apostles, his fellow-workers....
2526 10,16| special rite that the Apostle Matthias was joined to the rank of
2527 4,12| always struck us as a more mature religious art form.” [Two
2528 7,9 | that Tradition expands or matures, but only in the sense that
2529 5,8 | emperors Diocletian and Maximian, spoke the following words
2530 4,12| delights my sight like a meadow, and secretly evokes in
2531 10,23| that evening during their meal, telling them that Christ
2532 7,14| ultimately could never support a meaningful philosophy of life. In Leonardo
2533 3,20| that time. After conquering Mecca, Mohammed's followers subjugated
2534 1,1 | Communist leaders continue to meddle in Church affairs by appointing
2535 5,8 | accomplishes this return without meddling with man's freedom. He lets
2536 10,21| to God than we, that they mediate for us before the one Mediator,
2537 9,29| activities — these energies are mediated to mankind.~ In Orthodox
2538 7,14| Church” such epithets as “medievalism,” narrow-mindedness, fanaticism,
2539 3,5 | stated that “when the pope meditates, it is God Who thinks in
2540 11,4 | that takes away from the meditative atmosphere created by traditional
2541 6,3 | During the rise of Islam, the Mediterranean Sea, from the Pyrenees and
2542 4,18| also stated that the two mediums accompany one another and
2543 9,42| the wild beasts became meek and obedient as they were
2544 9,23| passions. For this reason we meekly confess our spiritual weakness
2545 9,28| gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such
2546 7,11| none, but form a harmonious melody in the Church as from many
2547 9,42| nature.... When my ever memorable gerondas [elder] was saying
2548 9,42| God was still in people's memories. Adam was granted a long
2549 10,21| glorifies and lists in the Menologia. This glorification, which
2550 Fwd,5| chelovyek (Russian), der Mensch (German), de man (Dutch),
2551 5,7 | eldresses, and even the mentally unstable. However, as Professor
2552 11,1 | worship. Western European merchants, for example, when traveling
2553 10,10| are not deprived of God's mercies. They help to restrain moral
2554 Ep | piety and grace.... The merciful long-suffering of God extends
2555 8,14| distinct, but are rather merged and confused. Orthodox theology
2556 6,16| supererogatory merits (thesarus meritorium), which is at the complete
2557 Ep | abound, and their astonishing messages clearly show that we are
2558 11,1 | Apostles,” he stated to the messengers of the pope. “The tradition
2559 9,28| that in the time of the Messiah-King, the Spirit of God would
2560 Ep | love, false prophets, false messiahs and deceivers, then consider
2561 9,39| possible the redemption and metamorphosis of all creation — not only
2562 2,22| meaning; 2) allegorical or metaphorical, which is superior to the
2563 8,14| existence must be proved by metaphysical arguments. The medieval
2564 Fwd,5| linguistic engineering is a new Methodist service book in which God
2565 7,14| However, through this new methodology, the Scholastics created
2566 10,16| metropolitans (after the Greek word metropolis, a large city). Also, bishops
2567 11,1 | Presbyterian mission hall in a mews over a garage, where the
2568 9,42| and Chinese, and even the Mexicans. Also testifying to a widespread
2569 9,42| Australia and America (in Mexico, Paraguay, and others).
2570 7,14| What man ever looked like Michael-angelo's David? This was not the
2571 7,14| the artistic creations of Michelangelo — for example, his frescoes
2572 11,3 | forward to be “healed,” hidden microphones, satanic rock music, scantily-clad
2573 7,9 | reforms introduced in the mid-seventeenth century. This group fell
2574 4,12| the whole of creation” [Migne, PG, 1864, vol. 94, cols.
2575 3,18| Between Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev and the Capitalist
2576 7,14| the all-powerful feudal, military aristocracies of Europe.
2577 | million
2578 1,1 | clergy, but the model for the minaret (the towers on top of which
2579 11,4 | hyper-devout and ecclesiastically minded in the West [Austin Oakley,
2580 3,5 | If more examples of this mindlessness are needed, the Vatican
2581 7,17| according to Thy word: for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation,
2582 9,22| overlooks Christ's humanity or minimizes the importance of the Cross.
2583 1,1 | Orthodoxy condemns him and his minions and the poison they spread.
2584 1,1 | as a religion of a small minority existing in a predominantly
2585 11,4 | would result in a matter of minutes. Sacred Tradition teaches
2586 6,17| details of the historical minutiae of the event until his task
2587 11,4 | Holy Orthodoxy, the great miracle-worker St. John of Kronstadt writes:~ ~
2588 Fwd,6| noetic prayer and became miracle-workers and healers, and after their
2589 9,42| world comes into being [Cf. Mircea Eliade, A History of Religious
2590 7,21| modernist/ecumenist element. Mired in religious relativism
2591 9,42| parasite causing sickness and misery to humans and animals. Was
2592 10,22| commiserate with us in our misfortune. It would not be commiseration
2593 3,5 | warning that he should not misinterpret or overstate the primacy
2594 1,1 | This false teaching, a misinterpretation of 1 Thes 4:17, claims that
2595 1,1 | Some modern sectarians have misinterpreted the Evangelist John's words.
2596 3,5 | his appalling and clearly misleading statement that the “Orthodox
2597 7,17| connotation, and also a complete misnomer as there is nothing hidden
2598 10,14| this regard can easily be misread in support of the non-Orthodox
2599 11,4 | Roman Catholic Mass: Ite, missa est (contio), meaning Go, (
2600 Fwd,4| practical approach that is missing in many works of contemporary
2601 Fwd,6| women have been greatly mistreated in this sinful world, this
2602 9,7 | of censing is sometimes misunderstood by those outside the Church.
2603 9,42| poisonous spiders, ticks, mites, chiggers and scorpions?~
2604 9,15| which is still accepted in a mitigated form by the Roman Church)
2605 7,14| and came to feel free to mix the divinely revealed truths
2606 10,16| therefore began to bless a mixture of oil and spices, or chrism,
2607 2,36| roused against itself the mobilization of all the forces of hades.
2608 7,14| although it will particularly mock Christianity. Of that new
2609 10,23| abandon its blasphemous and mocking teaching on the Mother of
2610 7,14| tortures and martyrdoms, mockings and imprisonments for the
2611 8,14| Sabellius abolished the personal mode of existence of each Person
2612 Ep | manifestation of the barbarism of modernity, but there are others: the
2613 Ep | when women are lacking in modesty [Paternal Counsels, vol.
2614 6,15| aspirations, and in the modi operand of the Roman popes.
2615 11,4 | missionaries, underwent extensive modification among the Slavs throughout
2616 9,42| mythical story of Pandora is a modified account of the Old Testament
2617 10,14| statement?~ The textbook modifies St. Cyprian's statement
2618 Fwd,5| revise” divine revelation by modifying masculine titles through
2619 9,15| at the time of Peter of Moghila. Most Eastern theologians
2620 3,21| under constant attack from Mohammedan forces, and although it
2621 11,4 | Bulgaria, Macedonia and Moldavia still employ the same Slavonic
2622 7,14| mere ball of clay, to be molded into whatever shape its
2623 5,4 | lions in arenas, and having molten lead poured down their throats,
2624 1,1 | ecumenism gains more and more momentum and increased support from
2625 1,16| age.~ Because the pious monarchs Constantine and his mother
2626 11,4 | Resurrection of Christ. On Monday, the holy angels, the closest
2627 6,16| in them, were guided by monetary interests, attacks on indulgences
2628 Fwd,5| the Church venerates St. Monica as a saint but reveres her
2629 3,16| derived from the Greek words mono (one) and physis (nature).
2630 6,18| petra, a large unmovable monolith.~ The Apostle Peter himself
2631 5,4 | monks, from the Greek word monos (single or alone), in reference
2632 2,35| Council, and it emphasized the monotheistic centrality of faith. The
2633 10,6 | is to have a life of drab monotony. However, it is a life of
2634 8,14| rather some semi-Sabellian monster,” as St. Photius described
2635 5,4 | for some hours, days and months, but for many years, sometimes
2636 11,4 | given in Fr. Seraphim's monumental book The Law of God.~ Fr.
2637 4,12| amount of art, treasures and monuments were stolen from churches
2638 3,11| these as tendencies, as moods, as a psychological cast.
2639 10,25| loose from its Orthodox moorings for one thousand years,
2640 9,29| life ends up in an empty moralism, in a superficiality [“From
2641 4,12| reminding us, and stirring us up morally and spiritually.” This function
2642 3,5 | God and God is the pope — Moreri.~ ~Until the ritual was
2643 6,6 | expound on this matter, Moscow was indeed the Third Rome,
2644 9,38| is left; in Old Slavonic, moshchi). Fr. Michael states that
2645 9,42| insect pests and vectors (mosquitoes, flies, lice, cockroaches,
2646 4,12| communicates the divine motherhood. In the Mother of God of
2647 1,1 | this process has been in motion for ages and that it will
2648 5,5 | fourteenth century. A rocky, mountainous peninsula in northern Greece,
2649 5,4 | expanse of desolate areas, in mountains and forests, in caves, cells
2650 10,28| the tribes of the earth mourn” (Mt 24:30). According to
2651 7,9 | sense that as the Church moves through history, it does
2652 4,12| images, on TV and in the movies. As another monk noted,
2653 7,17| at best “impious, witless muddles and, at worst, quasi-theological
2654 4,12| Constantinople and brought mules into the sanctuary to carry
2655 7,14| reflect sensitivity to “multicultural diversity” and “politically
2656 Ep | cold of human love; the multiplication of people in high places
2657 7,17| the fact that errors were multiplying in its manuscripts, and
2658 9,28| for they were to teach the multitudes and bring them to Christ.
2659 7,11| Orthodoxy to a “petrified mummy.” However, such an accusation
2660 3,5 | Universe, and Imperator Totius Mundi (Emperor of the Entire World). (
2661 1,1 | Poland, where the Latins murdered 800,000 Orthodox. At the
2662 9,42| ancestor Cain, who after murdering his brother Abel “went out
2663 1,1 | Church promoted countless murderous inquisitions in Eastern
2664 1,1 | numerous inquisitions and mass murders of the Orthodox (something
2665 11,4 | among the Orthodox Jews, Muslims, and Orthodox Christians
2666 7,14| causes it to perpetually mutate, thus guaranteeing to deny
2667 7,14| gradual, seductive, damaging mutation of Western Christianity
2668 3,18| before, but escorted by myriads of angels; and not secretly,
2669 Fwd,6| remained incorrupt and gushed myrrh that healed the sick. So
2670 9,7 | people's souls, just as the myrrh-bearing women brought perfumes when
2671 Fwd,5| particular role is played by the Myrrhbear-ers, to whom the Resurrection
2672 Ep | Mount Athos, St. Nilus the Myrrhstreaming (+1651). In it, the saint
2673 | myself
2674 10,20| Sacrifice] is presented” [Mystagogical Catechesis V, ch. 9). Particles
2675 2,17| Confessor (+662) states in his Mystagogy that we can use both affirmative
2676 1,8 | the word Mysteries (Greek Mysteria) that often comes up in
2677 7,11| rite of carrying out these Mysterion (Sacraments). Furthermore,
2678 11,4 | Church, Jesus Christ, is mysteriously and invisibly present in
2679 10,28| as joy in the blessed! [Mystic Treatises].~ ~C. Parousia
2680 10,28| faith and looks at things mystically — that is, tries to look
2681 9,42| the more certain that the mythical story of Pandora is a modified
2682 9,42| reach something divine, myths began about the creation
2683 2,36| the continual torrent of nagging criticism with impartial
2684 9,22| formed.~The lawless multitude nailed to the Cross~ The Lord of
2685 7,14| consider the arrogance and naiveté of those scholars who think
2686 4,12| and pattern of this holy napkin until its disappearance
2687 7,14| epithets as “medievalism,” narrow-mindedness, fanaticism, ignorance and
2688 11,4 | in their own language [“Nationalism, Russia, and the Restoration
2689 11,4 | music, regardless of the nationality. Greek-speaking Orthodox
2690 11,3 | an Orthodox priest and a nationally-known political columnist and
2691 4,12| and it began to employ naturalistic, carnal religious paintings
2692 9,23| destroyed death, and brought to naught him who had the power of
2693 9,42| outcasts. As Fr. Gregory Naumenko points out, the path of
2694 10,13| while at the United States Naval Academy, then to the Presbyterian
2695 11,4 | do not have the elongated naves and chancels of Gothic-style
2696 5,4 | to Moses the vow of the Nazarite — a vow of celibacy and
2697 2,6 | Bosphorus, calling this city Nea Romi (New Rome), although
2698 11,3 | their clownish antics and near-blasphemous inanities, their lurid sexual
2699 2,5 | Communism, Orthodoxy suffered near-continual martyrdom and was largely
2700 3,18| was convalescing after the near-fatal attempt on his life in St.
2701 Ep | but there are others: the near-universal apostasy from Christianity;
2702 2,17| far higher in nature and nearer to God than we, yet it is
2703 11,4 | feel as troops on parade, neatly arranged in rows of pews
2704 5,8 | how it is that God calls Nebuchadnezzar, a pagan and idolatrous
2705 Fwd,2| admission, it altogether negates this false teaching. (To
2706 1,1 | to appear; it impedes his negating spiritual activity. This
2707 2,17| beyond all affirmation or negation.~ Fr. Damascene continues,
2708 2,17| apophatic theology proceeds by negations. Metropolitan Hierotheos
2709 7,9 | first used when referring negatively to the false teachings of
2710 7,14| of revelation cannot be neglected, for the Holy Fathers are
2711 10,4 | the Church.~ Protestantism neglects the following aspects of
2712 7,15| understand the reading” (Nehemiah 8:8).~ ~
2713 4,12| Abgar, the ruler of the neighboring kingdom of Edessa. Abgar,
2714 Fwd,6| spiritual suffering in this neo-pagan society of our times. You
2715 7,14| themselves fully supported this neo-paganism [The Great Divide: the West
2716 7,11| and excluding innovations, Neophytos Doukas wrote in 1845 that:~ ~
2717 10,23| he was actually Abraham's nephew. Likewise, Genesis 29:15
2718 3,17| between St. Cyril and the Nestorians was not a political one,
2719 5,4 | them long entangled in the nets in the peace of self-forgetfulness
2720 Fwd,4| whether or not to use “gender neutral” or “inclusive” language.
2721 11,1 | again when St. Alexander Nevsky was forced to fight the
2722 7,17| words, St. Simeon called the newborn Lord a light to enlighten
2723 Fwd,6| attractive to these Western newcomers. Many of these inquirers
2724 Ep | door is already open to the nightmarish world of the future described
2725 2,35| to the entire Church. St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite (+1809) gives
2726 4,12| gifted writer, Prince Evgenii Nikolaevich Trubetskoi, examines these
2727 5,7 | Barsanuphius, Nektary and Nikon, all of whom have been glorified
2728 Ep | hermit of Mount Athos, St. Nilus the Myrrhstreaming (+1651).
2729 1,16| Russian prince Vladimir, St. Nina, who was the Enlightener
2730 | ninety
2731 7,16| that the Liturgy contains ninety-eight quotations from the Old
2732 5,8 | Assyria by fire and water, the Ninevites repented for a short period
2733 11,4 | Churches still employ the ninth-century translations in Old Church
2734 Fwd,5| quotidian life into a vision of nobility and beauty of soul [p. 19].~ ~
2735 Fwd,6| were also granted unceasing noetic prayer and became miracle-workers
2736 2,22| literal, according to the nominal, grammatical, verbal and
2737 5,8 | Testament, as well as the five nomothetic books of Moses, propound
2738 7,17| rationalists, ideologues and non-believers responsible for this travesty.~
2739 1,1 | Eastern Orthodoxy.~ Like the non-Chalcedonians before him, the pope precipitated
2740 10,13| took him through various non-denominational Protestant Churches while
2741 7,9 | in tradition, that is, in non-essential customs inherited from the
2742 1,15| law. It was decided that non-Jews who turned to God should
2743 7,5 | Eastern patriarchs to the non-jurors. Write out that quote.~
2744 4,15| spiritual must necessarily be non-material. As noted, such a view left
2745 10,14| Cyprian's statement with non-patristic speculation. It begins by
2746 Fwd,3| presented in an objective, non-polemical way. The author feels no
2747 6,16| a mentality increasingly non-religious in nature,” even when it
2748 Fwd,4| women, and also because non-sexist language is becoming the
2749 1,1 | contrast to its idea of a non-suffering Church stands the witness
2750 7,14| As a consequence of the Norman conquest and its mass genocide
2751 7,14| financed Duke William of Normandy to invade and subdue England,
2752 7,14| powerful one was that of the Normans, and that alliance proved
2753 7,14| selected by the Roman see as normative and worthy of merit. (In
2754 3,22| the dogmatic and canonical norms of the Orthodox faith, and
2755 7,11| Persia and Egypt; and in a northerly direction, spreading the
2756 1,1 | Orthodox America, vol. 18, nos. 7-8, 2000, p. 16].~ ~As
2757 Fwd,5| Greek), ha'adam (Hebrew), nôshô (Syriac), al-insan (Arabic),
2758 2,24| imprint of holiness are those not-wrought-by-men's-hands that have appeared
2759 5,8 | the history of Europe, a notable one is the influence exerted
2760 4,12| sacrilege. To assuage their notorious greed for booty, they tore
2761 7,14| Church's faithful members nourish themselves on these writings.~
2762 9,39| mentioned in one of the novels of J.D. Salinger, it has
2763 7,11| introduction of innovations and novelties continued in the West. At
2764 3,5 | been — has become utterly null and void [Ibid., pp. 6-7].~ ~
2765 10,23| virginity is completely nullified by Scripture, which states: “
2766 4,12| place of worship completely nullifies the mistaken notion that
2767 1,1 | largest Christian Church, numbering 350 million or more souls,
2768 3,5 | ministers and ambassadors [nuncios]. Likewise, the papacy remains
2769 9,39| habitat; his painstaking nursing of those who were stricken
2770 9,42| eat produce that lacked nutrition, and those who ate were
2771 Fwd,4| P.O. Box 36, Jordanville, NY 13361-0036~ ~St. John of
2772 2,6 | Bethlehem, and in Hebron at the Oak of Mamre. Later, in the
2773 11,4 | minded in the West [Austin Oakley, The Orthodox Liturgy, p.
2774 4,12| and soteriological, the obdurate refusal to recognize even
2775 8,14| avoided ditheism, it was still objectionable to the Orthodox in that
2776 11,4 | and in it is the table of oblation. At the beginning of the
2777 10,20| follows of itself from the obligation of Christians to support
2778 6,8 | familial and civil bonds and obligations could serve as a reliable
2779 1,11| Council were acknowledged as obligatory for the whole Church (Acts
2780 9,42| Andreyev states that the one oblique proof of the correctness
2781 6,6 | at the time Byzantium was obliterated by the Turks. Russia was
2782 11,4 | churches are built in an oblong shape, in imitation of a
2783 7,17| Virgin Birth itself — was obnoxious to the rationalists, ideologues
2784 5,8 | true faith.~ Sir Dimitry Obolensky, professor emeritus of Russian
2785 Fwd,5| dismiss the writer as an obscurantist for not using the politically
2786 2,35| required universal and uniform observance of these canons. Lastly,
2787 1,1 | the Church, and likewise observing the contemporary world,
2788 11,4 | new Mass” began to focus obsessively on the “people of God” rather
2789 1,1 | perfectly well that the main obstacle standing in their way was
2790 1,1 | Errors take root and become obstinate most frequently because
2791 10,23| toward the Lord until he obtains mercy, but having obtained
2792 Fwd,4| seem difficult. In order to obviate difficulties as much as
2793 9,15| Orthodox theologians. An occasional Augustinian view on the
2794 9,35| Hindu mysticism, humanism, occultism and Luciferism. The main
2795 7,17| fact that it is an everyday occurrence.~ In a 1952 edition of Time
2796 11,4 | Orthodox Church, Pascha occurs no earlier than March 22
2797 7,14| Orthodox Church, is a limitless ocean of wisdom and should be
2798 3,18| view from the skies, in the oceans, and on the continental
2799 11,4 | built in the shape of an octagon, like a star, to suggest
2800 11,4 | and tender verses of the Octoechos [“The Significance of the
2801 3,17| textbook places what seems an odd emphasis on what it views
2802 3,4 | Fathers were somehow at odds with each other, rather
2803 8,14| and lack of understanding of-, the role of the Holy Spirit,
2804 10,28| Christ stated: “If thy hand offend thee, cut it off; it is
2805 10,28| responsibility, the fear of offending God, and the awareness of
2806 2,20| Consequently, sin is not an offense to God, Who must be cured,
2807 1,1 | the mother of countless offenses perpetrated against God
2808 Fwd,5| world at large, and when the offensive word man is discovered in
2809 6,16| purifying fire with material offerings brought the people's disenchantment
2810 1,1 | or local ecclesiastical officer) of the Roman Church — a
2811 5,4 | who were influential royal officials, monastics have a special
2812 3,5 | pope at his coronation, the officiating cardinal proclaimed:~ ~Receive
2813 2,15| Ecumenical Synods), from oikoumenikos, meaning from all the inhabited
2814 2,15| then received the title Oikoumenkie Synodos (Ecumenical Synods),
2815 4,12| services in the catacombs, oil-burning lampadas are kept lit in
2816 11,1 | inspirational factor [Quoted in Olga Dolskaya, “Russian Liturgical
2817 2,6 | churches on the Mount of Olives in Bethlehem, and in Hebron
2818 6,16| that something unimaginably ominous had been moving inexorably
2819 10,23| son or sons — a systematic omission that additionally shows
2820 4,17| source does the textbook omit in this discussion which
2821 7,14| semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus creditum). St. Vincent wrote:~ ~
2822 10,10| with Him (Acts 10:35). The Omnipresent Good Provider God is over
2823 10,21| no necessity to possess omniscience, which is really proper
2824 3,11| history, the see of Rome, that once-great bastion of Orthodoxy in
2825 3,18| immediate past from the oncoming future. It will be an event
2826 7,11| as to avoid superficial, one-sided, and sometimes even prejudiced
2827 10,22| the departed high priest, Onias, who was “praying for all
2828 11,4 | assume a characteristic onion shape. One dome stands for
2829 4,19| incorrect opinions of Augustine onward) was based on Platonism.
2830 9,14| anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in (
2831 6,16| supererogatory good works (opera supererogatonis). From them,
2832 6,15| aspirations, and in the modi operand of the Roman popes. Conceit,
2833 Fwd,4| their own purposes, and they operate with the idea that human
2834 2,20| s justice for Westerners operated like a vendetta. Not only
2835 1,1 | effective siege engine, which operates as the janissaries of the
2836 7,11| is the illumination and operation of the Holy Spirit, there
2837 9,28| The Holy Spirit is operative in both Sacraments. He recreates
2838 10,14| determine, the text's writer opines, for it is known to God
2839 6,10| had even been its primary opponent in the West since Charlemagne'
2840 1,1 | intolerant and hateful people, opponents of the new world order and,
2841 Fwd,5| as its purpose increased opportunities for women. Once its organized
2842 6,8 | abusing its position, it oppressed them.~ ~
2843 7,17| Protestant Reformers] simply opted to get rid of the books
2844 7,14| of space. It was a very optimistic, idealized concept of man.
2845 7,11| but was only transmitted orally; and in what was preserved
2846 11,3 | comments that the old axiom lex orandi, lex credendi (as we worship,
2847 2,17| composition [Second Theological Oration, p. 289].~ ~
2848 10,16| ordination of clergy. He alone ordains all the orders except for
2849 11,3 | trombones, blow horns, use organs, wave their hands, trample
2850 9,21| Incarnation et anthropologie en orient et en Occident,” from Irenikon,
2851 7,14| powerful and profound religious orientation which will be absolutely
2852 10,23| their slander, which as Origen writes had already been
2853 7,14| individual to strive for originality in interpretation, but rather
2854 7,11| the illumination which is originative of perfection toward the
2855 Ep | secular philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset writes that “before
2856 4,12| prototypes, these icons were ostentations, worldly and devoid of spirituality.
2857 2,24| worldly, innovative and ostentatious style patterned after Western
2858 11,4 | these fans were made of ostrich feathers or leather and
2859 1,1 | fourteenth century, the Ottoman Turkish Sultanate began
2860 4,12| and Alexandria. Until the outbreak of Iconoclasm in 726, iconographic
2861 1,1 | phenomenon of Communism, an outburst of primordial satanism that
2862 9,42| were forbidden people, the outcasts. As Fr. Gregory Naumenko
2863 7,14| these scholars seek to outdo each other by coming up
2864 5,4 | and preserving the same outpouring of spiritual gifts which
2865 6,4 | Ecumenical Councils.~ From the outset, there was a marked antipathy
2866 4,12| devoid of spirituality. The outstanding Russian philosopher and
2867 10,26| care of her salvation and overcame all temptations. (St. John
2868 1,1 | withholding power cannot be overemphasized. It is therefore important
2869 3,16| swallowed up in His Divinity. In overemphasizing Christ's Divinity at the
2870 10,3 | child-killer's vessel of evil to overflow? This is how we must understand
2871 Fwd,6| in no way does this work overlook that half of the human race —
2872 9,22| assumed that the Church overlooks Christ's humanity or minimizes
2873 6,15| the Roman Church ceased overnight to be a repository of ecclesial
2874 7,14| think they are qualified to override (or more often, totally
2875 Fwd,5| the root of all evil, the overriding concern of the cultural
2876 5,8 | striving ceased, the empire was overrun by its enemies.~ The same
2877 1,1 | Constantinople, and elsewhere, oversaw the bishops of their respective
2878 10,16| It is the bishop's job to oversee and administer all the churches
2879 1,11| enlightenment and grace that overshadow bishops gathered in Councils,
2880 8,14| Persons of the Trinity are overshadowed by a common nature. This
2881 10,26| rejected the bitter Eve and overthrew the laws of the flesh.” (
2882 1,1 | will come to earth again to overthrow the antichrist, to resurrect
2883 6,15| Church's blessing to the overthrown, carried out by Pepin in
2884 7,14| however, saw life in such overtly pagan terms. Some realized
2885 1,1 | domination over the Church overtook the Roman popes, and in
2886 2,35| of a general council are overturned if the Church rejects them
2887 1,1 | heresies and schisms to overwhelm her. And the greatest villain
2888 Fwd,6| early Church, however, was overwhelmingly Eastern and Greek. [The
2889 7,11| and Holy Fathers that we owe the preservation and guarding
2890 Fwd,4| Holy Trinity Monastery,~P.O. Box 36, Jordanville, NY
2891 11,3 | escapades, their crass “P.T. Barnum” commercialism, and
2892 9,6 | significant quote from St. Gregory Pa-lamas on the nature of man. Write
2893 5,4 | communal monasticism is St. Pachomius the Great.~ Receiving and
2894 2,35| was disturbed and was not pacified until authentic Christian
2895 7,11| rejected. Many Protestants are painfully unaware of how it is that
2896 10,23| eternal life. She always gook pains to the end of her earthly
2897 9,39| native Indians' habitat; his painstaking nursing of those who were
2898 4,12| which the ancient Church so painstakingly avoided — the influence
2899 4,12| feelings and ideas of a painter, and oftentimes crudely
2900 2,24| sanctification is demanded of the painter-monastics, who prepare for their task
2901 7,20| innovate as he pleases, but paints within certain prescribed
2902 9,42| contains an open admission that paleontology is a “data-poor, imagination-rich”
2903 11,4 | account of the services pales in comparison to that of
2904 4,12| icons had functioned as palladia — that is, as protectors.
2905 Fwd,2| fingers are folded against the palm, and these represent the
2906 9,39| Arsenius the Great and Abba Pambo. St. Gregory Palamas states
2907 7,11| especially the book of Eusebius Pamphilus, Bishop of Caesarea, where
2908 10,14| in His own way [From the pamphlet “Will the Heterodox Be Saved?” (
2909 7,14| ecumenical movement created the pan heresy of ecumenism. This
2910 7,3 | Vasilievich Florovsky and Panagiotis Bratsiotis gave as the Church'
2911 10,23| St. Epiphanius of Cyprus, Panarion, 78). Also, the sister of
2912 10,27| veneration of their lungs or pancreas — something that goes against
2913 11,4 | marble screen supporting panel icons. One sometimes hears
2914 9,42| his cell pecking on the panes. One would think this was
2915 9,39| has been groaning in the pangs of childbirth” (Rom 8:19-
2916 9,35| deification rejects all forms of pantheism. Union with God in no wise
2917 11,4 | depiction of Christ the Pantocrator, the Ruler of the Universe.
2918 10,14| girded about with iron and paper. But such were the days
2919 10,23| that bare Thee, and the paps which Thou hast sucked” (
2920 11,4 | made to feel as troops on parade, neatly arranged in rows
2921 9,42| attempted to recreate the actual paradisiacal blessed condition by earthly
2922 7,9 | fast to the traditions [paradoseis] just as I delivered [paredoka]
2923 7,9 | the faith once delivered [paradotheise] unto the saints” (Jude
2924 9,42| and America (in Mexico, Paraguay, and others). What can explain
2925 9,42| Adam, there came to be two parallel lines of humanity. These
2926 9,42| are filled with striking parallels to the Genesis account.~
2927 10,21| Christianity to this day. A paraphrase of Fr. Michael's explanation
2928 9,42| of internal and external parasite causing sickness and misery
2929 9,42| in general; of sporozoan parasites, blood protozoans and every
2930 10,22| prayer of the holy man and pardoned the stiff-necked people (
2931 3,5 | regarded as primus inter pares (the first among equals)
2932 11,1 | than do the Romans. The parishioners sing together beautifully
2933 6,16| to be dabbled in at the parochial level.~ ~Politically, Christ
2934 4,12| through icons, presents a parody of icons — that is, fallen,
2935 9,35| or status.~ To become a partaker of the divine nature through
2936 9,42| into the divine essence. He partakes of the uncreated energies
2937 1,2 | on earth or have already parted into the future life. Those
2938 10,10| and outsider; no longer participating in the sacramental life
2939 10,20| Mystagogical Catechesis V, ch. 9). Particles taken out from the prosphoras
2940 3,14| Person a middle wall of partition. Consequently, not only
2941 11,4 | When Christ served His last Paschal service, He gave it new
2942 7,17| the service.~ After the passing of a couple of centuries,
2943 2,20| duel. This was the worldly, passionate conception of justice....~ ~
2944 4,12| be low, or what they call passionless. That is, the flames should
2945 9,13| response was far from a passive one, for Mary was an active
2946 Ep | are lacking in modesty [Paternal Counsels, vol. 1, p. 59].~ ~
2947 9,42| of bacteria, viruses and pathogens in general; of sporozoan
2948 6,18| this reason, the subject of patristics (or patrology, the study
2949 6,18| subject of patristics (or patrology, the study of the teaching
2950 10,26| Scholasticism), and finally, the patronage of the popes after Sixtus
2951 6,8 | disregard, contempt and patronization of one's flock is characteristic
2952 7,14| dislodge him; the most powerful patrons of art in Europe, the Renaissance
2953 9,15| harmony with the consensus Patrum, the consensus of the Fathers.
2954 7,17| from Hebrew to Greek, he paused in perplexity at the following
2955 1,1 | peace, and the title the Peacemaker was ascribed to Tsar Alexander
2956 4,12| symbols of Christ), and the peacock (a symbol of the Resurrection).
2957 5,5 | culminates at its tip in a peak 6,670 feet in elevation.
2958 5,7 | Barnabas (Belyaev), Bishop of Pechersky, himself an elder, left
2959 9,42| the windows of his cell pecking on the panes. One would
2960 3,11| notes that regarding the peculiarities of the spirit of the Roman
2961 2,33| particular existence, the peculiarly characteristic features
2962 10,28| a threat or as a certain pedagogical means applied by the Savior.
2963 7,14| can promote himself as a peer of “Paul.” Such an assertion
2964 7,17| apocrypha, often with a pejorative connotation, and also a
2965 9,12| time of Augustine and the Pelagian heresy, has seen the matter
2966 1,1 | Monothelitism, Iconoclasm, Pelagianism, and simply every possible
2967 9,24| thus making it take on penal or juridical aspects. Orthodoxy,
2968 1,1 | immunity from civil law or its penalties” (#37). The textbook for
2969 7,14| to approve of the death penalty for them on the grounds
2970 9,39| it is also a theology of penitence.”~ (7) The method to follow
2971 5,8 | justice? The same St. Nikolai penned this answer from his place
2972 9,28| the Lenten Triodion and Pentecostarion, p. 239].~ ~In addition
2973 | per
2974 8,4 | God: they are visible and perceivable manifestations that make
2975 11,1 | Christianity is the power of perceiving the beauty in the spiritual
2976 1,1 | Protestant worlds, eighty-five percent of Orthodox Christians came
2977 4,12| remarks, “We are led by perceptible icons to the contemplation
2978 1,1 | Orthodox. As Alexei Khomiakov perceptibly noted, the ancestors of
2979 Fwd,4| since Apostolic times.~ The perceptive reader will observe that
2980 Fwd,6| salvation from this life of perdition is accomplished.~Steven
2981 10,16| Theophan of Poltava and Pereyaslavka, confessor to the last imperial
2982 10,16| pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of saints, for the work
2983 9,7 | myrrh-bearing women brought perfumes when they went to the tomb
2984 7,17| changes can be exceedingly perilous to a Christian believer.
2985 9,29| In Orthodox America, a periodical of Orthodox traditionalism,
2986 10,16| of hands. New chrism is periodically blessed and the old chrism
2987 Fwd,4| to many of the books and periodicals whose contents went into
2988 8,14| thought, either directly or peripherally, is dedicated to the question
2989 7,11| this age, who are doomed to perish; but we speak the wisdom
2990 1,1 | Church “has not only not perished in this world, but has grown
2991 7,14| sea of life, and they are perishing in the waves of vain sophistries [
2992 2,20| and God, leaving people permanently without a cure, without
2993 9,35| teachings. These ideas have permeated all spheres of society and
2994 9,35| movement, the idea which permeates and connects all of the
2995 1,1 | mother of countless offenses perpetrated against God and His Holy
2996 8,5 | dwell in the other Two by a perpetual movement of love.~ ~
2997 7,14| Enlightenment, humanist thinkers perpetuated the Renaissance fascination
2998 10,6 | place where the Incarnation perpetuates itself.” As the Greek theologian
2999 10,16| chrism is added to it, thus perpetuating a chain of blessing reaching
3000 1,1 | by different conquerors, persecutors and heretical movements,
3001 7,11| Cavarnos continues, the strict perseverance in Tradition does not at
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