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3002 7,11| up the Cross in Arabia, Persia and Egypt; and in a northerly
3003 1,1 | empires were the Egyptian, the Persian, the Greek and the Roman,
3004 7,11| Christian faith.... If under the persistent, ceaseless persecution —
3005 7,9 | New Year. The Church has persistently condemned and battled against
3006 4,12| the more continually holy personages are seen in icons, the more
3007 7,9 | of tradition — which is personified by the pope, and develops
3008 6,18| infallibility. In this book, the perspicacious author made a number of
3009 1,1 | Uniate movement could not persuade Orthodox Christians to become
3010 7,14| that unless he could be persuaded by Scripture or by plain
3011 10,20| them. The Apostle James persuades us to pray for one another (
3012 7,11| Western Church gives the most persuasive witness to this fact, for
3013 9,22| spirit of the Resurrection pervades the entire life of the Orthodox
3014 7,14| no matter how outlandish, perverse or factually untrue. As
3015 9,15| Man's will is weakened and perverted by what the Greeks call
3016 9,15| Righteousness, IV-9]. This pessimistic view came from the belief
3017 9,42| that brought about insect pests and vectors (mosquitoes,
3018 10,21| house” (Mt 5:15); and b) petitions to that person that he might
3019 3,5 | but on the rock (super petram) of the Apostle's confession
3020 7,11| likened Orthodoxy to a “petrified mummy.” However, such an
3021 3,5 | was built on Peter (super Petrum), but on the rock (super
3022 7,17| third century. Demetrios Phalarios, a learned courtier of Ptolemy
3023 2,17| if you were a Moses... to Pharaoh, even if you were caught
3024 7,21| legalism which constitutes Pharisaical justice and self-justification
3025 10,28| parable of the publican and Pharisee, and the second Sunday's
3026 7,14| Does the acquisition of a PhD give one greater insight
3027 7,14| universities do not give out PhDs to those who merely pass
3028 6,14| Passion.” [Ignatius to the Philadelphians 5:3.] The same Father further
3029 9,16| Incarnation as an act of God's philanthropia. It interprets this word
3030 Fwd,5| Holy Mother [Deacon Andrew Philips].~ ~Likewise, as the above
3031 11,3 | Christ the King of kings [The Philokalia,, vol. 1, p. 37].~ ~In comparison
3032 Fwd,5| Orthodoxy and a scholarly philologist, notes that in its ordinary
3033 5,1 | citizens would discuss and philosophize about the Trinitarian and
3034 Ep | 2-5).~ ~The Greek Elder Philotheos Zervakos (+1980) additionally
3035 9,42| the Phrygians, Chaldeans, Phoenicians, Babylonians, Assyrians,
3036 11,3 | use of shills, pitchmen, phony sick people who come forward
3037 7,11| is shown in Old Testament phrases such as “Thus saith the
3038 9,42| among them, as well as the Phrygians, Chaldeans, Phoenicians,
3039 10,16| continued to grow, it became physically impossible for an Apostle
3040 3,16| Greek words mono (one) and physis (nature). Although Orthodoxy
3041 7,14| lives. And for you to now pick up the book which we have
3042 7,14| the Incarnate God. This pick-and-choose-what-to-believe approach has become the
3043 4,12| Scripture on their tombs, and pictorial representations of events
3044 10,28| sinned against love is more piercing than any other pain. It
3045 7,11| to the French Jansenist Pierre Leclerc, Voulgaris spoke
3046 10,20| them on the part of the pilgrim Church on earth does not
3047 9,38| uncovering or translation; e) in pilgrimages to holy tombs, and in adorning
3048 4,12| likewise Christians, as pilgrims in this fallen world, should
3049 4,12| wanton spree of murder, pillage and sacrilege. To assuage
3050 10,1 | the invisible Shepherd and Pilot of the Church. “I am with
3051 7,14| could fit on the head of a pin. However, through this new
3052 6,15| largely symbolic and does not pinpoint the exact date of separation
3053 9,3 | consciousness of the Church always piously protected the faith in the
3054 11,3 | dead.... The use of shills, pitchmen, phony sick people who come
3055 4,12| icons: “I enter the common place-of-therapy of souls, the church, choked
3056 7,17| remembrance of the tenth and final plague that led to the Hebrews'
3057 11,4 | ecclesiastical music. The same plain-chant, introduced into the Slavic
3058 4,12| while we live on a higher plane of being. As St. John Damascene
3059 1,1 | world government is being planned (it will claim to be the
3060 7,17| Trojan horses fabricated for planting within the innermost recesses
3061 2,6 | into the largest of garden plants [Sola Scriptura: an Orthodox
3062 6,12| inscribed on two silver plaques-one in Latin and one in Greek —
3063 7,13| its cover usually gold plated, is kept in a place of honor
3064 4,19| forerunners Augustine (thus Plato), Avicenna (and his interpretations
3065 7,14| radical departure from the Platonic worldview which had given
3066 4,19| Augustine onward) was based on Platonism. Later Western theology
3067 10,25| Incarnation and the part she plays in people's salvation. In
3068 1,1 | the Eastern patriarchs pleaded with the Roman patriarch
3069 7,20| adapt or innovate as he pleases, but paints within certain
3070 11,4 | of the righteous.~ ~What plentiful material our divine service
3071 6,15| cataclysmic schism that plunged Western Europe into the
3072 7,14| movement also preaches a pluralism that maintains that the
3073 7,14| Peter Jackson notes, in pluralistic Western culture, no opinion
3074 9,3 | In the New Testament, the plurality of the Tri-Hypostatic God
3075 10,5 | Body of Christ); and it is Pneumatological (inasmuch as the Church
3076 11,4 | verses and canons in lofty poetical images! Particularly the
3077 10,23| Mary, and the liturgical poetry of Orthodoxy often refers
3078 10,22| the Hebrew people,” and, pointing to another man who was with
3079 1,1 | concludes, those who are poisoned by the devil by holding
3080 9,42| harmful arachnids such as poisonous spiders, ticks, mites, chiggers
3081 1,1 | Christian times. Even the most polemic Westerners acknowledge that
3082 5,5 | Fathers to the ecumenical policies of Patriarch Bartholomew
3083 1,1 | including swordpoint***. This policy is fundamental for Islam'
3084 7,17| translators, social scientists and politicians.” As a result, the Bible
3085 Fwd,5| by other means.~ Such a politicizing of history and literature
3086 6,16| purgatory, among which is the politico-economic connection of popery. He
3087 9,35| According to a recent poll, two thirds of Americans
3088 10,16| Archbishop Theophan of Poltava and Pereyaslavka, confessor
3089 9,42| crimes, corruption, wars, polygamy, etc. Because of these sufferings,
3090 9,3 | Hebrews apostatize to the polytheism of their neighbors and worship
3091 9,42| surrounded as they were by polytheistic nations, the truth of one
3092 11,4 | each petition with Gospodi pomilui or Kyrie eleison (Lord,
3093 1,1 | Roman pope. Even the title Pontifex Maximus that the Roman emperors
3094 6,8 | in the hands of the Roman pontiffs for the achievement of their
3095 1,8 | to anyone who observes a Pontifical Liturgy in which the bishop
3096 6,16| can — fly the mercy of the pope-make use of the supererogatory
3097 Fwd,5| understood use among the populace at large, when the word
3098 11,3 | doctrine, but on their personal popularity or celebrity status [Dancing
3099 5,8 | nature, for Byzantium was populated with poor, fallen and sinful
3100 5,4 | are portrayed on TV, this portrayal is generally done with utter
3101 Fwd,5| Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian. Moreover,
3102 2,20| Dr. Alexander Kalomiros poses the questions, What was
3103 9,42| Dr. Spetner goes on to posit that the variations that
3104 10,28| Word of God speaks with positiveness and certainty concerning
3105 10,14| you, being Orthodox, and possessing the Truth in its fullness,
3106 9,3 | person pronoun Us and the possessive adjectives Our are likewise
3107 7,14| Catholicism of its immediate post-conquest period. Thus, with the disappearance
3108 9,42| the lower conditions of post-flood humanity.~ ~ ~ ~
3109 9,24| tradition of the medieval and post-medieval West view Christ's Crucifixion
3110 9,42| Noah's ark, and then in post-Noahic flood times, in the Christian
3111 1,1 | heretical societies of the post-Orthodox West can be spoken of as
3112 7,17| Christians, but for the post-Resurrection Jews. They in many cases
3113 9,42| of Evolution, 1977]. This postulate and all of this scientist'
3114 10,10| nature of Christianity by postulating an abstract reality that
3115 9,3 | given in the beginning only potentially, and man himself was to
3116 1,1 | supreme worldly power that the power-hungry popes arrogated to themselves,
3117 4,12| period hymns man's egoism and powerfulness, his self-perception in
3118 6,16| law or the commandments (praecepta), offered superabundant,
3119 5,4 | touched the prosaic aspects of pragmatic human affairs.~ Regarding
3120 10,21| thousands of thousands” who praised the Lord (Rev 5:11).~ The
3121 7,17| Nathanael writes, “Humanity has praiseworthily vindicated the trust of
3122 10,23| much easier to prove her praiseworthy life. Therefore, abandoning
3123 10,21| communion with him — sc., a) the praising of his ascetic struggles,
3124 7,14| Orthodox Christianity of pre-conquest England, to the Roman Catholicism
3125 4,12| are healing, and they even pre-date the Gospels being written
3126 9,42| corruptible body, some measure of pre-fall Adam. Like Adam, they were
3127 3,5 | mirror the practices of the Pre-Nicaean Church. These canons were
3128 11,4 | listening to a performance by a preacher and choir, are incompatible
3129 7,14| ecumenical movement also preaches a pluralism that maintains
3130 7,11| is, the oral Tradition) preceded the inscription of the New
3131 1,15| and 2) the Council set the precedent for Church leaders to meet
3132 9,37| give the explanation which precedes it.~ St. Maximus the Confessor
3133 1,15| troubled with the rigorous precepts of the law of Moses, save
3134 3,12| In what way did Nestorius precipitate the controversy which led
3135 1,1 | non-Chalcedonians before him, the pope precipitated another schism, and like
3136 9,42| animals show no interest in predation, and the timid animals show
3137 9,42| beginning, but that the predatory condition is related to
3138 9,12| controversies concerning grace and predestination. However, it does state
3139 7,14| conclusions essentially predetermined by their basic assumptions,
3140 10,26| people apart from their will, predetermining certain ones at conception
3141 5,8 | Then, seeing that Jonah's prediction did not come to pass, the
3142 7,11| for the preservation and predominance of the Apostolic Tradition
3143 1,1 | small minority existing in a predominantly non-Christian society, and
3144 7,7 | distinction Cavarnos makes) is preferable, and the quotation in the
3145 7,17| why the Orthodox Church prefers the Septuagint translation
3146 7,17| the ancient prophecies and prefigurations of Christ the Savior, and
3147 7,11| one-sided, and sometimes even prejudiced and false interpretations
3148 1,1 | political and theological prejudices that served to relegate
3149 2,19| understandable by giving some needed preliminary information. He states that
3150 9,15| Concerning Infants Snatched Away Prematurely. In it, this Father states
3151 Ep | government of the antichrist, the preparations for which have already begun
3152 9,42| Such is the concept of prepodobny in Orthodoxy: a saint who
3153 9,42| same Father states that a preponderance of daughters was born to
3154 11,3 | the Church, the most basic prerequisite for individual repentance,
3155 10,19| Council are strictly the prerogatives of bishops by virtue of
3156 1,1 | returned to the catacombs, thus presaging the end-times events that
3157 11,1 | sung at the Liturgy of the Presanctified: “Now the powers of Heaven
3158 6,14| acts without the bishop and presbyter and the deacons does not
3159 1,1 | beliefs [Fr. David Cownie and Presbytera Juliana Cownine, A Guide
3160 Fwd,4| according to the feminist prescription. In their act of rebellion
3161 7,13| and sacrifices, and the prescriptions for the Israelites' daily
3162 7,17| scribes known as masoretes (preservers of tradition) removed all
3163 3,18| bishops must assign the presidency to the senior bishop who
3164 6,18| Munich University and was president of the Bavarian Royal Academy
3165 3,5 | exalted the city over which he presides. Orthodoxy distinguishes
3166 9,42| uncertainties such as perhaps, presumably, appears to be, seemingly,
3167 1,10| this course, nor does he presume to consider himself an expert
3168 7,14| interpretation, is highly presumptuous in my opinion.... There
3169 7,14| who have senselessly and presumptuously rejected the Holy Fathers,
3170 10,20| 1 Jn 5:16). One must not presuppose that these exhortations
3171 10,10| when there were three papal pretenders, it was hardly possible
3172 6,9 | for power and its papal pretenses were contrary to the traditions
3173 6,8 | this matter with various pretexts, the ultimate aim of this
3174 5,7 | spiritual impoverishment prevails, the grace of eldership
3175 7,5 | and a monument of great price, neither adding anything,
3176 10,6 | extension of His prophetic, priestly and kingly power.... The
3177 9,15| Church speaks of justificatio prima and justificatio secunda,
3178 3,5 | pope remains a king, with a prime minister, ministers and
3179 Fwd,5| foreknowledge of the fall of the primogenitors of the human race. This
3180 3,5 | father), was regarded as primus inter pares (the first among
3181 8,14| principle” (tanquam ab uno principio et unica spiratione). Although
3182 7,17| forbade the Bible to be printed without them. It is an unknown
3183 6,17| intellectual observations on this a priori assumption. In viewing history,
3184 5,8 | knowledge of God [Through a Prison Window].~ ~In sacred history,
3185 7,14| is not to be interpreted privately, but as a Church, was given
3186 10,26| Almighty God and by a special privilege, for the sake of the future
3187 10,10| Church or entitled to the privileges of its membership, unless
3188 9,42| valid, given the distinct probability that the giants mentioned
3189 1,11| provide a common bond. It is probable beyond doubt that the early
3190 5,7 | have passed through a long probation and have come to know spiritual
3191 3,9 | Orthodox Church, but rather proceeded on self-will.~ ~
3192 8,11| the Spirit of Truth Who proceedeth from the Father, He shall
3193 8,7 | speak of the Holy Spirit's proceeding from the Son. The filioque
3194 7,7 | Church and was written in the Proceedings of the Synods and in the
3195 10,28| Sunday's is that of the prodigal son. Both show God's immense
3196 7,9 | from mankind and are the products of the human mind. Sacred
3197 Fwd,3| the demons, for it is a profane gesture.~ Apostolic Succession
3198 11,1 | Moslems, the Khazars who professed Judaism, the Franks and
3199 8,2 | recondite subject reserved for professional scholars, is something that
3200 2,36| answered persecutions with professions of faith and martyrdom;
3201 Fwd,5| rejected or edited, and some professors have even been denied tenure
3202 7,14| of its authority and its profitability, still, there is no place
3203 6,16| Victor Potapov notes that the profitableness of indulgences led to their
3204 10,20| the departed can never be profitless. If the departed ones have
3205 9,42| image of Adam and the second progenitor of the human race. In his
3206 9,42| because of the fall of the progenitors of the human race, the universe
3207 9,42| though most of his and Eve's progeny lived far away from God
3208 Fwd,4| radically secular media bent on programming its audience with an anti-Christian
3209 7,11| are perfected with the progress of time, insofar as its
3210 9,39| sorrowful of their sins as they progressed in union with God. The textbook
3211 7,14| emphasis added].~ ~The West's progressive departure from the Orthodox
3212 7,3 | death of socialists and progressives alike with their reforming [
3213 2,6 | and Christian literature proliferated. In short, the Church became
3214 Ep | apostasy from Christianity; the proliferation of false teachers and deceivers;
3215 5,8 | senses by this punishment [Prologue from Ochrid].~ ~It is only
3216 11,4 | Christ's time in order to prolong the suffering and agony
3217 Fwd,1| Apostolic Succession, something prominently discussed in the New Testament (
3218 9,34| theosis.~ Through these promises you may become partakers
3219 6,16| through the popes' ex cathedra promulgations of falsehood. Subsequently,
3220 7,17| with, and those means are prone to error.~ The Jewish community
3221 3,5 | schism, the following papal pronouncements-all diabolical in nature — clearly
3222 8,14| attempts at philosophical “proofs” of God's existence, bequeathed
3223 1,1 | the Syllabus of Errors propagated by Pope Pius IX in 1864,
3224 11,4 | bloodbaths from the forced propagation of Uniatism by the Vatican,
3225 7,17| elder Simeon and Anna the prophetess testified before all the
3226 Fwd,6| ascetics, abbesses, anchorites, prophetesses, queens, mothers, confessors,
3227 10,23| the verification of this prophetical saying of the Panagia? [
3228 7,17| also make quite evident, prophetically, the special role of the
3229 2,20| the Cross, Christ did not propitiate the Father, but He cured
3230 2,20| and therefore He must be propitiated and appeased. Such an attitude
3231 2,20| Latin] teaching... about the propitiation of divine justice has direct
3232 10,20| and by the powers of the propitiatory Bloodless Sacrifice that
3233 4,19| Protestants consider the chief proponent of Iconoclasm, the Byzantine
3234 Ep | greed will attain great proportions, and woe to those who pile
3235 7,14| man in this work, Aquinas proposed that while the will of man
3236 7,14| from two given or assumed propositions (premises): a common or
3237 5,8 | nomothetic books of Moses, propound the close relationship between
3238 7,11| the dogmatic definitions propounded at its Seven Ecumenical
3239 9,35| of one prominent New Age proselytizer, actress Shirley MacLaine: “
3240 5,8 | unbelievers are left to prosper? Where is God's justice?
3241 5,8 | of the people and their prosperity. In other words, they show
3242 2,6 | that His Church would be prosperous or the most numerous of
3243 10,20| Particles taken out from the prosphoras in commemoration of the
3244 4,12| the Latin marauders placed prostitutes upon the altars of Orthodox
3245 7,13| the faithful kiss it and prostrate themselves before it. Such
3246 11,4 | one makes another bow or prostration.~ Here ends the correspondence
3247 7,14| of the Greek philosopher Protagoras (sixth century BC), who
3248 10,23| to Him, raising Him, and protecting Him in His youth.~ The Holy
3249 7,14| assertion was taken over by the Protestant-dominated ecumenical movement as its
3250 5,5 | Constantinople against any protests directed at that Patriarchate'
3251 9,42| sporozoan parasites, blood protozoans and every kind of internal
3252 Ep | selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient
3253 7,14| James 1:22), and have been proven by their lives worthy interpreters
3254 Fwd,5| almost to confirm a popular proverb: “Behind every great man
3255 7,14| interpretation of Scripture proves that a person or local congregation
3256 2,15| ordinarily convene in a provincial capital and would be presided
3257 7,19| symbolical tome and a synodical provision, and moreover, each Synod
3258 7,19| dogmatic topics are called provisions, and more generally speaking,
3259 10,28| Why hath the ungodly one provoked God? For he hath said in
3260 10,21| Jesus Christ and are more proximate to God than we, that they
3261 7,17| the Torah, Prophets and Psalms) and the European synagogue
3262 7,16| Orthodox Church.~· The Psalter, which is read in its entirety
3263 Fwd,4| Living in a post-Christian pseudo-culture, modern people are saturated
3264 Fwd,5| tyranny, mind control and pseudo-intellectual babble coming from educators,
3265 6,15| the innumerable sects and pseudo-religious movements of modern times;
3266 11,3 | with Catholic priests in psychedelic vestments serving in sanctuaries
3267 7,14| most speculative Freudian psychoanalysts, Protestant scholars subjectively
3268 2,20| cunning, almost indomitable, psychology. The devil has continuously
3269 4,12| us from the physical and psychophysical to the spiritual realm.
3270 Fwd,4| catalogues of the following publishing concerns:~ ~Holy Trinity
3271 9,15| from limbus infantum or puerum, is a place where babies
3272 4,12| Christ and the saints with “puffy faces,” “red mouths,” “thick
3273 6,16| proclaimed and enforced from the pulpit prior to the Vatican Council
3274 5,8 | has no need to see people punished — but out of love. If God
3275 2,20| not justice at all, for it punishes people who are completely
3276 7,11| are to their sources the purer they are [Ibid., p. 16].~ ~
3277 Fwd,6| and it contrasts that purest form of Christianity with
3278 6,16| on so-called purgatory (purgatorium), Orthodoxy considers it
3279 6,16| dead are not cleansed or purged of their iniquities by virtue
3280 9,22| is wrapped about with the purple of mockery~ Who wraps the
3281 Fwd,4| religion serve their own purposes, and they operate with the
3282 5,8 | long-standing idolatry and pursing heathen practices, and because
3283 7,14| 1054, the West was free to pursue its search for a new religion.
3284 7,14| they took speak of the aims pursued by them: the Eastern Church
3285 4,12| everyday worldly matters and pursuits, Christians can forget things
3286 Fwd,5| program, but it has also pushed harder along these lines
3287 9,35| the powers of darkness are pushing forward toward the new world
3288 6,15| Afterwards, the continuing putrefaction of the Roman Church produced
3289 7,17| Jamnia. The answer to the puzzle is quite simple: the books (
3290 6,3 | Mediterranean Sea, from the Pyrenees and Spain, through north
3291 6,18| rock is. He states without qualification that the rock is Christ. “
3292 7,14| scholars who think they are qualified to override (or more often,
3293 6,16| supererogatonis). From them, a certain quantity still remains, as it were,
3294 3,17| emphasis on what it views as a quarrel between two theological
3295 7,14| likemindedness, there will be only quarrels, disagreements and divisions.
3296 3,17| the distinction between a quasi-Nestorian Antiochene school and an
3297 7,17| witless muddles and, at worst, quasi-theological arsenic — or, to use another
3298 7,15| Djan Darada, a eunuch of Queen Candice of Ethiopia. As
3299 Fwd,6| anchorites, prophetesses, queens, mothers, confessors, teachers
3300 11,1 | states:~ ~The morning was so queer. A very grimy and sordid
3301 Fwd,2| valid. To the seminarian's query as to how the rector could
3302 8,14| existence.~ To learn of God by questioning His existence is the Western
3303 10,25| Protestantism is always quick to identify the veneration
3304 1,1 | Imperial Russia.... And for the quickest and surest annihilation
3305 9,39| Orthodoxy rejects all forms of quietism and all forms of love that
3306 Fwd,5| objective, this concern was quietly placed on a back burner
3307 6,18| circles, the decree stressed quocumque idiomate — “in whatever
3308 Fwd,5| and lift us up out of our quotidian life into a vision of nobility
3309 9,42| made by secular historians (R. Andree, H. Usener and T.G.
3310 5,7 | Suffering Hearts: Eldress Rachel, Visionary of Russia, p.
3311 Fwd,5| lines as possible (gender, racial, and other lines), the masses
3312 7,21| a result, controversies rage on the practical canons,
3313 5,5 | their expulsion, a fire raged out of control for several
3314 Fwd,5| another by the ideological war raging within our borders as it
3315 5,5 | circumstances. Although there was rain everywhere on the peninsula
3316 2,22| of God” (Jn 1:12), which raises them to Heaven.~ Regarding
3317 4,12| Orthodox Christian blood ran in the streets of Constantinople
3318 7,14| Jehovah's Witnesses who rang his doorbell. He stated:~ ~
3319 5,6 | assume a vast sociological range of functions, Catholic monastics
3320 11,3 | irreverent, subjective spectacles ranging from comedy, to one-man
3321 3,5 | inasmuch as the highest ranking bishop would preside in
3322 10,28| to give His life [as] a ransom for many” (Mt 20: 28). In
3323 4,12| spiritual world. Not only should Raphael's madonnas not be found
3324 6,15| developed with surprising rapidity into a religion different
3325 6,15| on this territory.~ ~This rapidly corrupted the morals of
3326 5,8 | Commentary on Genesis, p. 329]. Rassaphore Nun Maria goes on to add
3327 2,20| Church was composed and ratified by the Seven Ecumenical
3328 3,5 | in this regard became the rationale for thousands of independent
3329 7,17| itself — was obnoxious to the rationalists, ideologues and non-believers
3330 9,3 | it includes qualities of rationality, free will, and man's sense
3331 6,9 | of one Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. This “Note” states that “
3332 5,8 | that's why He allows us to ravage the earth and inflict suffering
3333 1,1 | especially when Communism ravaged nearly the whole of the
3334 6,15| into the pope's hands the Ravenna Exarchate, which had previously
3335 1,1 | is silent. However, Fr. Raymond Brown, a Roman Catholic
3336 4,12| for Jesus' face gave out rays of some unearthly light,
3337 6,14| against schism, calling it a re-crucifixion of Christ.~ ~
3338 Fwd,5| thought police attempt to “re-image” God and “revise” divine
3339 6,16| against them. Increasingly he reacted with tears [The Rush to
3340 9,42| Canaanites are two differing reactions of man's reason to the fall
3341 4,12| those who love icons thereby reaffirm their love for God in visible
3342 10,10| Church, and it recently reaffirmed its primacy with the document
3343 4,12| antique pagan painting and realism — was in full measure reborn
3344 9,21| theological concepts and realities of Eastern Christianity
3345 1,8 | Society — that is, one which realizes its proper function when
3346 Fwd,5| linguistic. Fr. Patrick Reardon, a convert to Orthodoxy
3347 2,35| the Holy Spirit; and its reasonings are based on the concrete,
3348 6,17| Lucifer's suggestion to rebel against God, and even as
3349 9,42| creation. All nature, then, rebelled against man and now does
3350 11,4 | am to 12:00 noon, and it recalls the descent of the Holy
3351 9,42| ignorance in the given case recedes less from the truth than
3352 11,4 | South Slavic languages are recensions, and it came to be the tongue
3353 7,17| planting within the innermost recesses of unsuspecting minds,”
3354 7,11| both have remained within a reciprocal unity and intimate relationship —
3355 11,4 | service as an occasion to recite private prayers and the
3356 10,21| communion of saints when it recites the Apostles' Creed. (This
3357 11,4 | celebration of Passover. This reckoning is based on the sequence
3358 7,13| are significant only as recollections of the past and for edification
3359 2,19| with men, but that Christ reconciles man to God. Moreover, the
3360 8,2 | Trinity, rather than being a recondite subject reserved for professional
3361 7,11| Tradition: (1) the most ancient record of the Church, the Canons
3362 9,42| route and attempted to recreate the actual paradisiacal
3363 9,28| operative in both Sacraments. He recreates our nature by purifying
3364 1,1 | Christians witnessing a recrudescence of warlike fanaticism on
3365 1,1 | the past no longer exists, recycled Communist leaders continue
3366 Fwd,4| presenting this revised redaction to the reader, a dilemma
3367 7,17| views. These agenda-driven redactors, the staff members observe,
3368 9,28| Ps 104: 30, Job 33:4); He redeems (Isa 44:3,23); and He offers
3369 1,1 | theological thought. As they rediscover the Church of the Tsars
3370 7,14| and all claiming to have rediscovered “lost biblical truth.” This
3371 7,14| Italian Renaissance with the rediscovery of the ancient classics.
3372 4,12| observations are echoed in Herbert Reed, a famous English aesthetician
3373 1,1 | imprisoned in special camps for “reeducation, “ where they will be severely
3374 Fwd,2| caused the Christian world to reel in shock. According to this
3375 1,1 | deterring the lawless reeling and absurd teaching of the
3376 7,14| Protestantism] did not reestablish ancient Christianity, it
3377 9,42| Peaceable Kingdom has been reestablished since Adam and Eve's time
3378 7,21| mentality, this group wants to reexamine everything that Orthodox
3379 Fwd,5| man, and the masculine referent pronoun. She notes that
3380 Fwd,4| stages to alter, adapt, refine and otherwise make valuable
3381 2,6 | liturgical music (chant) and the refinement of religious art (iconography),
3382 7,14| its popular attitudes that reflect sensitivity to “multicultural
3383 10,6 | This characteristic is reflected in the Church, which consists
3384 7,14| believe that there are dogmas reflecting absolute truth.~ In the
3385 7,3 | progressives alike with their reforming [in the Latin Church]. It
3386 7,9 | Russian Church over liturgical reforms introduced in the mid-seventeenth
3387 Ep | out of the world in holy refuges in search of lightening
3388 9,13| Although Mary had the choice to refuse, her reply was, “Behold
3389 3,5 | Scripture (Acts 15) clearly refute this idea. Although Peter
3390 1,1 | teaching is false because it is refuted by Scripture, which makes
3391 9,42| sufferings, the desire to regain the blessed existence of
3392 5,6 | created in an effort to regenerate the Church. In Orthodoxy,
3393 4,12| human transformation and regeneration “by instructing us, reminding
3394 2,15| there were also councils of regional bishops representing a wider
3395 6,18| and cities of the Western regions. Importantly, this document
3396 3,18| a success that has never registered in the life of any preceding
3397 7,21| conditions of modern life.~ Regrettably, the modernists always conclude
3398 5,8 | indication of repentance. Cain regretted his sin, but he did not
3399 9,39| Mysteries (Sacraments) on a regular basis, praying to God “in
3400 4,12| those saints to whom one regularly prays. According to a tradition
3401 Fwd,5| deculturation that attempts to regulate Christianity to a “regressive”
3402 7,14| agents of ecumenism grant its regulatory control to the clear enemies
3403 1,1 | original. Most have been rehashes of the ancient follies).~
3404 1,1 | words. These new teachers, rehashing the ancient heresy of chiliasm,
3405 1,1 | prince of this world, Satan, reigned in paganism, which was a
3406 6,7 | further political development reinforced this initial divergence:
3407 7,11| and for refuting heretical reinterpretations of it, and, in general,
3408 4,12| windows. That is, icons were reintroduced into Protestant churches
3409 1,1 | Antichrist, p. 4].~ ~To reiterate and summarize, the full
3410 10,28| answered that God neither rejoices nor grows angry, for to
3411 10,27| Him. Even in the ordinary relationships of life, no matter how much
3412 5,4 | the world — riches, homes, relatives, friends and all earthly
3413 Fwd,4| carried in an age of doctrinal relativity). While these kinds of women
3414 10,10| theological fiction that relativizes the ecclesial nature of
3415 10,28| acts of compassion we gain release from our sins, this does
3416 6,18| Church and has always been relentlessly resisted by the Orthodox
3417 6,8 | obligations could serve as a reliable instrument in the hands
3418 7,14| philosophies). Aquinas himself relied on Aristotle, a development
3419 1,1 | Christianity will then become a religio illicita, even as it was
3420 9,38| ta leipsana, in Latin, reliquiae, both meaning that what
3421 7,14| Anabaptists by Lutherans, he later reluctantly came to approve of the death
3422 10,21| Kings in KJV). Even more remarkably, to him was revealed all
3423 11,3 | these are mere disconnected remembrances. They are flotsam and jetsam
3424 4,12| from his wallet, the bishop reminded him that the Jehovah's Witnesses
3425 4,12| regeneration “by instructing us, reminding us, and stirring us up morally
3426 10,16| Spirit. Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto
3427 Ep | final end for the small remnant of those who are being saved,
3428 9,35| is a phase in which the remnants of Christian thinking will
3429 1,1 | the significance of the removal of the withholding power
3430 2,20| which only vengeance can remove, whether it is by crime
3431 10,21| Deut 6:13, 1 Tim 1:17), the rendering of divine honor to God alone
3432 4,12| venerating icons, the honor one renders to the images passes to
3433 7,17| aside in favor of the modern renditions. The latter ones, the street-language
3434 8,14| Kant, Bertrand Russell, and Rene” Descartes. A very significant
3435 10,14| confessions, cannot be termed renegades or heretics — that is, those
3436 10,10| returns to the unity and renounces his errors. This was the
3437 7,11| threefold denunciation and the renunciations of Satan before holy Baptism?
3438 9,18| His Person, God the Word reopened the way for men to be “at
3439 9,39| path of holiness, he still repeats, “Lord, Jesus Christ, Son
3440 9,38| by the power of the Lord repelling every evil action of their
3441 7,14| understandable to those who are not repenting.” Moreover, as a Russian
3442 8,6 | theology is bound to have repercussions upon every aspect of Christian
3443 7,14| Catholicism, he states, replaces Christ the Victor with the “
3444 4,12| and Byzantine icons are replacing innovative ones. Traditional
3445 3,18| mouth of the pope, Christ replies: “And then if any man shall
3446 11,1 | seen. Within a year of the report they gave, Vladimir and
3447 Fwd,2| by the National Catholic Reporter dated September 11, 1987,
3448 Fwd,6| Encyclopedia Britannica Yearbook reports, the Orthodox Church is
3449 10,23| and Mary's pure life was a reproach to them. Therefore, in order
3450 10,6 | of the Trinity in that it reproduces on earth the mystery of
3451 7,13| Scripture “for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction
3452 1,1 | institute self-government (republics, democracies), then the
3453 4,17| Ecumenical Councils that repudiated them — a discussion of Holy
3454 4,13| to take into account by repudiating icons depicting God the
3455 7,11| basis the no less erroneous repudiation of Sacred Tradition by the
3456 7,11| Protestantism's erroneous repudiations have as a basis the no less
3457 4,3 | worshipping idols, something repugnant to God. This outlook therefore
3458 9,15| turned out to be too weak to repulse the onslaught of the powers
3459 4,12| Byzantium's holiest relics — reputedly Christendom's finest collection).~
3460 10,20| all, we Orthodox, in our requiem prayers, do turn precisely
3461 2,20| Heresies are dangerous and require condemnation because they
3462 1,1 | the Ascension Monastery in Resaca, Georgia adds, from Constantine
3463 7,14| Church, undertake refined researches regarding some kind of essences
3464 11,3 | practiced today, bears almost no resemblance to the sacramental liturgical
3465 6,8 | things to submit without reservation, not daring to put itself
3466 4,12| reverence and love that one reserves for the Holy Cross and Holy
3467 1,1 | the Roman authority, then resident in Constantinople, the Second
3468 9,38| visible sign of God's blessing residing in their very bodies. Fr.
3469 1,11| more conciliar approach to resolving matters).~ The Orthodox
3470 1,1 | using deceit and ended by resorting to violence.~ After its
3471 11,4 | in Old Slavonic and Greek respectively).~ Some Westerners have
3472 10,28| reveal Himself in such a resplendent, radiant glory in His Son
3473 11,4 | the world, and the choir responds to each petition with Gospodi
3474 3,12| adds that the respective responses clearly demonstrate a graded
3475 6,6 | this role and its attendant responsibilities very seriously. They waged
3476 11,4 | innovation by claiming they were restoring the ancient practice of
3477 10,10| s mercies. They help to restrain moral looseness, vices and
3478 9,28| enables political order, and restrains the capacity for humanity
3479 6,16| meant that the old moral restrictions, so heartily proclaimed
3480 7,14| compromised: Roman Catholicism restricts Christianity to one man,
3481 9,42| the fall into sin and the resultant banishment from Paradise.
3482 1,1 | overthrow the antichrist, to resurrect the righteous, and to establish
3483 5,4 | demons, healing sicknesses, resurrecting the dead, and gifts of prophecy,
3484 1,1 | that a related error to the resuscitated heresy of chiliasm is the “
3485 10,26| Rather than backing up, rethinking the matter, and eradicating
3486 11,4 | that He grant them, upon retiring, repose of body and soul,
3487 7,14| plain reason, he would not retract any of his teachings. Later,
3488 1,1 | the faith, has never been retracted or disowned by the Latin
3489 9,15| wrote an entire book of retractions, in which he deferred to
3490 5,4 | avarice, irritability, wrath, revenge, amusements, fornication,
3491 7,14| pagan influence, shock waves reverberated throughout Europe and affected
3492 11,4 | the building, one normally reverences the central icon in the
3493 4,12| The veneration of icons is reverential respect or admiration, whereas
3494 4,12| this fallen world, should reverently kiss the images of the holy
3495 9,38| explanation by stating that in revering holy relics, Christians
3496 7,14| worthy of merit. (In this reversal of position, one can see
3497 Fwd,3| Christianity, the Latin Church reversed the direction of the crossbar
3498 3,5 | to be determined by papal review and approval. There is simply
3499 4,13| that that all people who revile or slander holy icons, or
3500 4,12| when a Greek bishop was reviled by one of the witnesses
3501 6,13| inserted into the Creed as it revises the words of Christ in John
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