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3502 1,1 | it will claim to be the revitalized Roman Empire), so too is
3503 7,14| basis for life, and with its revival of destructive pagan influence,
3504 10,20| both died and rose, and revived, that He might be Lord both
3505 7,11| through this means they would revivify their Church. However, the
3506 10,14| Rom 9:18), and that He rewards each according to his intentions
3507 4,10| 10.~ Rewrite in your own words the paragraph
3508 Fwd,1| this change, the author rewrote large sections of it for
3509 1,16| Christian symbol of the chi rho (XP) on the weapons and
3510 5,4 | tied them to the world — riches, homes, relatives, friends
3511 7,17| Reformers] simply opted to get rid of the books they disliked,
3512 3,11| this communion, and in this rift is contained the cause of
3513 6,16| martyrs, saints, hierarchs and right-believing Orthodox Christians, Rome
3514 Ep | failing to distinguish the right-hand way from the left. At that
3515 5,4 | Adam in Paradise, who was rightful lord over the animals and
3516 Fwd,3| the Orthodox Church can rightfully claim continuity in both
3517 1,15| not be troubled with the rigorous precepts of the law of Moses,
3518 2,33| fighter against God and a ringleader of the heresies. He was
3519 7,9 | The Old Believers (Old Ritualists is more accurate) were a
3520 2,20| heretics.~ In his book The River of Fire, Dr. Alexander Kalomiros
3521 3,20| Islamic rulers shed absolute rivers of Christian blood, and
3522 9,42| in the fall such that the RNA and DNA of living organisms
3523 1,1 | Jordanville and Hieromonk Seraphim Ro se comment on this term
3524 5,4 | life is per se the direct road to the Kingdom of Heaven.”~
3525 1,1 | planted along the sides of roads. This situation of living
3526 10,19| can be characterized as a “robber synod.” [A Letter of Orthodox
3527 4,12| this officially sponsored robbery, the Latin marauders placed
3528 5,5 | the fourteenth century. A rocky, mountainous peninsula in
3529 2,35| emphasized the respective roles of each of the Persons of
3530 6,13| love] spelled backwards is Roma). As the scholarly Blessed
3531 6,15| beginning of the “age of romance,” when fables and legends
3532 6,6 | protector after the other two Romes had fallen.~ As one writer
3533 2,6 | Bosphorus, calling this city Nea Romi (New Rome), although people
3534 4,12| eastern wall or corner of a room in which to set up an icon
3535 11,4 | private prayers and the rosary. This development did not
3536 5,8 | death [St. Demetrius of Rostov, The Great Collection of
3537 10,20| God. Nothing can revive rotten seeds, though, and prayers
3538 10,21| the voice of many angels round about the throne and the
3539 3,5 | most respected historians, roundly denounced the teaching as
3540 2,36| historical Christianity roused against itself the mobilization
3541 9,21| a harmonious whole. (0. Rousseau, “Incarnation et anthropologie
3542 9,42| the circuitous (indirect) route and attempted to recreate
3543 Fwd,5| the politically correct routine bashing of Western civilization (
3544 4,12| of assembly for prayer. A rudimentary art existed among Christians
3545 10,26| tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after
3546 6,4 | legitimacy by trying to ruin the legitimacy of Constantinople'
3547 7,11| from amidst the decaying ruins of Western Christianity,
3548 11,1 | Prince Vladimir of Kiev (ruled 980-1015) was approached
3549 11,4 | holy of holies in small rural temples.~ Leading into the
3550 1,2 | sound from Heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled
3551 8,14| Immanuel Kant, Bertrand Russell, and Rene” Descartes. A
3552 2,24| those not-wrought-by-men's-hands that have appeared miraculously.~
3553 7,2 | by the Mongols; the two sacks of Constantinople; the subjugation
3554 1,8 | The word Sacraments (Latin Sacramenta) is the term used in the
3555 10,10| believing, mutually recognizing, sacramentally united Christians founded
3556 7,13| concerning the tabernacle and sacrifices, and the prescriptions for
3557 2,20| and not man. But this is sacrilegious. The sinful man who is characterized
3558 7,17| Scribes, Pharisees and the sadducee priests, all of whom became
3559 1,1 | members of the evil coven of sadistic clergy assassins openly
3560 9,22| never separated. Even in the sadness of Great Friday, the Church
3561 4,19| was based on the Moslem sage Avicenna's commentaries
3562 7,14| a frail boat and want to sail across the sea of life,
3563 Fwd,5| recognizing a greater degree of saintliness in the modest humility and
3564 7,21| unchanging. Canons forbidding the sale of the Church's Mysteries
3565 9,39| one of the novels of J.D. Salinger, it has the mysterious property
3566 4,12| these should be given due salutation and honorable reverence [
3567 9,7 | the priest or deacon is saluting the image (or icon) of God
3568 1,13| Paul's teaching by the salvation-by-faith-and-circumcision party. So vital an issue
3569 11,4 | about the Holy Spirit as Sanctifier; about the Church as the
3570 11,3 | psychedelic vestments serving in sanctuaries surrounded by kindergarten
3571 8,14| cross symbol was devised by satanists in the Middle Ages as a
3572 2,20| scholastics teach. The matter of “satisfying the justice of God” is a
3573 5,4 | wilderness. I waited for God that saveth me” (Ps 54:8-9). Some of
3574 11,4 | is always an icon of the Saviour, and traditionally men stand
3575 1,11| Vatican in response to a scandal in the Latin Church, the
3576 11,3 | the whole world has been scandalized by the activities of certain
3577 1,1 | having come to Italy, Gaul, Scandinavia, Ireland and the entire
3578 11,1 | Judaism, the Franks and Scandinavians who adhered to Latin Christianity,
3579 11,3 | microphones, satanic rock music, scantily-clad females, and every manner
3580 5,7 | eldership has grown exceedingly scarce. It is not known to the
3581 5,7 | obtained. Regarding the present scarcity of elders, Archpriest Alexey
3582 9,42| from God as they began to scatter across the face of the earth,
3583 9,28| different languages who were scattered to the far reaches of the
3584 10,3 | the police arrived on the scene, the tortured child was
3585 7,14| Scripture.” The Russian Schema-abbot John of Valaam Monastery
3586 1,1 | Greek and the Russian. As Schema-Archimandrite Damian of the Ascension
3587 2,6 | empire in the Christian scheme made him a saint, an Equal-to-the-Apostles —
3588 1,1 | unbridled and performs his dark schemes on a world scale. No longer
3589 2,20| significance and logic in this schizoid notion of a God Who kills
3590 9,42| article, “Commentary on Scientific Creationism,” mentions that
3591 10,22| 15).~ Regarding those who scoff at the idea of prayer, Metropolitan
3592 9,42| ticks, mites, chiggers and scorpions?~ Investigation into this
3593 7,17| knife and was preparing to scrape out what he thought was
3594 7,14| entire body of Scripture from scratch. We see that every religious
3595 7,17| verses from Scripture, the scribe himself, as a child of the
3596 7,17| research into the Dead Sea Scrolls suggests the Septuagint
3597 11,1 | Seven Ecumenical Councils we scrupulously keep. As for your words,
3598 Fwd,3| themselves, but distort it and seal themselves instead with
3599 5,1 | invoked the Trinity and were sealed with the sign of the Cross,
3600 11,4 | carries people through stormy seas into a peaceful harbor.
3601 Ep | to know the times or the seasons, end-times prophecies abound,
3602 3,5 | Thus, if that individual secedes from the Church, he can
3603 3,5 | falsely (heresy), or by seceding from the unity of the Church (
3604 2,33| who at least died in a secluded place. As Arius was on his
3605 5,4 | such people wish to live in seclusion, God reveals them and they
3606 8,14| semi-Sabellianism. (Sabellius was a second-century heretic who spoke of one
3607 6,15| East and West that only secondarily spilled over into the theological
3608 7,11| meaning, or to bring out from secrecy to the public the powers
3609 3,5 | be cleared by the Vatican Secretary of State before publication)
3610 5,4 | development resulted in secularism, something that proved an
3611 9,15| justificatio prima and justificatio secunda, and the impossibility of
3612 6,15| comparatively easily in securing the subordination of these
3613 7,14| that they were guilty of sedition and blasphemy).~ What a
3614 7,14| appearance through a gradual, seductive, damaging mutation of Western
3615 7,11| the Orthodox Church. E. Seeberg, a Protestant professor
3616 9,42| I have given you every seed-bearing plant, the sowing seed which
3617 Fwd,6| laymen, and all are sincere seekers of the truth.~ Readers of
3618 1,1 | are currently living.~ The seer of mysteries, St. John the
3619 Fwd,5| tribunal.~ The world is now seething with unprecedented passions,
3620 10,27| Heaven in order to try to seize them and take them away
3621 1,1 | own prerogative, the popes seized power in the temporal sphere
3622 3,5 | However, the popes were seldom present at the Ecumenical
3623 10,23| come into the world. Her selection to be the Mother of God
3624 3,5 | completely independent and self-administered in the time of the Seven
3625 3,12| of Theotokos runs from a self-conscious uneasy acceptance to outright
3626 Ep | false accusers, without self-control, fierce, despisers of those
3627 7,14| arrogant personal opinion, and self-deception.~ Today the differing confessions
3628 2,36| presented to the world its self-defense. It answered persecutions
3629 7,14| Church, and not fall into self-deluded arrogance. [Sola Scriptura:
3630 5,4 | arduous process of monastic self-denial and renunciation in and
3631 7,14| is contrary to itself and self-destructs. Not only is sola Scriptura
3632 1,1 | by God for the decisive self-determination of the people, will be able
3633 2,19| years ago, in an act of self-emptying and abasement, God the Son
3634 10,14| views. He wrote:~ ~It is self-evident... that sincere Christians
3635 1,1 | Victor notes, a striving for self-exaltation and domination over the
3636 7,14| words of Scripture. These self-fabricated faiths will be numerous.
3637 5,4 | the nets in the peace of self-forgetfulness that precede death [My Life
3638 11,4 | finds his perfection and self-fulfillment in worship.” Beyond this
3639 1,1 | everywhere nations institute self-government (republics, democracies),
3640 11,3 | we have seen a host of self-invented, irreverent, subjective
3641 7,21| Pharisaical justice and self-justification which do not save man [The
3642 4,12| egoism and powerfulness, his self-perception in the surrounding material
3643 5,4 | where they lead a life of self-renunciation and deprivation, one spent
3644 1,1 | remarkable steadfastness and self-sacrifice of the Christian martyrs
3645 6,6 | Tsarism itself fell in a self-sacrificial war to protect Orthodox
3646 10,21| fearless confession, by self-sacrificing service to the Church, or
3647 7,14| spiritual enjoyment and self-satisfaction. It is therefore repentance —
3648 2,14| Scripture in the face of some self-willed, private interpretations
3649 7,14| humanism has been called the self-worship of man rather than God.~
3650 9,39| rather than a solitary, selfish one. As noted, deification
3651 1,1 | simultaneously with absolute selflessness, must be acknowledged as
3652 6,16| money. As the advocates and sellers of indulgences — including
3653 Fwd,5| To no one's surprise, semantic confusion in this area has
3654 6,10| filioque formula adopted at the semi-Iconoclast council at Frankfurt in
3655 1,1 | call the Latin Church a semi-military organization that has used
3656 8,14| Sabellius reborn, or rather some semi-Sabellian monster,” as St. Photius
3657 9,42| has within it the fruit of seminal seed shall be to you for
3658 Fwd,5| growing number of Christian seminaries, and the same orders are
3659 10,23| of consanguinity. As the Semitic language lacked a word for
3660 1,11| bishops. As Bishop Alexander Semonov-Tian-Shansky writes in this regard:~ ~
3661 7,14| always, and by all” (quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus
3662 10,10| high office like a judge, senator or governor. Orthodoxy teaches
3663 6,18| to the chief Roman clergy senatorial distinctions and honors.
3664 9,7 | greatest of which is His sending His Only-Begotten Son to
3665 3,18| assign the presidency to the senior bishop who is Orthodox.
3666 7,14| Many people... who have senselessly and presumptuously rejected
3667 3,5 | Peter would not have seemed sensible to the early Church. Had
3668 9,38| depart with great happiness, sensing an easing of your conscience....
3669 Fwd,6| God Himself granted a more sensitive, keen and impressionable
3670 7,14| popular attitudes that reflect sensitivity to “multicultural diversity”
3671 4,12| striving toward human, earthly sensuality.~ ~That which the ancient
3672 2,20| and that all were to be sentenced to death for Adam's sin,
3673 4,12| oftentimes crudely sensual and sentimental elements would creep into
3674 11,4 | reckoning is based on the sequence of events in the New Testament.
3675 11,4 | contrition-evoking sobriety and spiritual serenity which completely separates
3676 5,7 | to foretell.~ Archpriest Sergei Lebedev speaks of the ability
3677 5,5 | consists entirely of monastic settlements, some twenty of them, and
3678 2,20| reaching deification, and they setup a barrier between man and
3679 11,4 | are the altar Cross and a seven-branched candelabrum, the altar fans,
3680 11,4 | Concerning the weekly or seven-day cycle, on Sunday, the Church
3681 7,17| number of translators was seventy-two).~ Among the translators
3682 1,1 | reeducation, “ where they will be severely tortured in an effort to
3683 11,4 | relics of a saint (bone) is sewn into the reverse side, a
3684 11,3 | near-blasphemous inanities, their lurid sexual escapades, their crass “
3685 9,23| darkened and the earth was shaken, when the graves were opened
3686 Fwd,6| offer only easy, trivial and shallow solutions to the deeper
3687 Ep | from women due to their shamelessness in dress and style of hair.
3688 5,8 | that among the events that shaped the history of Europe, a
3689 11,4 | world. (As these latter two shapes are inconvenient for the
3690 6,8 | Fr. Victor notes that too sharp a line between the clergy
3691 9,42| environment [Cf. Not by Chance! Shattering the Modern Theory of Evolution,
3692 11,4 | when Christ, through the shedding of His blood and suffering
3693 9,21| enshrines that element of sheer joy in the Resurrection
3694 2,6 | have to contend with false shepherds or wolves in sheep's clothing (
3695 2,6 | of the world’s life was shifted from ancient Rome to Constantinople,
3696 11,3 | them dead.... The use of shills, pitchmen, phony sick people
3697 10,28| cometh out of the East and shineth even unto the West, so shall
3698 9,35| Age proselytizer, actress Shirley MacLaine: “Man has existed
3699 7,14| denomination or minister, they shop around until they find one
3700 11,3 | washed upon the modern shore.~Many Protestants may well
3701 6,18| complete a witness, Rome is shorn of all defense in its papal
3702 Fwd,4| given for cited texts. This shortcoming could not be emended as
3703 5,2 | guided them and filled their shortcomings, leading them to the truth?~
3704 11,4 | times, either in longer or shorter form, in all the services.
3705 1,1 | the Church” fell upon the shoulders of the Roman authority,
3706 2,20| Instead, he begins with a shred of truth, labels it “Christian,”
3707 4,17| the textbook gives short shrift to the Fathers, this subject
3708 6,7 | earth.” Even so, Rome's shrill demand for submission was
3709 7,14| wisdom of the Church and to shun their own as useless. Only
3710 10,21| Church, yet Protestantism shuns prayer to the saints.~ Protopresbyter
3711 7,11| the light to the ends of Siberia? How can a Church be called
3712 5,4 | and the cruel cold of the Siberian winters could not harm them.
3713 10,23| wide meaning, from that of siblings to cousins, and also stretching
3714 1,1 | papacy's most effective siege engine, which operates as
3715 10,26| renowned ascetic Catherine of Sienna, affirmed that the Mother
3716 11,4 | there is neither sorrow or sighing.” (In the writings of the
3717 6,10| in a formal way was not.~ Significantly, not only did Rome condemn
3718 11,4 | As the holy of holies signified then, so now the altar represents
3719 1,1 | of an indefinite number, signifying the long period until the
3720 9,26| the virgins lacked. The similarities between the two are striking.
3721 2,22| according to the Fathers, the simplest of senses to alight upon
3722 Fwd,4| of this book. Any further simplification of the answers, though,
3723 2,35| Son, His two (dyo, duo) simultaneous natures, was the work of
3724 10,20| on earth people who might sincerely pray to God for them, and
3725 5,7 | thoughtlessness and even sinful-ness. Fortune-telling is forbidden
3726 1,15| Peter was not asked for his single-minded decision, as if he were
3727 1,1 | Roman Empire), so too is a single-world religion to emerge. This
3728 5,4 | first they left the world singly, and then in loosely-knit
3729 11,4 | places, the congregation sings as well, at least the Lord'
3730 10,7 | is therefore perfect and sinless, yet its individual members
3731 10,26| which repeatedly mention the sinless-ness of the “one Mediator between
3732 5,8 | spreading of the true faith.~ Sir Dimitry Obolensky, professor
3733 7,17| book of Joshua the son of Sirach are numbered together with
3734 7,14| example, his frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. In art, these new
3735 2,6 | on Mount Sinai over the site of the burning bush, near
3736 2,6 | constructed were over the holy sites in Palestine where Christ
3737 6,6 | environment in which it is situated, be it Russia, Greece, China,
3738 11,1 | taken place (it would occur sixty-six years ahead), the Roman
3739 7,9 | regard Sacred Tradition with skepticism, even disdain. Part of the
3740 3,18| on public view from the skies, in the oceans, and on the
3741 1,16| conquer emblazoned in the sky. With this vision, Constantine
3742 7,11| Tradition that causes a slackening of life and the gradual
3743 7,11| Posing these questions to the slanderer of Tradition, St. Basil
3744 10,23| Francisco writes that the Jewish slanderers of the Mother of Jesus soon
3745 2,20| instrument of the devil's slandering God? What means did the
3746 9,28| not receive the spirit of slavery... but you received the
3747 5,8 | Christianization of the Balkans and the Slavo-Varangian state of Rus' stand as supreme
3748 7,14| Eutychius and other heretics slay themselves eternally, having
3749 11,4 | of the devil during their sleep.~The Midnight Office is
3750 10,21| all-night vigil.... Then, after sleeping a little, some of us suddenly
3751 5,8 | chance to repent after he slew his brother Abel (Gen 4:
3752 2,20| theology. He first introduced a slight alteration in theology which,
3753 1,1 | for Rome, promulgated the slogan that the end justifies the
3754 6,16| faith of Western Christians slowly began to change and deviate
3755 5,5 | them, and a large number of smaller houses and hermits' cells.
3756 9,39| who were stricken with a smallpox epidemic; his teaching the
3757 9,42| soon as it was broken and smashed, deep darkness fell on all
3758 5,7 | unstable. However, as Professor Smirnov notes in his doctrinal dissertation
3759 Fwd,1| ago by someone named Joe Smith? For those with more than
3760 1,6 | Theologian and bishop of Smyrna (+156). These epistles contain
3761 3,5 | Church as blasphemous, as a “snare of Satan,” and as an “imitation
3762 9,15| entitled Concerning Infants Snatched Away Prematurely. In it,
3763 11,4 | always a contrition-evoking sobriety and spiritual serenity which
3764 7,3 | are all sick to death of socialists and progressives alike with
3765 Fwd,5| is not grammatically or socially contextualized, it refers
3766 1,1 | West can be spoken of as a societas Christiana. Fr. Michael
3767 9,35| that today, TV is a tool of socio-religious indoctrination through which
3768 5,6 | West came to assume a vast sociological range of functions, Catholic
3769 Fwd,5| society, it is one whose sociopolitical program should be examined.~
3770 5,8 | of righteous souls. The Sodomites did not know the one true
3771 7,14| and trembling so as not to soil any aspect of it through
3772 11,4 | to do so.~ Archpriest D. Sokolof explains that in general
3773 11,4 | Universe. Archpriest D. Sokolov also explains that the entrance
3774 8,14| Vatican Council to show their solidarity with the forerunner forces
3775 6,16| these false doctrines became solidly established in Roman Catholicism,
3776 5,7 | they were sought out in the solitudes of many lands by people
3777 3,1 | Spirit from above (Wisdom of Solomon 9:17).~ The same Fr. Vladimir
3778 3,18| the Russian monks of the Solovki Monastery handed down the
3779 Fwd,6| easy, trivial and shallow solutions to the deeper questions
3780 6,16| the altar,” he remarked somberly and helplessly.... Nothing
3781 9,42| before Him in the hope of someday receiving forgiveness and
3782 9,28| you received the Spirit of sonship. When we cry, Abba! Father!
3783 7,14| perishing in the waves of vain sophistries [Fr. John, Christ in Our
3784 11,1 | queer. A very grimy and sordid Presbyterian mission hall
3785 10,28| love and light will be a sore affliction. For them, God'
3786 5,4 | substantial wealth to him. Sorrowing over their death, he went
3787 10,3 | police, accustomed to all sorts of crimes, “were not able
3788 4,12| that Byzantine icons are sought-after throughout the world, even
3789 Fwd,5| Orthodoxy, I discovered its soul-stunning beauty and power. I fell
3790 4,12| ask you why you pray to soulless icons, what profit you derive
3791 3,11| generally noted for the soundness of its teaching and its
3792 7,2 | Constantinople; the subjugation of southeastern Europe, the Middle East
3793 7,11| Tartars and the Indians; in a southerly direction, putting up the
3794 9,42| seed-bearing plant, the sowing seed which is on the whole
3795 10,22| righteous, the Lord often spared people who had sinned. Moses
3796 10,16| priest and accompanied by specified prayers, acts in the same
3797 7,11| married) — but nowhere does it specify the rite of carrying out
3798 5,1 | repeated denunciations of this spectacle in the homilies of St. John
3799 10,26| not remain an indifferent spectator to the glory of the Mother
3800 Ep | Testament Scriptures, and the specter of that cataclysm now haunts
3801 3,17| theology are two antipodes on a spectrum of belief about the nature
3802 7,17| only fourteen variations of spelling. However, all this uniformity
3803 3,18| article).~ To these evil words spewing forth from the mouth of
3804 9,35| ideas have permeated all spheres of society and education.
3805 10,16| bless a mixture of oil and spices, or chrism, which, when
3806 9,42| arachnids such as poisonous spiders, ticks, mites, chiggers
3807 6,15| West that only secondarily spilled over into the theological
3808 1,1 | centuries, Christian blood was spilt throughout the lands of
3809 8,14| ab uno principio et unica spiratione). Although this explanation
3810 4,16| deified matter and made it Spirit-bearing. If flesh so became a vehicle
3811 Fwd,5| writes in her book More Spirited than Lions:~ ~I was still
3812 4,12| their features refined, spiritualized.~ Western icons patterned
3813 11,4 | dogma and of morals. This is splendidly expressed in the hymn (or
3814 1,1 | Protestant Reformation, which splintered Western Christianity into
3815 3,18| will fission human history, splitting the immediate past from
3816 10,26| shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through philosophy
3817 4,12| whose apprehension is not spoiled by [evil] doctrines a representation
3818 4,12| plunder. In this officially sponsored robbery, the Latin marauders
3819 5,7 | Hermitage, explained, the Lord spontaneously reveals to elders the past,
3820 6,15| popes only as tendencies, as sporadic phenomena, now wholly takes
3821 9,42| pathogens in general; of sporozoan parasites, blood protozoans
3822 4,12| they went about a wanton spree of murder, pillage and sacrilege.
3823 7,11| its importance and benefit springs from the relationship that
3824 2,6 | in its place a new seed sprouted later on. Instead, He used
3825 9,39| to build the mission at Spruce Island; his digging a trench
3826 6,15| proved without difficulty the spuriousness of the documents that were
3827 1,1 | Christian primacy rests squarely on the Divinity of Christ.
3828 2,6 | started to grow but was squashed, and in its place a new
3829 7,14| two-edged sword by which they stab themselves to eternal destruction (
3830 5,8 | Empire was to provide a calm, stable and relatively peaceful
3831 6,8 | captured and burned at the stake by the Latin Church).~ In
3832 1,1 | impaled on thousands of stakes planted along the sides
3833 4,12| carrying in itself the stamp of sin and attracting to
3834 7,17| absolutely nothing. Only standardization of text was achieved, yet
3835 2,6 | that helped safeguard and standardize the Christian beliefs and
3836 1,1 | for “the foundation of God standeth sure” (2 Tim 2:19). As the
3837 5,7 | elder's mind gives this startling information because he is
3838 10,22| from all nationalities, stations in life and positions. Therefore,
3839 1,1 | came to Rome, how long he stayed, or what function of leadership,
3840 6,16| their sins, and each soul stays there as much time as it
3841 7,14| center of the universe in His stead. For this reason, humanism
3842 1,1 | although the remarkable steadfastness and self-sacrifice of the
3843 11,1 | only sorrow and a dreadful stench. Their religion is not good.
3844 10,9 | the Church is one?~ Alexei Stepanovich Khomiakov, an influential
3845 10,23| have entered into marriage (stepbrothers and stepsisters); or if
3846 11,4 | deacons, Saints Philip and Stephen, are on them, or else the
3847 10,23| someone they regarded as their stepmother, or at least they did not
3848 2,33| on his way to church, he stepped into a public latrine, and
3849 10,23| marriage (stepbrothers and stepsisters); or if their parents are
3850 7,14| Scholasticism thus became a sterile framework more suited to
3851 Fwd,2| rebuked Peter “to his face” sternly and publicly, and that as
3852 Fwd,6| perdition is accomplished.~Steven Kovacevich~September 1,
3853 6,15| Pepin the Short, the chief steward of the Frankish kings, to
3854 9,42| him, they were masters and stewards of creation. Animals sensed
3855 7,21| that as part of a bishop's stewardship over the Church, when there
3856 10,22| holy man and pardoned the stiff-necked people (Exodus 32:9-12).
3857 7,14| Western theology and were the stimulus to the rise of humanism
3858 11,4 | Passover, according to the stipulation of the Seventh Apostolic
3859 11,3 | to Hollywood, is all now stock-in-trade for these people [pp. 20-
3860 4,12| treasures and monuments were stolen from churches and carried
3861 6,18| he speaks of believers as stones, and of Jesus as the rock “
3862 11,4 | The table is also used to store various sacred vessels,
3863 11,4 | about the Church as the storehouse of the grace of the Holy
3864 1,1 | present calm before the storm of the one-world government,
3865 11,4 | helmsman carries people through stormy seas into a peaceful harbor.
3866 3,17| stating that the antithetical strands of these two figures and
3867 5,1 | Byzantine life and upon all strata of society, from the clergy
3868 1,1 | not allow the people to stray from these principles; it
3869 5,6 | of monastic life but has strayed far from the original spirit
3870 7,17| renditions. The latter ones, the street-language s, are at best “impious,
3871 4,12| Christian blood ran in the streets of Constantinople as a massive
3872 9,38| bodies of the saints to strengthen the faith of Christians.
3873 7,14| Even the genre of biography strengthened man's faith in himself.~ ~
3874 7,9 | Tradition confirms and strengthens them). St. Paul likewise
3875 7,11| of Apostolic Tradition, stressing its values and taking measures
3876 7,11| as not missionary, which stretched our her hands to the Far
3877 10,23| siblings to cousins, and also stretching to members of the same tribe.
3878 7,21| modernist deviation from the strictest standards of Orthodoxy.
3879 11,3 | necessarily endorse the strictures on Western worship which
3880 8,14| teaching about the Holy Spirit strikes against the dogma concerning
3881 7,21| he may apply a canon in a stringent way for specific pastoral
3882 7,21| an ethical, practical or structural character. This distinction
3883 5,7 | sometimes speak thus about these strugglers for God: “Here he guessed
3884 7,3 | change anything and have stuck to the old Liturgies [Quoted
3885 9,39| and buying books for his students. The mystical and practical
3886 Fwd,6| women alike — if you have studied Church history in your spiritual
3887 4,9 | controversy. St. Theodore of Studium (+826) defended them when
3888 1,1 | towers on top of which the stylites lived and practiced their
3889 11,4 | much more natural and less stylized than in the West, where
3890 6,6 | Greece, China, Japan, or sub-Saharan Africa.~ Russia did not
3891 7,14| has always done-divide, subdivide and divide again [The Pearl,
3892 7,14| of Normandy to invade and subdue England, As a consequence
3893 7,14| One must have a heart subdued by piety, a purified mind,
3894 2,20| is unnoticeably led into subjection by the devil, who is falsehood
3895 7,14| psychoanalysts, Protestant scholars subjectively choose the “facts” and “
3896 7,14| He explains that with a subjectivity that surpasses that of the
3897 3,20| Mecca, Mohammed's followers subjugated Egypt, Syria, Palestine
3898 7,2 | sacks of Constantinople; the subjugation of southeastern Europe,
3899 4,12| recall them, we think pure, sublime thoughts and experience
3900 9,42| humanity, the old world is submerged under the waters, only a
3901 7,14| aside from his self-will and submits himself to God's will by
3902 1,1 | Catholicism, although not before submitting them to infinitely gruesome
3903 8,14| fact (if not in theory) subordinated the Holy Spirit to the Son
3904 6,9 | only to his ecclesiastical subordinates, but to secular rulers as
3905 7,17| language or that convey a substantially different meaning generally
3906 6,15| taking measures in order to substantiate their authority, if not
3907 6,15| collection categorically in substantiation of their rights to supremacy
3908 1,2 | Andreyev adds the following substantive explanation concerning the
3909 10,23| virgin, the translators substituted a young woman. Through this
3910 7,17| religion of the antichrist), substitutes the ambiguous phrase young
3911 7,11| unalterable; no one can add or subtract anything from them, or transform
3912 Fwd,4| practices, and who have now subverted the entire civilized world
3913 6,6 | very seriously. They waged successive (and usually successful)
3914 2,19| immediately united to Him by successively removing all obstacles.
3915 9,42| to be, seemingly, if, and such-like. The famous French anthropologist
3916 10,23| the paps which Thou hast sucked” (Lk 11:27).~ Elder Epiphanies
3917 9,22| hymn sees in the Innocent Sufferer not only the suffering humanity
3918 10,20| not been able to open up sufficiently on earth, they gradually
3919 Fwd,4| otherwise make valuable suggestions in matters of format and
3920 7,14| only choose to use those suit them, discarding the rest
3921 1,1 | century, the Ottoman Turkish Sultanate began to conquer the Balkans,
3922 Fwd,5| humanity,” all of them will summarily be dealt with by a world
3923 10,16| this occupation is aptly summarized in St. Dositheus’ description
3924 6,17| in the prefatory notes' summation of the Great Schism. The
3925 7,14| the wise of the world.~ Summing up the entire alteration
3926 7,14| Holy Scriptures are the summit of the Tradition of the
3927 11,4 | Gethsemane. The service summons the faithful to be ready
3928 11,4 | the entire night, until sunrise.~ In addition to the daily
3929 11,4 | today, the service began at sunset and continued through the
3930 11,4 | lower bar, or footboard (supendaneum in Latin), was used by the
3931 1,1 | itself as an ecumenical “super-church,” its infinite hatred of
3932 10,25| by the Roman Catholics: a super-human creature, one without a
3933 6,16| commandments (praecepta), offered superabundant, supererogatory satisfaction
3934 11,1 | wall.... And in this two superb old priests and a deacon,
3935 6,16| supererogatory good works (opera supererogatonis). From them, a certain quantity
3936 9,29| an empty moralism, in a superficiality [“From the Bookshelf: The
3937 7,14| interpreting Scripture becomes superfluous when every Protestant individual
3938 9,28| inspired prophecy; in the superhuman strength of the martyrs,
3939 7,11| of Christians under the supervision of the leaders of the Churches.
3940 7,14| into thinking that they can supplant God's revelation with human
3941 7,14| whereas Protestantism supplants God the Word with the Word
3942 7,11| Church, which comprises a supplement to the Holy Scriptures.
3943 10,20| the souls, for whom the supplication is put up, while [the Holy
3944 5,5 | control it, and litanies and supplications were of no avail either
3945 1,11| Church and it is this that supplies her with enduring strength
3946 10,18| pope is greatly mistaken in supposing that we consider the ecclesiastical
3947 8,14| to the Holy Trinity was suppressed. God's name was dropped
3948 11,4 | domination by the Turks and the suppression at the hands of the Mongols,
3949 10,10| between themselves. The supra-confessional unification (the “ecumenical
3950 10,10| from Orthodoxy; He will surely take into account their
3951 1,1 | And for the quickest and surest annihilation of Russia,
3952 10,10| taken all together, they far surpass the Christian world in the
3953 7,14| with a subjectivity that surpasses that of the most speculative
3954 7,14| theology to be a development surpassing the theology of the Fathers,
3955 6,16| the pope, of the Savior’s surplus merits and the supererogatory
3956 3,5 | various Churches.... What has surprised me the most, and what moreover
3957 9,12| fellowship with God is the surrender of His will and the conformity
3958 7,14| wonderful aura began to surround men of artistic genius.
3959 11,1 | worship in much more humble surroundings than the Church of the Holy
3960 7,21| with the pagan culture that surrounds them, one of the four signs
3961 2,5 | up with matters of simple survival. Such is the Orthodox Church —
3962 9,35| available, the most naive and susceptible group. The last and most
3963 2,33| bishop who had to receive him suspected that his repentance was
3964 9,12| Orthodox idea of synergy with suspicion since they feel it ascribes
3965 9,42| its fruits. Thus, man is sustained with anguish and labor.
3966 9,42| confirm that early man's sustenance was a diet of carbohydrates,
3967 Fwd,4| probably not the belching, swaggering women who demand to be on
3968 2,6 | have it — an attempt to sway the Christian Church towards
3969 10,28| for that would mean He is swayed by pleasure.... He is good,
3970 11,1 | was forced to fight the Swedes in 1240 and the Teutonic
3971 10,26| renowned fourteenth-century Swedish nun Bridget spoke in her
3972 11,4 | In the Church are all our sweetest hopes and expectations,
3973 9,42| not fall by itself but was swept along to decay by Adam and
3974 6,15| the East to himself in one swoop. But he did not succeed
3975 7,14| order of death, a two-edged sword by which they stab themselves
3976 1,1 | means necessary, including swordpoint***. This policy is fundamental
3977 1,1 | Church affairs by appointing sycophantic hierarchs (often secret
3978 1,1 | deed. One such decree, the Syllabus of Errors propagated by
3979 7,14| Western minds, all of its syllogisms — whether based on Scripture
3980 7,19| synodikon. Thus, there is a symbolical tome and a synodical provision,
3981 11,4 | Christ, while two domes symbolize His two nature: divine and
3982 10,23| translators were found (Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion) who made new
3983 Ep | removed; and many other symptoms as well.~ In view of these
3984 9,10| synergia in Greek, is from syn (with) and ergon (work;
3985 7,17| sacred books from all the synagogues of the world and replaced
3986 9,28| place of the old Passover [Synaxarion of the Lenten Triodion and
3987 9,42| related to the fall. A recent Synaxis Press article, “Commentary
3988 7,14| hodgepodge of innovations and syncretism, ecumenism drowns out all
3989 9,10| work; whence synergic, synergetic, synergism, &c.), and it
3990 9,10| term synergy?~ Synergy, or synergia in Greek, is from syn (with)
3991 9,10| and ergon (work; whence synergic, synergetic, synergism, &
3992 9,11| We are fellow-workers [synergoi] with God (1 Cor. 3:9).~ ~
3993 7,19| a symbolical tome and a synodical provision, and moreover,
3994 2,15| received the title Oikoumenkie Synodos (Ecumenical Synods), from
3995 7,11| innovation and novelty are synonymous with heresy, for the faith
3996 6,9 | understandings which were often synthesized at the General Councils,
3997 10,20| the Armenians, Ethiopians, Syrians, Copts, Jacobites, and others.
3998 9,42| R. Andree, H. Usener and T.G. Frazer). In these, it is
3999 9,38| to holy relics (in Greek, ta leipsana, in Latin, reliquiae,
4000 9,20| assumes that it was Mount Tabor). The second great manifestation
4001 1,1 | he turned to a different tactic: heresies. As can be observed
4002 6,18| the intimidating coercive tactics that Pope Pius IX used all
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