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4003 6,17| of the Great Schism and taints it, for its author projects
4004 1,1 | this course notes that the tale of the Uniate movement in
4005 9,42| ate that produce strong, tall, full of stature and powerful.
4006 6,10| apparently permissible, tampering with the authoritative text
4007 8,14| as from one principle” (tanquam ab uno principio et unica
4008 9,35| essence and one's ability to tap into this godhood-of-self
4009 7,14| Prior to its spreading like tares in the Enlightenment period,
4010 6,6 | last remaining vestiges of Tartar suzerainty. God, it seemed,
4011 7,11| blessings of the Gospel to the Tartars and the Indians; in a southerly
4012 11,4 | atmosphere of constant expectation of death. Orthodoxy's divine
4013 11,3 | crudities and vulgarities, their tawdry use of Holy Scripture, their
4014 4,12| meaning that he should tear up all these pictures, as
4015 7,17| Hebrew community was saved by technical means (an explanation will
4016 5,4 | monasticism?~ Today in the “television generation,” very little
4017 11,1 | Christianity was best suited to the temperament of the Russians and that
4018 9,28| goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no
4019 9,35| which the serpent could only tempt mankind with, the following
4020 5,8 | us? That is the word of a tempter. AS if you do not know that
4021 6,2 | in spite of his bold and tenacious efforts to do so, he ended
4022 11,4 | also by the penitential and tender verses of the Octoechos [“
4023 Fwd,6| gifted with more warmhearted tenderness than men, who are coarse
4024 6,17| rationalistic scholars, tends to ascribe too much importance
4025 10,7 | condition as a state of tension in which the Church exists
4026 4,12| sanctuary, in the form of a tent. Inside the tabernacle's
4027 Fwd,5| professors have even been denied tenure for not using the new politically
4028 3,5 | Until the ritual was terminated by Pope John Paul I, when
4029 9,42| cockroaches, boll weevils, termites, locusts, wasps, yellow
4030 7,14| temporal power, one with territorial aims. William the Conqueror'
4031 5,8 | people of the extensive territories to the north of the Black
4032 1,1 | him by means of tyrannical terror, every bishop having full
4033 1,1 | and the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States).
4034 3,5 | Constantinople), wrote some terse words to the latter, warning
4035 11,1 | the Swedes in 1240 and the Teutonic Knights in 1242 to prevent
4036 4,12| Resurrection, the holy disciple Thaddeus of the seventy went to Edessa
4037 11,4 | the sun. In this service, thanks is given to God for the
4038 2,19| 106].~ ~Concerning the Theanthropos (God-Man) Christ and His
4039 11,4 | they introduce something theatrical into the sacred realm, and
4040 1,16| the first woman martyr Thecla, the pious Russian prince
4041 Fwd,3| in their hands which is theirs, but which is universal
4042 4,8 | At that time, the Empress Theodora and her son Michael ordained
4043 10,23| 11:27).~ Elder Epiphanies Theodoropoulos (+1989) gives further reasons
4044 2,9 | 9.~ Emperor Theodosius carried this toleration
4045 10,23| found (Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion) who made new translations
4046 7,14| off from the other four theologically more sophisticated Patriarchates
4047 3,4 | lopsidedness in their respective theologies. One should be extremely
4048 7,14| knowledge of God and to theologize with divine inspiration (
4049 6,13| As the scholarly Blessed Theophylact of Ochrid noted in the twelfth
4050 Fwd,5| battalions of self-appointed theorists, “experts,” political agitators
4051 10,14| heretical branch theory.~ Theorizing with regard to those outside
4052 10,23| with a hymn or verse (the Theotokion) that honors her.~ ~
4053 9,38| the faith of Christians. There-foe, as to the attacks that
4054 | thereof
4055 6,16| of supererogatory merits (thesarus meritorium), which is at
4056 7,11| seek no further [On 2 Thessalonians, Homily 4, PG 62:488; emphasis
4057 10,28| Again, it will appear “as a thief in the night” (1 Thes 5:
4058 4,12| mouths,” “thick arms,” “fat thighs,” and the like. He remarks
4059 2,35| distortions of heretics. Thirdly, they formulated numerous
4060 9,35| According to a recent poll, two thirds of Americans believe in
4061 11,4 | the nine ranks of angels. Thirteen domes call to mind Christ
4062 5,7 | his life (from eighteen to thirty-five) living as a desert anchorite
4063 1,11| in conformity with the Thirty-Fourth Canon of the Holy Apostles.~ ~
4064 2,15| in accordance with the Thirty-Seventh Canon of the Holy Apostles.
4065 1,1 | Heaven. Instead, it became this-worldly and pointed them to the
4066 11,1 | sits down, looks hither and thither like one possessed, and
4067 5,4 | the case of St. Mark of Thrace, he lived for more than
4068 1,1 | condemns false beliefs that threaten it, it does not condemn
4069 1,1 | Innumerable misfortunes are threatening us from all sides. Why?
4070 10,28| the eternal torment that threatens sinners will have no end.
4071 11,4 | corresponds to one of these three-hour divisions. Fr. Seraphim
4072 11,4 | Trinity in Unity” — the Three-in-One Divine Being. The Theotokia,
4073 Ep | that we are at the very threshold of the end of the ages.
4074 4,12| Church), after Protestants threw icons out of their churches
4075 5,4 | passions and vices that thrive in the world. After this
4076 5,4 | quickly spread and greatly thrived in Russia, but it met its
4077 5,4 | molten lead poured down their throats, for their Christian faith
4078 6,6 | themselves were at last throwing off the last remaining vestiges
4079 11,4 | the Cross of the Lord. On Thursday, the Holy Apostles and St.
4080 9,42| such as poisonous spiders, ticks, mites, chiggers and scorpions?~
4081 10,22| 20: 38). There is also a tight bond of unity between all
4082 11,4 | explaining the Last Judgment, he tilted the footplate to signify
4083 9,39| mention his carrying heavy timbers to build the mission at
4084 Fwd,1| ancient faith that the popular Time-Life series on the great religions
4085 11,4 | worship has an unhurried and timeless quality about it, something
4086 4,12| honorable reverence [Greek: timetike proskynesis], not indeed
4087 8,6 | of the Christian faith, a tiny difference in Trinitarian
4088 11,4 | after the Jewish celebration of Passover. This reckoning
4089 5,5 | Sea and culminates at its tip in a peak 6,670 feet in
4090 Fwd,2| Fathers, he or she touches the tips of the thumb and first two
4091 Fwd,1| in the New Testament (cf. Titus and 1 and 2 Timothy).~ There
4092 Fwd,4| 1180 Orthodox Way, Liberty, TN 37095-4366~ ~As noted, the
4093 6,17| promoted by the popes and their toadies.” [The Orthodox Church and
4094 5,8 | good things without pain or toil, they would never come to
4095 11,4 | church itself facing east, in token that Christian worshipers
4096 11,4 | in Damascus, Japanese in Tokyo, Finish in Helsinki, and
4097 9,35| good for achieving mutual tolerance and love. Since the lie
4098 Fwd,5| in the son who wrote many tomes of learned theology, much
4099 11,4 | plain chant with its eight tones in their ecclesiastical
4100 9,35| explain that today, TV is a tool of socio-religious indoctrination
4101 11,3 | they have been denied the tools of the faith that the historical [
4102 7,17| the books they had (the Torah, Prophets and Psalms) and
4103 1,1 | Christ, and as a result, the torch of faithfulness to Christ
4104 4,12| notorious greed for booty, they tore to pieces the altar and
4105 Fwd,6| in the most difficult and tormenting conditions, and which prepares
4106 5,8 | the following words to his tormentors:~ ~The Lord... forbade [
4107 2,36| and dogmas; the continual torrent of nagging criticism with
4108 9,38| every evil action of their tortuous realm. For the miracle-working
4109 1,1 | be enslaved in Communist totalitarian police states that sought
4110 10,6 | There is unity, but never totalitarianism. The word catholic, when
4111 3,5 | Universe, and Imperator Totius Mundi (Emperor of the Entire
4112 11,3 | frivolous, internalized, “touchy-feely” entertainments on the other.~ ~
4113 11,1 | by proclamation in 1054, tout court. Instead, the schism
4114 1,1 | model for the minaret (the towers on top of which the stylites
4115 Fwd,3| the crossbar and started tracing it from left to right, the
4116 5,1 | the singing of hymns, how trade contracts invoked the Trinity
4117 9,42| culture began to develop. Trades appeared, and machinery
4118 9,29| a periodical of Orthodox traditionalism, the editor Mary Mansur
4119 1,1 | police in cassocks) who traffic in the evil ecumenical movement
4120 6,16| including the popes, who trafficked in them, were guided by
4121 11,3 | Lutherans and Episcopalians (and tragically, many Americanized Roman
4122 Ep | despisers of those who are good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers
4123 9,42| the extent that harmful traits started to emerge in certain
4124 6,2 | Rome under Augustus and Trajan, and it still saw the empire
4125 4,12| pleasure evoked by it must transcend that of mere esthetics.
4126 2,17| express God, and that they transcended philosophy by means of apophatic
4127 7,17| working with mistakes of transcription, they could not arrive at
4128 Fwd,3| hands upon a layman without transferring any sort of grace to him,
4129 Fwd,6| Orthodox Christianity, which transforms men and women and gives
4130 5,8 | incorrupt; however, if he transgressed it, he would not be permitted
4131 5,8 | history, God came to the transgressor Cain to give him a chance
4132 11,4 | of their first tasks to translate Orthodox service books into
4133 7,17| God-Receiver. As he was occupied in translating the sacred books from Hebrew
4134 7,14| Ilarion Troitsky (+1929), the translator's preface notes that Protestantism
4135 4,12| 76]. (The word icon is a transliteration of the Greek eikon. In Greek
4136 7,21| from it, she is able to transmit the divine teachings of
4137 5,7 | demons, and act as direct transmitters of God's will for all who
4138 7,11| followed the vital principle of transmitting it without modernization,
4139 Fwd,4| eliminates the possibility of transparency.~ To the women readers of
4140 4,12| constructed a tabernacle, a transportable sanctuary, in the form of
4141 9,15| 5: 19), one “groaning in travail” (Rom 8:22); all are born
4142 9,42| whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now” (
4143 4,12| takes a rest during one's travels, one should determine the
4144 11,1 | Holy Orthodoxy. Russia treasured this holy faith throughout
4145 Ep | in the monasteries, those treasuries of piety and grace.... The
4146 10,28| in the blessed! [Mystic Treatises].~ ~C. Parousia is the Greek
4147 5,6 | hand, a perfect therapeutic treatment exists, consisting of purification,
4148 11,3 | approaches an earthly king, he treats him with fear and trembling
4149 6,17| the external events — what treaty was signed, or the economic
4150 9,39| Spruce Island; his digging a trench to contain a wildfire that
4151 9,3 | Testament, the plurality of the Tri-Hypostatic God is more explicitly revealed
4152 9,3 | the Holy Trinity, to God's Tri-Personal Being.~ Protopresbyter Michael
4153 11,4 | Particularly the so-called Triadica (Trinitarian hymns), in
4154 Fwd,6| 1998 edition of the Chicago Tribune noted that “within the last
4155 7,17| 284-247 BC, Judea was a tributary of the Egyptian king, and
4156 7,11| philosophy, nor some kind of trickery, but is the word of God
4157 9,42| organism are the result of “triggers” or “cues” which a “biological
4158 2,19| comments:~ ~Though men were triply separated from God — by
4159 3,5 | Caesarea in Palestine, Tripoli and Corinth. If one were
4160 4,12| along a small diptych or triptych icon. When one stops for
4161 9,28| Moreover, introducing the Trisagion is the following prayer,
4162 9,23| man free. On the tree He triumphed over the powers which opposed
4163 7,17| metaphor, psychological Trojan horses fabricated for planting
4164 11,3 | worship, for they strike trombones, blow horns, use organs,
4165 4,12| Prince Evgenii Nikolaevich Trubetskoi, examines these realistic
4166 Ep | without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, without
4167 1,1 | We are coming to see the truncated vision of Christianity which
4168 7,14| the danger of error if he trusts his own personal interpretations
4169 Fwd,1| Orthodox faith, still every truth-seeking person who read it came
4170 1,1 | authority [“In Memory of Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II,” Orthodox Life,
4171 6,6 | of the Middle East; and Tsarism itself fell in a self-sacrificial
4172 3,5 | God can do — Nicholas de Tudeschis, in Commentaria (lvi, 34).~
4173 11,4 | The Church dedicates every Tuesday to the honor of St. John
4174 5,6 | of the wilderness to the tumult of the city, it became worldly,
4175 5,4 | Christian life lived amidst the tumults and vanities of the world —
4176 1,16| XP) on the weapons and tunics of his troops and went on
4177 7,11| sources the more dirty and turbid they are, and the closer
4178 11,4 | carries Christians through the turbulent sea of life and saves them
4179 11,1 | various nationalities: the Turkic Bulgarians who were Moslems,
4180 1,1 | West experienced tremendous turmoil and corruption. The Crusades
4181 6,18| document, Professor Walter H. Turner of the University of Detroit
4182 Ep | world. In the warning of the twentieth-century prophet, Elder Ignatii of
4183 5,5 | monastic settlements, some twenty of them, and a large number
4184 6,15| Empire, and the keys to twenty-two cities. Thus, the pope was
4185 10,23| anything but Mary. Also, twisting all things in Scripture
4186 11,4 | day Liturgy may run about two-and-a-half to three hours. The services
4187 7,14| interpreters an order of death, a two-edged sword by which they stab
4188 7,11| Catholic theologian Julius Tyciak adds:~ ~For the Eastern
4189 7,21| Mysteries are canons of this type: they can never be changed.~
4190 4,12| the icon is a pattern (typos) of something heavenly (
4191 10,16| being a harsh and impersonal tyrant, for his is guided by the
4192 3,5 | the Church and would-be tyrants of the world. Pope Boniface
4193 7,14| all” (quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus creditum).
4194 11,4 | Churches in Russia, the Ukraine, Byelorussia, Carpatho-Russia,
4195 7,14| that in both cases, the ultimacy of Christ God is compromised:
4196 3,5 | the author's completely un-Orthodox view of the papacy and his
4197 Fwd,6| these people, Orthodoxy's un-worldliness, the beauty of its services,
4198 6,15| sanctity (Francis of Assisi), unacceptable to Orthodoxy, which gave
4199 Fwd,4| used when they showed an unadorned directness of presentation,
4200 5,4 | timid birds, were gentle and unafraid in the presence of these
4201 7,14| Scripture, contain within them unanswerable passages, or as St. Gregory
4202 6,16| Victor explains, is so unattainable, that not only can man never
4203 10,28| and the awareness of the unavoidability of punishment for deviating
4204 10,23| Incarnation counterbalanced Eve's unbelief and disobedience in Paradise.
4205 10,3 | on the evening when this unbelievable but very real act was carried
4206 1,1 | no more, and Satan works unbridled and performs his dark schemes
4207 9,42| fact, is saturated with uncertainties such as perhaps, presumably,
4208 1,1 | Constantine Cavarnos sums up this uncertainty of Catholic scholars in
4209 7,14| Humanism did not go unchallenged. Prior to its spreading
4210 2,33| two natures unconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably;
4211 7,14| Schism, and it continued unchecked throughout subsequent centuries.
4212 10,23| pure vessel to contain the Uncircumscribable One, giving birth to Him,
4213 4,14| God the incorporeal and uncircumscribed was not depicted at all.
4214 10,23| Jacob as the brother of his uncle Laban. In many other places,
4215 4,12| holy and unholy, between unclean and clean (cf. Lev 10:10).
4216 9,7 | Perhaps such a notion is not uncommon among individuals of mainstream
4217 2,33| acknowledged in two natures unconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly,
4218 11,4 | Liturgy, and takes part with unconscious and unstudied ease in the
4219 7,5 | the doctrine of the Lord uncorrupted, and firmly adhere to the
4220 7,11| of Baptism and the holy Unction of holy Chrismation? Which
4221 10,14| where it [the Church in an undefinable or mysterious sense known
4222 Fwd,5| new world order that is undeniably insane and bent on the complete
4223 6,15| of the schism — a point under-emphasized in the textbook, but made
4224 6,16| repented but died before undergoing temporal punishment here
4225 11,1 | supernatural impression [Evenly Underhill, as quoted from Timothy
4226 7,14| Renaissance humanism, which underlies the whole problem faced
4227 7,21| of Jordanville calls “an undermining of what has been established
4228 2,33| Greek verb meaning to stand underneath, and it implies stability,
4229 1,11| Calling the Church conciliar underscores the great importance of
4230 7,14| calling itself Orthodox, underscoring thereby that its main aim
4231 Fwd,4| objective manner, with sober understatement, and thereby eliminates
4232 7,14| the peace of the Church, undertake refined researches regarding
4233 7,14| only integration point, it undertook to create a new philosophy
4234 9,15| Adam fell from a state of undeveloped simplicity. Thus the East
4235 7,11| succession has preserved undiminished the connection to the Apostles [
4236 10,16| in it there is present an undistorted dogmatic teaching. Such
4237 4,17| teaching of the faith is an undoubted sign of truth. The Holy
4238 4,12| face gave out rays of some unearthly light, it is said. At that
4239 3,12| runs from a self-conscious uneasy acceptance to outright denial.
4240 5,1 | scholars to the poor and uneducated. The textbook cites examples
4241 10,28| gehenna to be eternal and unending. The Church therefore condemned
4242 2,5 | Christianity has been persecuted unendingly. As noted in the previous
4243 7,14| with the eyes of our own unenlightened mind, each of us will see
4244 9,12| requires the cooperation of two unequal, but equally necessary forces:
4245 Fwd,5| beings is completely and unequivocally proper, and he demonstrates
4246 11,4 | Judgment, which will come unexpectedly like “a bridegroom in the
4247 11,4 | faithful guardians and unfailing interpreters of Tradition,
4248 7,14| word Church appears, it is unfailingly used with the adjective
4249 7,17| rejected Christ and been unfaithful to its original destiny,
4250 5,7 | an image of Adam in his unfallen state. When Adam named the
4251 9,23| sources: from people, from unfavorable living conditions, but,
4252 6,17| principle in the historical unfolding of the Orthodox Church.
4253 3,18| Orthodoxy and has left an unhealed wound, and while Orthodoxy
4254 7,21| medicine to an ideology, is an unhealthy legalism which constitutes
4255 3,5 | power and jurisdiction was unheard-of in the undivided Christian
4256 11,3 | seem to fall largely on unhearing ears. St. Evagrios the Solitary,
4257 11,4 | Orthodox worship has an unhurried and timeless quality about
4258 1,1 | the Protestants, then the Uniates, and so on....~ ~As Protopresbyter
4259 11,4 | the forced propagation of Uniatism by the Vatican, and during
4260 8,14| tanquam ab uno principio et unica spiratione). Although this
4261 6,15| have meant that after one unified Church had existed for one
4262 2,35| they required universal and uniform observance of these canons.
4263 7,17| spelling. However, all this uniformity amounts to absolutely nothing.
4264 1,1 | ecumenical “church” that will unify all existing creeds, even
4265 8,7 | the Holy Spirit. In its unilateral and illicit addition of
4266 6,16| two years that something unimaginably ominous had been moving
4267 9,38| thought that the body is unimportant. This idea is a carryover
4268 11,3 | worship was irreverent, uninspiring and banal, and it was the
4269 10,21| with the Apostles continues uninterruptedly, going over with them into
4270 8,14| the West, which sees its unitary principle in the essence
4271 7,14| ascertain truth and can derive universals from it. Thus, the Enlightenment
4272 6,17| point of view, the Cambridge University-educated scholar explains, “The Great
4273 10,26| makes God unmerciful and unjust. If God could preserve Mary
4274 1,1 | but of Roman Catholicism's unjustifiable claims.” [Orthodoxy and
4275 10,26| personal sins, makes God unmerciful and unjust. If God could
4276 7,20| held by the Church with an unmistakable inner conviction and oneness
4277 6,18| exactly to petra, a large unmovable monolith.~ The Apostle Peter
4278 2,20| of falsehood, a person is unnoticeably led into subjection by the
4279 7,3 | characteristics do not pass unnoticed by outsiders. In fact, they
4280 8,14| one principle” (tanquam ab uno principio et unica spiratione).
4281 10,10| of course, like a lamp unplugged from the source of electricity,
4282 Fwd,5| world is now seething with unprecedented passions, and everyone can
4283 7,14| but for people with hearts unpurified of passions it is a stumbling
4284 6,18| fraudulent document was an unqualified success in advancing the
4285 10,28| never dies, the agony from unquenchable fire, and being cast into
4286 9,42| acknowledgement was abolished, and the unreasoning animals refused to submit
4287 9,15| man does in his fallen and unredeemed state can be pleasing to
4288 4,12| religious paintings are not only unrelated to the Orthodox Christian
4289 6,15| ever the same — immovable, unshakable and eternal — just as its
4290 11,4 | part with unconscious and unstudied ease in the action of the
4291 1,1 | the past, when Satan was unsuccessful in bringing about the complete
4292 7,17| the innermost recesses of unsuspecting minds,” he concludes.~ It
4293 Fwd,5| of life and followed it unswervingly. They conquered both themselves
4294 3,5 | denounced the teaching as untenable. When Pius IX sought the
4295 Ep | disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural
4296 10,18| is quite different. The unvarying constancy and the unerring
4297 9,38| ignorance, these attacks are unwarranted.~ Fr. Michael Pomazansky
4298 10,26| Immaculate Conception was the unwavering teaching of the Latin Church,
4299 7,11| natures of Christ, they are unwittingly accepting the teaching of
4300 5,6 | monasticism because of its unworldliness and its emphasis on the
4301 4,12| figures depicted must be unworldly, ascetic, their features
4302 5,4 | the commandments of Christ unyieldingly.~ One of the earliest records
4303 4,12| idolatry.~ Following the upheaval against iconography on the
4304 7,17| soul-destroying ideologies and social upheavals, such changes can be exceedingly
4305 7,11| concludes that:~ ~We must uphold with great reverence and
4306 9,15| Confessions, Decree iii]. Upholding the idea of synergy, Orthodoxy
4307 7,11| therefore, by which the Church upholds the unwritten is: whatever
4308 6,16| Apostle Peter in Rome and the upkeep of the papal palace. But
4309 7,11| instructions... you will be uplifted by the illumination which
4310 7,9 | the textbook variously uppercases and lowercases the first
4311 11,1 | mosque, while they stood upright. The Bulgarian bows, sits
4312 Fwd,3| the Cross — that is, an upside down cross. As the same
4313 11,4 | Russian Church in Exile in upstate New York takes from three
4314 11,1 | Orthodoxy. Each of these groups urged the prince to accept its
4315 1,1 | University, wrote that:~ ~Europe urgently needs peace. Innumerable
4316 7,17| Council of Churches of the USA (which, in conjunction with
4317 9,42| historians (R. Andree, H. Usener and T.G. Frazer). In these,
4318 5,4 | states of life. One is the usual life for mankind, married
4319 6,4 | in the West saw him as a usurper, for the legitimate Roman
4320 Fwd,5| for the anti-Christian “utopia,” the new world order.~
4321 1,2 | the Holy Spirit gave them utterance (Acts 2:2-4).~ ~Metropolitan
4322 7,11| the words which the priest utters at the change of the bread
4323 6,7 | divergence: in the political vacuum created by the barbarian
4324 Fwd,3| priesthood. The episcopi vagantes are not within the succession
4325 8,14| any sort of a deity became vague and deistic, calling to
4326 7,14| Russian Schema-abbot John of Valaam Monastery helps explain:~ ~
4327 2,35| states: “The right faith validates the meetings that have taken
4328 5,4 | lived amidst the tumults and vanities of the world — although
4329 Ep | so complete science with vanity that it will go off the
4330 1,1 | Orthodoxy has not been vanquished, but it has always survived
4331 1,1 | educated by a Jewish relative Varakh, who taught him the Old
4332 7,17| the authenticity of any variant reading. It therefore decided
4333 Fwd,1| one encounters truth in varying degrees, plus falsehood
4334 11,1 | back to Vladimir and his vassals that:~ ~When we journeyed
4335 9,42| brought about insect pests and vectors (mosquitoes, flies, lice,
4336 9,42| creation: food from the vegetable kingdom. God said to the
4337 Fwd,2| papal infallibility was vehemently denied by popes and faithful
4338 4,16| Spirit-bearing. If flesh so became a vehicle of the Spirit, so too can
4339 9,3 | in the Old Testament in a veiled way, only half-revealed,
4340 7,14| for itself.~ In the same vein did Luke Gehring, another
4341 2,20| Westerners operated like a vendetta. Not only the man who insulted
4342 2,20| as that God is angry and vengeful and therefore He must be
4343 10,23| modern times], living the verification of this prophetical saying
4344 9,35| means of prescribed and verified techniques. Using the words
4345 3,9 | Church, viz., he did not verify his teaching with the entire
4346 11,4 | Pascha must fall after the vernal equinox, on the first Sunday
4347 Fwd,4| As noted, the updated version of this book was written
4348 Fwd,6| Churches of Apostolic origin, versus one for the West. The West
4349 11,4 | portion), and the narthex (vestibule). Fr. Seraphim explains
4350 6,6 | throwing off the last remaining vestiges of Tartar suzerainty. God,
4351 11,4 | Today this area serves as a vestry.~ The arrangement of icons
4352 7,17| masoretes deleted the word vetula (virgin) in the text, substituting
4353 2,20| and deifying man. Men are vexed and angered when not taken
4354 6,16| the end of his life, Paul VI was stricken by the realization
4355 1,1 | writer also noted, the “Vicars of Christ on Earth,” with
4356 3,5 | Other appellations include Vice-God of Humanity, Exalted King
4357 9,21| textbook.~ Through all the vicissitudes of her history, the Greek
4358 11,1 | After his two decisive victories over the Roman Catholics,
4359 7,17| Testament.~ Bishop Nathanael of Vienna and Austria of the Russian
4360 2,24| spiritual beauty that lead the viewer from the world of matter
4361 4,12| of their ability to lift viewers to the prototypes. Thus,
4362 5,4 | settle nearby. In time a village would grown, and cities
4363 1,1 | parts of the Balkans, entire villages of Christians — men, women
4364 1,1 | overwhelm her. And the greatest villain of the world, the antichrist,
4365 3,18| deception, fanaticism and villainy” (as Dostoyevsky put it),
4366 7,14| Christianity gave the renowned Vincentian canon of universality, antiquity
4367 7,17| Humanity has praiseworthily vindicated the trust of God, Who delivered
4368 11,4 | Obviously, though, pews violate the traditional architectural
4369 7,21| old, with the relentless violation of the ancient institutions
4370 7,9 | determination.~ Protestants react violently to the idea of Holy Tradition
4371 10,26| Christ came through a pure, virginal, unwedded, God-fearing,
4372 1,1 | faced time and again with virtual extermination by different
4373 11,4 | the graphic examples of virtuous and depraved life gathered
4374 1,1 | domination.~ By far the most virulent and deadly form of anti-Christianity
4375 5,7 | Hearts: Eldress Rachel, Visionary of Russia, p. 10].~ ~Hieromonk
4376 4,12| one of His disciples would visit King Abgar to heal that
4377 9,42| analyzes this new condition vividly. Man, he says, is created
4378 7,11| not cease to safeguard and vivify the true meaning of Sacred
4379 3,9 | basic in the Holy Church, viz., he did not verify his
4380 9 | 9. Man: His Creation, Vocation and Failure.~ ~
4381 11,1 | the Moslem Bulgars of the Volga (not to be confused with
4382 7,17| these books in a single volume of the Bible together with
4383 7,14| Theologica, a massive set of volumes of questions and answers
4384 10,10| still a US citizen or to vote in American elections —
4385 1,1 | difficult for Satan to prepare voters to renounce Christ, as experience
4386 4,12| front of the icons (never votive candles).~ At the Russian
4387 10,20| departed ones have been vouchsafed to dwell in Heaven, they
4388 10,26| and forechosen, she was vouchsaved to be purified by the Holy
4389 5,4 | by Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky), former First Hierarch
4390 11,3 | hairstyles, their crudities and vulgarities, their tawdry use of Holy
4391 1,1 | Infallibility, pp. 33-34].~ ~As D.W. O’Conner also writes concerning
4392 10,26| the devil continued to wage war against the truth through
4393 11,3 | singing is a discordant wail. They have no idea of beauty
4394 10,28| has handed down, are the wailing and gnashing of teeth from
4395 4,12| their deliverance, were waiting to be brought up out of
4396 5,8 | afraid of death already wakes us up to begin to struggle.
4397 3,18| the “messiah” is presently walking on the face of the earth
4398 5,7 | ordinary people from all walks of life. Those who rendered
4399 4,12| produced pictures from his wallet, the bishop reminded him
4400 4,12| their loved ones in their wallets and homes. Once when a Greek
4401 6,18| this document, Professor Walter H. Turner of the University
4402 10,21| veneration of saints has waned in the Latin Church, the
4403 4,12| churches as they went about a wanton spree of murder, pillage
4404 7,11| immune system would react, to ward off these novel diseases.~
4405 Fwd,5| political agitators and other wardens of the mind who issue orders
4406 1,1 | witnessing a recrudescence of warlike fanaticism on the part of
4407 11,3 | to cultic intensity and warmed-over popular culture. These religious
4408 Fwd,6| nature, gifted with more warmhearted tenderness than men, who
4409 7,21| Orthodoxy. As such, they warrant comment.~ To help eliminate
4410 7,11| the Western Church into warring parties, took place because
4411 9,42| weevils, termites, locusts, wasps, yellow jackets, hornets,
4412 10,28| estrangement from God, and the wasting away of the souls of the
4413 11,4 | Testaments, an hour meant a watch that lasted three of our
4414 11,1 | doctrine. Instead, they watched the nations in prayer. The
4415 1,1 | means of sovereigns the Lord watches over the good of earthly
4416 11,3 | and trembling, with inner watchfulness and vigilance. When someone
4417 5,4 | their own will, in fasting, watching, laboring, and in doing
4418 9,29| are not to be conceived as water-tight compartments, but as degrees
4419 11,3 | Catholic priest, Fr. James Wathen, laments:~ ~Of its very
4420 9,15| to do good. Man's will is weakened and perverted by what the
4421 7,11| personally.... Some counsel weaker Christians to slander and
4422 2,20| disbelief is the lethal weapon of the devil. He spreads
4423 1,16| the chi rho (XP) on the weapons and tunics of his troops
4424 6,9 | seduce people into Rome's web of deceit concerning papal
4425 10,26| undefiled Mother without wedlock and without father, and
4426 10,3 | ourselves real Christians [“Weep!” translated from Russian
4427 9,42| lice, cockroaches, boll weevils, termites, locusts, wasps,
4428 10,14| of our lives — ultimately weigh each of us in the balance. “
4429 3,18| its faithful has always weighed heavily upon Orthodoxy and
4430 1,11| Scripture reveals a number of weighty things that take place:
4431 10,25| As the Catechism of Dr. Weimar states: “In the act of redemption,
4432 1,1 | and, by extension, of the welfare and happiness of mankind.
4433 Fwd,5| from a very well-educated, well-heeled, powerful cultural elite.
4434 8,14| neglect of Their Persons, well-nigh turns God into an abstract
4435 2,24| paintings. The modernistic, Western-style icons are not holy, and
4436 4,13| who seek to humanize or Westernize them, have a non-Christian
4437 7,17| is reduced “to a kind of wet clay upon which divers translators,
4438 | whereupon
4439 | Wherever
4440 Fwd,6| Churches have joined the latest whims and infatuations of the
4441 11,4 | a lower one, which is of white linen, and an upper one,
4442 7,17| be added that Fr. James wholeheartedly endorses the Third Millennium
4443 7,14| all-embracingness, all-inclusiveness, wholeness, fullness.” As a footnote
4444 10,23| betrothed of Mary, who was a widower with children from his first
4445 10,23| lips in all the lengths and widths of the earth, and in all
4446 10,17| one bishop can claim to wield absolute power over the
4447 10,19| defenders of the faith, wielding a veto, rejecting whatever
4448 9,39| digging a trench to contain a wildfire that threatened the native
4449 11,4 | He preserve them from the wiles of the devil during their
4450 7,21| but goes along the path willed by Jesus Christ.~ The textbook
4451 7,17| connection with these kinds of willful distortions of Scripture,
4452 1,1 | even further. Once Rome was willing to sacrifice the oldest
4453 9,15| and the impairing of his willpower so that he could no longer
4454 9,38| as well: “For Thou [Lord] wilt not suffer Thine Holy One
4455 1,2 | as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole
4456 5,8 | of God [Through a Prison Window].~ ~In sacred history, God
4457 7,9 | his elderly parents to the winds of fate. There were many
4458 5,4 | cruel cold of the Siberian winters could not harm them. Dwelling
4459 11,2 | Jn 1:46). Likewise, those wishing to know about Orthodoxy
4460 9,28| given to every man to profit withal” (1 Cor 12:7). Also, the
4461 5,7 | followed his pattern of withdrawing from the world to return
4462 1,1 | time at which moment the “withholder” will be taken away. According
4463 1,1 | of the other factor that withholds — that is, the Roman authority.
4464 3,5 | longer in a position to withstand false teachings that arose,
4465 7,17| s, are at best “impious, witless muddles and, at worst, quasi-theological
4466 1,1 | day among those Christians witnessing a recrudescence of warlike
4467 3,18| antichrist.~ In 1990, Pope Wojtyla issued a statement that
4468 Fwd,5| the vision of Christian womanhood I saw through their lives.
4469 3,18| and shall show signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible,
4470 11,4 | Apostles and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker are glorified. On Friday,
4471 7,11| confessions [of faith] by holy and wonderworking hierarchs such as were made
4472 9,38| God themselves, who once wore these bodies.~ Archimandrite
4473 6,16| should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus
4474 10,14| saint replied:~ ~Why do you worry about them? They have a
4475 11,4 | The normal Orthodox lay worshiper, through familiarity from
4476 4,3 | bowing down before and worshipping idols, something repugnant
4477 Fwd,6| rightly believe in Him and worthily honor Him. You have had
4478 5,7 | according to one's personal worthiness.”~ Eldership, being a direct
4479 3,5 | dictators over the Church and would-be tyrants of the world. Pope
4480 9,12| Sacrifice and offering Thou wouldst not.... Lo, I come to do
4481 11,4 | bearing the garment of truth woven of the theology from above,
4482 9,22| King of the angels.~He is wrapped about with the purple of
4483 9,22| the purple of mockery~ Who wraps the heavens in the clouds.~ ~
4484 4,12| discovered. Recovered from the wreckage were over eighty small metal
4485 10,13| Protestants, he states, wrestle with the issue of Orthodoxy'
4486 9,38| you are sorrowful, ill, wronged, in some other trouble,
4487 3,11| centers of the time taught wrongly, which one of them was in
4488 3,5 | God on earth — Pope Pius XI.~ ~Adding to these deranged
4489 3,5 | God Almighty — Pope Leo XIII, from his 1894 encyclical.~
4490 1,16| Christian symbol of the chi rho (XP) on the weapons and tunics
4491 8,14| Holy Trinity, Pope John XXIII began to carry atop his
4492 Ep | philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset writes that “before
4493 Fwd,6| Encyclopedia Britannica Yearbook reports, the Orthodox Church
4494 5,4 | love of wisdom, that is, a yearning toward higher ascetic struggles
4495 9,42| termites, locusts, wasps, yellow jackets, hornets, fire ants,
4496 7,11| Jesus Christ: the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
4497 7,14| the impression that it can yield as many different meanings
4498 6,16| with so-called “Christian yoga” and “Christian zen,” to
4499 5,7 | Fools-for-Christ's-Sake (Yurodivi) and holy eldresses, and
4500 6,15| In the year 752, Pope Zacharias anointed Pepin the Short,
4501 2,20| is deadly. As Fr. Kyril Zaits explains in this connection,
4502 7,14| the Orthodox Church. This zealous Church Father of Western
4503 6,16| Christian yoga” and “Christian zen,” to name just two of the
4504 Ep | The Greek Elder Philotheos Zervakos (+1980) additionally states
4505 Fwd,5| German), de man (Dutch), zmogus (Lithuanian), and homo (
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