Chapter, Paragraph
1 Pref | Orthodox people in their own life and worship, representing
2 Intro | attain salvation unto eternal life. And who can be regarded
3 Intro | Apostolic Succession.~The whole life of the Church is based on
4 1,3 | among these was the monastic life, regarded by many as a form
5 1,4 | Monks, with their austere life, were, in a real sense,
6 1,4 | danger of forgetting that life in the world — the earthly
7 1,5 | the Lord, the Giver of Life, Who proceeds from the Father...,”
8 1,5 | the Lord, the Giver of Life, Who proceeds from the Father
9 1,6 | writings concerning Church life, the most important is On
10 1,7 | of monasticism, and The Life of St. Anthony, by St. Athanasius,
11 1,7 | controversies, he risked his life defending the Orthodox teachings
12 1,7 | Incarnation of Christ and The Life of St. Anthony, which serve
13 1,7 | noted in Orthodox liturgical life for, among other things,
14 1,8 | defense of the contemplative life of hesychasm (inner silence),
15 1,0 | revitalizer of pastoral life, and St. Seraphim of Sarov (†
16 1,1 | be a revival of monastic life there, particularly at the
17 1,1 | an important force in the life of the Alexandrian Patriarchate.~ ~
18 1,1 | Monks. Generally, Church life is more active, however,
19 1,1 | Constantinople, Gregory, his life). This war of independence
20 1,2 | an end, together with his life. He was killed by the natives,
21 1,2 | Materials Concerning the Life and Works of the Monk German,
22 1,3 | Little is known of the early life of the Monk Herman. He was
23 1,3 | 16, he began his monastic life at the Trinity-St. Sergius
24 1,3 | Renewer of the spiritual life of Valaam. He found in Nazarius
25 1,3 | remember for the rest of his life. During his stay in Valaam,
26 1,3 | He spent the rest of his life on this island, where he
27 1,3 | to be ordained. Thus, his life on the island was that of
28 1,3 | first investigation of his life in 1867, by Bishop Peter
29 1,3 | year, since he found the life in Kodiak too harsh.)~Together,
30 1,4 | language, as well as the life style of the people. He
31 1,4 | Church throughout his entire life, distinguishing himself
32 1,4 | year the first study of the life of the Elder Herman of Spruce
33 1,4 | into a new phase of its life. A Church almost exclusively
34 1,4 | one year of his Priestly life in America — as the first
35 1,4 | account and bring it to life in our lives.~ ~
36 2,4 | and as it is the Book of Life, its Governing may not be
37 2,7 | peaceful conscience, a spotless life, and the spiritual joy in
38 2,7 | must rise to holiness of life, wearing this “garment of
39 2,7 | that by his teaching and life he must rise above his flock
40 3,1 | Cycles.~ ~The Great Cycle of Life.~The life of an Orthodox
41 3,1 | Great Cycle of Life.~The life of an Orthodox Christian
42 3,1 | all, the great cycle of life, which embraces the whole
43 3,1 | which embraces the whole life of a man from birth to death,
44 3,1 | which involves the entire life of an Orthodox Christian
45 3,1 | those who have departed this life in the hope of resurrection
46 3,1 | resurrection and eternal life.~Each week of the Weekly
47 3,1 | following day), but in parish life, as well as certain cathedrals
48 3,2 | guard the way to the tree of life (Gen. 3:24).~During the
49 3,2 | before denotes the spiritual life brought to earth by the
50 3,2 | to [the] former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful
51 3,2 | ever-springing fountain of life and truth are answered in
52 3,2 | believers, of the true Light of Life — Jesus Christ, the Son
53 3,2 | at last the dawn of a new life, has our Christian soul
54 3,2 | of creation, of spiritual life in God, passes beneath the
55 3,2 | undefiled...,” which, in parish life, is usually recited in full
56 3,2 | therein and in our future life. The procession of the Priest
57 3,2 | fallen from the joys of the life with God that rejoices the
58 3,3 | essence of the Feast or the life and spiritual feats of the
59 3,3 | hearts with the taste of life eternal (2 Cor. 2:14).~At
60 3,4 | earthly activity for the life of men. “And grant that
61 3,4 | remission of sins and unto life everlasting.” During the
62 3,4 | the Liturgy the earthly life of Jesus Christ passes before
63 3,1 | in worship and spiritual life, in general, great emphasis
64 3,3 | kills, but the Spirit gives life (2 Cor. 3:6). The fasting
65 3,6 | departure from God's house, a life of wantonness, misery at
66 3,6 | the essence of spiritual life. This prayer is said at
67 3,6 | O Lord and Master of my life! Take from me the spirit
68 3,6 | In addition, St. Mary's Life is read. On Saturday of
69 3,6 | and lived the rest of her life in solitude in the Egyptian
70 3,7 | that Jesus is the Master of life and death, and foreshadows
71 3,8 | those in the tombs bestowing life.”~The Clergy and Faithful
72 3,8 | rejoice. Christ is risen, and life reigns. Christ is risen,
73 3,8 | called Himself the Bread of Life, saying: I am the bread
74 3,8 | saying: I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall
75 3,8 | Himself the true Bread of Life and is invisibly present
76 4,1 | children, and all their life they grieved about this,
77 4,1 | He has granted us eternal life.~ ~Kontakion of the Feast (
78 4,1 | Theotokos, the Nourisher of our Life.~ ~
79 4,2 | in Him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world
80 4,2 | perish but have eternal life (John 3:14-16). This was
81 4,2 | paradise” in whom the Tree of Life sprouted; this Tree of Life,
82 4,2 | Life sprouted; this Tree of Life, Christ our Savior, then “
83 4,2 | he immediately came to life. With great joy, the Orthodox
84 4,3 | to live in the Temple — a life set apart, consecrated,
85 4,3 | mystery covers the earthly life of the Most-Holy Theotokos
86 4,3 | childhood to her repose. Her life in the Jerusalem Temple
87 4,5 | Christ the Savior, man's life was one of despair and bitterness,
88 4,5 | and pleasant moments in life; garlic the bitter days;
89 4,5 | understanding with which we accept life's ordinary and happy experiences.~
90 4,7 | thorns and trials of her life, that her Son, while bringing
91 4,7 | the path of a righteous life, filled with the expectation
92 4,0 | Mother to the eternity of the life to come, “for being the
93 4,0 | for being the Mother of Life, she was translated to life
94 4,0 | Life, she was translated to life by the One Who dwelt in
95 4,0 | being called to immortal life and to the eternal King
96 4,0 | Lord's face the immortal life and glory to which she would
97 4,0 | her departure from this life, the Most-Pure Lady wanted
98 4,0 | You were translated to life, O Mother of Life, and by
99 4,0 | translated to life, O Mother of Life, and by your prayers you
100 4,0 | For being the Mother of Life, she was translated to life
101 4,0 | Life, she was translated to life by the One who dwelt in
102 4,1 | were made worthy of eternal life by Thy Resurrection! Now
103 4,2 | Ascension, opened the way to Life and Heaven itself. He was
104 4,3 | of Blessings and Giver of Life: Come and abide in us and
105 4,4 | glory, a new awareness of life was born within them along
106 4,4 | revelation of God's truth and life eternal in Jesus Christ,
107 4,4 | Holy of Holies of immortal life and communion with God.
108 4,4 | beginning of everlasting life. On this Feast of Feasts,
109 4,4 | those in the tombs bestowing life!”~ ~Troparion of the Feast (
110 4,4 | those in the tombs bestowing life!~ ~Kontakion of the Feast (
111 4,6 | closely involved in the life of the apostles and also
112 4,7 | have come to fullness of life in Him, Who is the head
113 4,8 | having a firm belief in life after death, barrenness
114 4,8 | would not be carried on in life. In addition, Zechariah
115 4,9 | death more than we seek life, poverty more than we seek
116 4,9 | desired nothing more in life than to please God and the
117 4,9 | the whole meaning of his life was his love for Christ.~ ~
118 5 | 356). Yet, even in the life of this father of monasticism,
119 5 | wished to pursue the monastic life under the guidance of one
120 5 | experience in spiritual life.~Anthony knew, however,
121 5 | difficulties of the solitary life and he strongly approved
122 5 | the coenobitic or common life, as it was perfected by
123 5 | monasticism and the solitary life the exception. Whenever
124 5 | examples of solitary monastic life in later Saint's lives,
125 5 | experience in communal monastic life. Even as great an ascetic
126 5 | order to pursue the solitary life. Thus, in time, the communal,
127 5 | Another form of monastic life which developed was the
128 5 | developed was the skete life, so-called for the famous
129 5 | originated this form. The skete life has often been called the
130 5 | extreme rigors of solitary life and the common life. A skete,
131 5 | solitary life and the common life. A skete, which in modern
132 5 | living a stricter ascetical life prayer.~Skete life can take
133 5 | ascetical life prayer.~Skete life can take one of two different
134 5 | general rules of monastic life are the same as in idiorrhythmic
135 5 | which consists of the common life typical of the coenobitic
136 5 | progressed in the monastic life were allowed to live as
137 5 | monasticism was the solitary life and the Monk is, by definition,
138 5 | discourage those who would lead a life of solitude? Is this not
139 5 | leading a totally solitary life is rarely in a position
140 5 | in his saintly manner of life and in this state, he can
141 5 | experienced in the spiritual life. The Monk confesses even
142 5 | obedience. True monastic life, however, especially under
143 5 | particular struggle. The life of a Monk is specifically
144 5 | acquisition of these virtues. Life outside the monastery, with
145 5 | and disobedience. Monastic life elevates a Monk to spiritual
146 5,1 | one desiring the monastic life enters a monastery, he normally
147 5,1 | skilled in the monastic life and the direction of souls,
148 5,1 | immersing himself in the life of the Monastery, struggling
149 5,1 | elder), for the monastic life. This three-year period
150 5,1 | earliest times, for, in the Life of St. Pachomius, the founder
151 5,1 | the founder of the Common Life, we learn that he was commanded
152 5,1 | Great Schema. The Common Life (that of a Monk of the Lesser
153 5,1 | betrothal, and Seclusion (the life of a Monk of the Great Schema)
154 5,1 | obedience to the end of life, and these are given in
155 5,1 | reply is given, “I seek a life of mortification.” The Abbot
156 5,1 | the Monastery and lead a life of mortification until his
157 5,1 | hardships of the monastic life. When he has answered all
158 5,1 | the nature of the monastic life and the Novice pledges himself
159 5,2 | must strive, “by purity of life, by good deeds, and good
160 5,2 | many years in the monastic life and often it was not conferred
161 5,2 | until the end of a Monk's life. Those who reached that
162 5,2 | organization of monastic life, the Monastic Grades, Tonsure,
163 5,2 | aspirations of monastic life likewise are the same for
164 6,1 | in the Church, it is the life of the Holy Spirit in the
165 6,2 | Christians in their spiritual life.~The Creed itself is divided
166 6,2 | the Lord, the Giver of Life, Who proceeds from the Father;
167 6,2 | dead;~(12) And the life of the world to come. Amen.~ ~
168 6,3 | His eternal glory, giving life to the most pure spirits,
169 6,4 | 26-40); and the Lord of Life and Death (Luke 7:11-16;
170 6,4 | at various moments of His life (Matt. 3:16-17; Mark 1:10-
171 6,4 | 5:18) during His earthly life.~Having illumined men with
172 6,5 | Holy Spirit the Giver of Life, because through His activity
173 6,5 | man becomes a partaker in life eternal in God.~The distinctive
174 6,6 | the Church's real mystical life, indicating the real union
175 6,6 | the usual order of human life and cannot be compared with
176 6,6 | Who gives mankind true life in God.~The Church serves
177 6,6 | the bestowal of grace, life according to God — life
178 6,6 | life according to God — life upheld by God in her, God'
179 6,6 | proof of the reality of the life and action of Divine Grace
180 6,6 | leads us to the Church, and life in Christ is life in the
181 6,6 | Church, and life in Christ is life in the Church. Thus, he
182 6,6 | either. The Christian's life is impossible without faith
183 6,6 | the reward for a righteous life, but also consists in the
184 6,6 | the gradual merging of our life with the life of the Church,
185 6,6 | merging of our life with the life of the Church, that is,
186 6,6 | making him fit for a new holy life in Christ.~There is nothing
187 6,6 | by drawing him into the life of the Church. The Christian
188 6,6 | order of Orthodox Church life; and as he lives this life
189 6,6 | life; and as he lives this life man attains an unshakeable
190 6,7 | Christianity, the beginning of life in God. Baptism restores
191 6,7 | a man dies to his sinful life and is reborn into a new,
192 6,7 | into a new, spiritual, holy life, in which he puts on the
193 6,7 | and an heir to Eternal Life.~Water is the substance
194 6,7 | vitally necessary for human life. Therefore water in the
195 6,7 | confess his baptism through a life pleasing to God, for Christ
196 6,7 | man's visible, external life is a reflection of his inner,
197 6,7 | of his inner, spiritual life. The Sacrament of Baptism
198 6,7 | the foundation for a new life of grace, and the perfection
199 6,7 | and the perfection of this life with the help of Divine
200 6,7 | Christ (1 Tim. 1:15-16), a life according to faith (James
201 6,7 | the Christian's spiritual life is faith in Jesus Christ,
202 6,7 | and gives him joy and the life eternal (James 1:4-8, 12).~
203 6,7 | his Baptism through his life in faith. A Christian life
204 6,7 | life in faith. A Christian life is a constant struggle against
205 6,7 | the Savior's Gospel into life, a Christian is serving
206 6,7 | perfection in his spiritual life through constant prayer
207 6,7 | truly Christian spiritual life is only possible if a man
208 6,8 | created by the Lord for life, and human thought cannot
209 6,8 | and corruption to eternal life (Acts 2:24, 27-28; 2 Tim.
210 6,8 | with their souls, come to life, and be both spiritual and
211 6,8 | Resurrection and in eternal life. While man's spiritual link
212 6,8 | non-existence, but the gate to life and immortality. The Christian
213 6,8 | transition to an eternal life.~ ~
214 6,9 | Concerning the Life of the World to Come.~The
215 6,9 | Christian: “I look for...the life of the world to come.” By “
216 6,9 | world to come.” By “the life of the world to come” the
217 6,9 | the Holy Church means the life that shall be after the
218 6,9 | responsible to God for the life that he has been given.
219 6,9 | lays the beginning of that life which shall begin when his
220 6,9 | on how he has lived his life on earth. If he has always
221 6,9 | This ineffable joy of life in Paradise cannot be expressed
222 6,9 | says: And this is eternal life, that they know Thee the
223 6,9 | God, the Source of Light, Life and Blessedness; and in
224 6,9 | Lord can be felt, giving life and joy to those who dwell
225 6,9 | repentance, the call to a life worthy of repentance, shall
226 6,9 | The blessed state in the life to come is a result of moral
227 6,0 | earliest times, the taking of a life has been considered to be
228 6,0 | serious matter, indeed. Life is given by God and only
229 6,0 | the taking of one's own life (suicide) is so strongly
230 6,0 | no murderer has eternal life abiding in him (1 John 3:
231 6,0 | whole world and forfeits his life (Matt. 16:26)? As St. Paul
232 6,0 | everything, even His own life, for us. For He tells us
233 6,0 | 1 Tim. 6:8-9). Keep your life free from love of money,
234 6,0 | Let every one lead the life which the Lord has assigned
235 6,1 | in Him may have eternal life (John 3:14-15).~Our salvation
236 6,1 | perish but have eternal life (John 3:16). Man should
237 6,1 | throughout the Christian's life.~In our Lord's conversation
238 6,1 | water, welling up to eternal life (John 4:14). Then, speaking
239 6,2 | the fullness of spiritual life consists in renunciation
240 6,2 | ourselves in the fullness of life lived for God and for others.
241 6,2 | in God, knows that human life belongs to Him and always
242 6,2 | 13:14-16), for His entire life teaches us humility. The
243 6,2 | who repent in this earthly life, but will wipe away every
244 6,2 | us both comfort in this life and true consolation in
245 6,2 | righteousness. Just as in life the body periodically hungers
246 6,2 | drink, so in the spiritual life come moments when man yearns
247 6,2 | faith, urging it to lead a life compatible with this righteousness.-~
248 6,2 | said: I am the bread of life.... For My flesh is food
249 6,2 | righteousness only in the life to come, when the righteous
250 6,2 | darkly what in the next life we shall see face to face (
251 6,2 | when peace reigns in your life and when your soul is obedient
252 6,2 | out the two paths through life — the wide and broad one,
253 6,2 | the narrow way leads to life, that is, it brings salvation (
254 6,2 | ill-intentioned men, who take the good life of the believer as a rebuke
255 6,2 | condemned their lawless life, and persecuted and crucified
256 6,2 | who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be
257 6,2 | righteousness, and for spiritual life in Christ which gives us
258 6,2 | an accompaniment to this life. The Savior said: In the
259 6,2 | and make his path through life more like the way of the
260 6,2 | characteristic of the spiritual life. If life itself is a thing
261 6,2 | of the spiritual life. If life itself is a thing of goodness
262 6,2 | of goodness and joy, then life in God is doubly good and
263 6,2 | even here in our earthly life the Lord gives us joy, how
264 6,4 | which bore the Bread of Life.~ ~Temple.~The Prophet Ezekiel
265 7 | and be led to remember His life in the flesh, His Passion
266 7 | Icon that shows us this life.~If God became man in order
267 7 | sin and partaking of the life of God, testifies to the
268 7,2 | Luke during the earthly life of the Theotokos. At this
269 7,2 | not only in their present life, but also in the hereafter.
270 7,2 | turned to God and to the life of a holy ascetic. Since
271 8,1 | new holy, and spiritual life. This Baptism serves as
272 8,1 | and be the heir to Eternal Life. As the Lord Himself said,
273 8,1 | repent and to change their life in accordance with His teaching.
274 8,1 | task of translating into life the Gifts of Grace of the
275 8,1 | the first days of their life on Earth, they can become
276 8,1 | Christianity, above all, is a new life in Christ Jesus, and this
277 8,1 | in Christ Jesus, and this life, according to the belief
278 8,1 | in particular, with the life of Christ when, on the 40th
279 8,1 | a resurrection for a new life in Christ, something that
280 8,2 | Unwaning Light and Divine Life. It is for this reason that
281 8,2 | the heavenly rewards of life and the eternal promises
282 8,3 | said, I am the bread of life; he who conies to Me shall
283 8,3 | which I shall give for the life of 'the world is My flesh (
284 8,3 | attain salvation unto eternal life, thus we can answer the
285 8,3 | the illumination of your life, must first sanctify your
286 8,4 | creates discord in family life, in society, and of all
287 8,4 | every hour and minute of my life.~I weep over my pride and
288 8,4 | actions of my ill-fated life; for my immeasurable and
289 8,4 | face the last hour of my life; my soul will be painfully
290 8,4 | for I have spent all my life in indolence and sin, all
291 8,4 | I have wasted my entire life in laziness.~How many times
292 8,4 | every minute of my tortured life! Who will now cool my head
293 8,7 | state of grace, and married life is a special vocation (no
294 8,7 | they will share a common life with one another.~ ~Divorce
295 9 | goal of the Christian's life on earth is salvation in
296 9 | foundation of spiritual life and the source of salvation.
297 9 | Chrysostom says, there is no life in the spirit. Without prayer
298 9 | of the soul, that is the life of the spirit. True prayer,
299 9 | exertions and labor. All of life's deeds require toil and
300 9,1 | and foremost duty in your life and as such keep it in your
301 9,1 | of the fact that earthly life is not eternal. Death, which
302 9,2 | accordance with our manner of life and the state of our spiritual
303 9,3 | a fish out of water: as life is water for a fish, so
304 9,3 | prayer is the breath of life.~ ~
305 9,4 | Himself, during His earthly life, used to visit the Temple
306 9,5 | Father is He Who calls us to life, Who loves His creation
307 9,5 | purity and sanctity of divine life to which man is called,
308 9,5 | everything we need in life, spiritual as well as physical.
309 9,5 | said: I am the bread of life...and the bread which I
310 9,5 | which I shall give for the life of the world is My flesh (
311 9,6 | come a joyful and blessed life n the Kingdom of Heaven,
312 9,6 | God, the Trinity, is the Life of all and the Cause of
313 9,7 | mysteries of the contemplative life. For some, there comes a
314 9,8 | a part of our Christian life, so much so that we the
315 9,8 | and stipulates laws for life and rules for action.” The
316 9,8 | significance and aim of human life. The language of such Psalms
317 9,8 | of wisdom (Ps. 104:24). Life, man, the beauty and harmony
318 10 | expression of the religious life of ancient Israel.~This
319 10 | expression of Israel's religious life extended over a thousand
320 10 | reflects many facets of the life of Israel, taking many forms:
321 10,1 | world, including man, man's life in Paradise (a symbol of
322 10,1 | made and laws governing life and worship were promulgated (
323 10,1 | laws to govern Israel's life as a holy people (the Holiness
324 10,1 | God as the condition for life in the Promised Land. A
325 10,1 | which are meditations on life and the ways of God); and
326 10,1 | Testament in her liturgical life. This is especially evident
327 10,2 | meditation on the Scriptures, on life in general and on his own
328 10,3 | Messiah, by whose words and life His followers, the True
329 10,3 | you shod put on. Is not life more than food, and the
330 10,3 | Beginning of Jesus' public life — John the Baptist; baptism
331 10,3 | For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever
332 10,3 | spiritual nature of man (life and light). When He became
333 10,3 | experience — bread, water, light, life, shepherd, door, etc. —
334 10,3 | the Resurrection and the Life, he who believes in Me;
335 10,3 | 3:21-4:25) and the new life which has been made available
336 10,3 | autobiographical glimpses into Paul's life (4:8-18; 11:22-33).~ ~The
337 10,3 | of the Apostle's earlier life and missionary activity.
338 10,3 | to deepen the spiritual life of its readers (1:3-4),
339 10,4 | follow me all the days of my life.~And I shall dwetl in the
340 10,5 | way, the truth, and the life ....................John
341 11,1 | whole purpose of a man's life is knowledge of the Cross,
342 11,1 | knowledge, even so would eternal life enter into the world with
343 11,1 | the world with the tree of life which, on earth, has been
344 11,1 | of Christ.~This Tree of Life, united in the Cross of
345 11,1 | in Him may have eternal life (John 3:14-15).~Now everyone
346 11,1 | there is no sacrament, no life and no salvation. It is
347 11,1 | Egyptian hieroglyphics meaning life. It has been adopted by
348 11,1 | since Christ is the Tree of Life (John 14:6).~Anchor: This
349 11,2 | Ark of Noah, all can find life in the safety of the Church.~
350 11,2 | loaf, Christ the Bread of Life. Thus, this symbol can also
351 11,2 | symbol of Christ the Fruit of Life.~Lamb of God: This symbol
352 11,2 | ground, yet from it new life is released.~Olive Branch:
353 11,2 | of the Resurrection and life immortal.~Seven-Fold Flame:
354 11,2 | the symbol of the Bread of Life, based on the Gospel of
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