Chapter, Paragraph
1 Pref | prone to saying there is no Orthodox culture in America; religious
2 Pref | familiarizing many with an Orthodox continuity of things commonly
3 Pref | has been the experience of Orthodox people in their own life
4 Pref | on to us.~It is uniquely Orthodox that theology is not solely
5 Pref | traditional for our people in Orthodox parishes for many generations
6 Pref | truths commonly held by the Orthodox, and to be able to say,
7 Intro | Introduction.~The teachings of the Orthodox Church are concerned primarily
8 Intro | Church.~For this reason, the Orthodox Church regards herself as
9 Intro | because, as one prominent Orthodox theologian has put it, “
10 Intro | left to God. As the noted Orthodox theologian, A. Khomiakov
11 Intro | Christian).~Therefore, as Orthodox we say that the Church of
12 Intro | Church of Christ — the Holy Orthodox Church — and will examine
13 1 | A Brief History of the Orthodox Church.~The history of the
14 1 | Church.~The history of the Orthodox Church actually begins in
15 1 | the inner tradition of the Orthodox Church.~ ~
16 1,4 | affirm the belief of the Orthodox that veneration of the Holy
17 1,4 | accepted as such by the Orthodox Church, although the possibility
18 1,5 | Great Schism between the Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Churches.
19 1,5 | Father and the Son__” The Orthodox objected to this insertion
20 1,5 | the consciousness of the Orthodox.~In 1453, a crucial event
21 1,7 | risked his life defending the Orthodox teachings of St. Athanasius
22 1,7 | a great defender of the Orthodox faith during the Arian controversies
23 1,7 | as major inspirations for Orthodox theology and monastic spirituality.~ ~
24 1,7 | and is especially noted in Orthodox liturgical life for, among
25 1,8 | Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, a major dogmatic
26 1,8 | hymns, extensively used in Orthodox liturgical services.~ ~St.
27 1,8 | single-handedly defended the Orthodox faith against the Latins.
28 1,8 | largely responsible for the Orthodox rejection of this false
29 1,8 | received the veneration of the Orthodox Church which honors him
30 1,9 | in the extension of the Orthodox faith into the Balkans and
31 1,0 | Conversion of Russia The Russian Orthodox Church.~Missionaries penetrated
32 1,0 | Christianity of the Germans, or the Orthodox faith of the Greeks. Accordingly
33 1,0 | whereupon they embraced the Orthodox faith and received Baptism
34 1,0 | which followed. The Russian Orthodox Church since 1917 has endured
35 1,0 | spiritual and moral force in the Orthodox world, confirming that the
36 1,1 | only a few thousand Greek Orthodox still remain in Turkey.~ ~(
37 1,1 | Skete.~ ~(b) Finland.~The Orthodox Church of Finland, an autonomous
38 1,1 | was part of the Russian Orthodox Church, but with the independence
39 1,1 | today, approximately 66,000 Orthodox faithful in the Finnish
40 1,1 | faithful in the Finnish Orthodox Church.~ ~Alexandria.~One
41 1,1 | sprang up without benefit of Orthodox missionaries, and the Orthodox
42 1,1 | Orthodox missionaries, and the Orthodox Church of this region promises
43 1,1 | perhaps 30,000,000 active Orthodox Christians. By 1966, after
44 1,1 | remains the largest in the Orthodox world.~ ~Georgia.~Founded
45 1,1 | incorporated into the Russian Orthodox Church, with the subjugation
46 1,1 | There are large numbers of Orthodox Serbians in the Dispersion,
47 1,1 | Bucharest. In numbers of Orthodox faithful, this Church is
48 1,1 | the third largest in the Orthodox world and is ruled by a
49 1,1 | Latin in the North and Orthodox in the South. On November
50 1,1 | Consisting primarily of Orthodox Christians from Western
51 1,1 | were forcibly joined to the Orthodox Church by the Communists
52 1,2 | 18th Century, the great Orthodox Christian missionary work
53 1,2 | attempts were made to bring the Orthodox Faith to the natives of
54 1,2 | Eskimos).~The first formal Orthodox Christian Mission to America
55 1,2 | taught the rudiments of the Orthodox Faith, and had been baptized
56 1,2 | were taken from The Russian Orthodox Religious Mission in America,
57 1,2 | as the first Saint of the Orthodox Church in America.~ ~
58 1,3 | Monk was glorified by the Orthodox Church in America, in impressive
59 1,3 | centers, with more than 10,000 Orthodox Christians. There were four
60 1,4 | missionary labors, the Russian Orthodox Church, on October 6, 1977,
61 1,4 | Fr. Alexis Toth, into the Orthodox Church. With this event,
62 1,4 | Uniates, as well as to the Orthodox immigrants from virtually
63 1,4 | virtually all of the traditional Orthodox nations in Europe and Asia.
64 1,4 | where great numbers of Orthodox and Uniate immigrants had
65 1,4 | of Brooklyn (the first Orthodox Bishop consecrated in America —
66 1,4 | abiding in the first Russian Orthodox Cathedral in America — the
67 1,4 | Minneapolis was reorganized as an Orthodox Theological Seminary (a
68 1,4 | 1858). In 1905, the first Orthodox Monastery in America was
69 1,4 | development of the Syro-Arab Orthodox community. He also accepted
70 1,4 | last Primate of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of
71 1,4 | the newly-Autocephalous Orthodox Church in America. The Tomos
72 1,4 | Patriarch Alexis of the Russian Orthodox Church on April 14, 1970,
73 1,4 | Church in the family of Orthodox Churches throughout the
74 1,4 | First Council of the new Orthodox Church in America, a title
75 1,4 | the first Saint of the Orthodox Church in America, was recognized
76 1,4 | heartbeat and breath of the Orthodox Church in America. They
77 1,5 | Other Orthodox Communities in America.~ ~
78 1,5 | America.~ ~Albanian.~Albanian Orthodox immigrants had been arriving
79 1,5 | as Bishop of the Albanian Orthodox Church in America. At his
80 1,5 | the newly-autocephalous Orthodox Church in America in October,
81 1,5 | several spurious American Orthodox groups. Metropolitan Germanos
82 1,5 | and the first Bulgarian Orthodox church was built in Madison,
83 1,5 | 1907. In 1922, a Bulgarian Orthodox Mission was organized by
84 1,5 | Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and in 1938, a Bishop
85 1,5 | Toledo, was joined to the Orthodox Church in America.~ ~Carpatho-Russian.~
86 1,5 | Minneapolis, was joined to the Orthodox Church, beginning what was
87 1,5 | In 1866, the first Greek Orthodox Church in the United States
88 1,5 | there were over thirty Greek Orthodox congregations in America,
89 1,5 | Ohio, although two Romanian Orthodox churches had been organized
90 1,5 | ordained by the Russian Orthodox Bishops there. At the conclusion
91 1,5 | themselves the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America. In
92 1,5 | Valerian was joined to the Orthodox Church in America, but the
93 1,5 | the Metropolia — later the Orthodox Church in America). A Russian
94 1,5 | Exile group, the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, established
95 1,5 | the Metropolia (now the Orthodox Church in America) in 1970,
96 1,5 | itself the Free Serbian Orthodox Church.~ ~Ukrainian.~During
97 1,5 | Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in the Ukraine, and
98 1,5 | In 1931, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America held its
99 1,5 | Athenogoros of the Greek Orthodox Church as head of this Church.
100 1,5 | The American Ukrainian Orthodox Church was organized in
101 1,5 | as well as the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Canada. In 1949,
102 1,5 | Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox of America, with Bishop
103 1,5 | October, 1950, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America under
104 1,5 | with the American Ukrainian Orthodox Church under Archbishop
105 1,5 | the independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the United States
106 1,5 | Constantinople. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Canada, in spiritual
107 1,5 | communion with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church U.S.A., is headquartered
108 2,1 | External Arrangement.~Orthodox churches generally take
109 2,1 | often used.~Almost always Orthodox churches are oriented East —
110 2,1 | convenience.~On the roof of Orthodox churches are usually found
111 2,1 | the basic dogmas of the Orthodox Church, as well as the general
112 2,1 | peculiar feature of Russian Orthodox churches is the presence
113 2,2 | Arrangement.~The interior of an Orthodox church is divided into several
114 2,2 | noticeable in traditional Orthodox churches is the absence
115 2,2 | prostrations typical of Orthodox worship.~At the extreme
116 2,2 | Bishop's use.~ ~A Russian Orthodox Church of the Most Usual
117 2,3 | prominent feature of an Orthodox church is the Iconostasis,
118 2,4 | the Holy Table of every Orthodox church — the Antimension.~
119 2,4 | community to exist as an Orthodox parish and to celebrate
120 2,5 | A striking component of Orthodox worship is the ringing of
121 2,6 | Council decreed that in the Orthodox Church, the holy Icons and
122 2,6 | Moscow, 1916, p. 108].~Orthodox faithful light candles before
123 2,6 | ancient custom of Russian Orthodox Christians to take home
124 2,7 | Their Vestments.~In the Orthodox Church there are three “
125 3 | 3. Orthodox Worship.~ ~
126 3,1 | of Life.~The life of an Orthodox Christian can be seen as
127 3,1 | involves the entire life of an Orthodox Christian is the daily cycle
128 3,1 | Following this ancient pattern, Orthodox Christians begin each portion
129 3,1 | Eight Tones (the basis for Orthodox Church music) and each Week
130 3,2 | number of Canons of the Holy Orthodox Church, is inspired by the
131 3,3 | Liturgies are celebrated by the Orthodox — the Liturgy of St. John
132 3,4 | last phrase, “You and all Orthodox Christians, may the Lord
133 3,7 | Liturgical Music.~In the Orthodox Faith, our singing in church
134 3,7 | prayers simply said. The Orthodox Church's tradition is to
135 3,7 | essence, is a song-book. Orthodox hymnody developed from the
136 3,7 | Augustine reflects on the Orthodox tradition of the 4th Century,
137 3,7 | clearly, somewhere in every Orthodox Divine Service, the people
138 3,7 | specific cultures that became Orthodox. Each Orthodox nationality
139 3,7 | that became Orthodox. Each Orthodox nationality has adapted
140 3,7 | the sacred singing of one Orthodox culture unrecognizable to
141 3,7 | another. There are in all Orthodox sacred singing those elements
142 3,7 | canonical chant.~Russian Orthodox church music has its particularly
143 3,7 | the responsibility for an Orthodox inculturation of a new land,
144 3,7 | practice. There is room in Orthodox culture for both choir singing
145 3,7 | ecclesial identity as the Orthodox Church.~Indeed, what must
146 3,7 | function of sacred singing in Orthodox worship. What is singing
147 3,8 | Liturgical books used in Orthodox worship fall into three
148 3,8 | for the most part, the Orthodox Church in America, still
149 3,0 | and the Sign of the Cross.~Orthodox worship is characterized
150 3,0 | body. The attitude of the Orthodox Believer to worship is reverential,
151 3,1 | emphasis is placed in the Orthodox Church on fasting; if one
152 3,3 | significance.~While most Orthodox Christians are perhaps aware
153 3,3 | situation of an isolated Orthodox living in the same household
154 3,4 | Cheesefare. In all, the Orthodox Church prescribes ten weeks
155 3,5 | epacts as calculated by the Orthodox Church, vary from those
156 3,5 | to the next between the Orthodox Church and the Western Churches
157 3,6 | Sunday of Orthodoxy. As the Orthodox triumphed during the iconoclastic
158 3,8 | Christ.~ ~The Artos.~In the Orthodox Church it is the custom
159 3,8 | is a custom among Russian Orthodox Christians to this day to
160 4 | 4. Feasts of the Orthodox Church.~ ~
161 4,1 | the new religious year all Orthodox Christians should come before
162 4,1 | human holiness that the Orthodox Church holds precious and
163 4,2 | consecrate all of them. The Orthodox Queen Helena left for Jerusalem
164 4,2 | life. With great joy, the Orthodox Queen and the Patriarch
165 4,2 | Grant victories to the Orthodox Christians over their adversaries;
166 4,2 | called by Thy Name; make all Orthodox Christians glad by Thy power,
167 4,5 | Christmas customs among the Orthodox people are simple, yet beautiful
168 4,6 | the greatest Feast of the Orthodox Church, predating even the
169 4,7 | love. Grant peace to all Orthodox Christians, O only Lover
170 4,1 | here that in the Russian Orthodox Church, branches from the
171 4,4 | Cor. 15:13-26).~The Holy Orthodox Church triumphs, exults
172 4,6 | world and confirmed the Orthodox in their particular veneration.~
173 5 | 5. Orthodox Monasticism.~It is generally
174 5 | first recorded hermitic Orthodox Christian literature was
175 5 | became the preferred form of Orthodox monasticism and thus, the
176 5 | overwhelming majority of Orthodox monastic communities in
177 5 | virtues.~For this reason, Orthodox Christian men and women,
178 5,1 | cup-shaped cap common to all Orthodox clerics and monastics. These
179 5,2 | from the opposite sex, all Orthodox monastics, Monks and Nuns
180 6 | 6. Orthodox Dogmas and Doctrines.~ ~
181 6,1 | characteristics of the Holy Orthodox Church is its changelessness,
182 6,1 | Holy Icons, II, 12]. To an Orthodox Christian, Tradition means
183 6,1 | ages [Timothy Ware, The Orthodox Church, p.204].~We take
184 6,1 | special note that for the Orthodox, the Holy Bible forms apart
185 6,1 | formulation within Tradition.~As Orthodox, however, while giving it
186 6,1 | see the truth of this.]~Orthodox loyalty to Tradition [the
187 6,1 | Spirit in the Church” [The Orthodox Church, p.206]. Thus Tradition
188 6,1 | promise forms the basis of Orthodox respect for Holy Tradition.
189 6,2 | most ancient prayers of the Orthodox Church. It was composed,
190 6,2 | the Holy Trinity.~The Holy Orthodox Church made a decisive stand
191 6,2 | protect the purity of the Orthodox teaching of the faith, setting
192 6,2 | a constant guide for all Orthodox Christians in their spiritual
193 6,5 | the Holy Spirit.~The Holy Orthodox Church confesses the Holy
194 6,5 | Person of the Trinity.~The Orthodox Church has always preserved
195 6,6 | of people united by their Orthodox faith, its doctrine, the
196 6,6 | The existence of Local Orthodox Churches does not contradict
197 6,6 | the Sacraments. The Local Orthodox Churches continually maintain
198 6,6 | assembly of Saints in the Orthodox Church is a living testimony
199 6,6 | rites and the whole order of Orthodox Church life; and as he lives
200 6,7 | salvation, and in the Holy Orthodox Church. Living faith in
201 6,8 | creation (Rom. 8:20-21).~The Orthodox Church's prayers for the
202 6,0 | The devotion that we, as Orthodox, render the icons and other
203 6,0 | the Lord's Day — the Holy Orthodox Church commands us not to
204 6,3 | theology and piety of the Orthodox Church, a special place
205 6,3 | who is reverenced by the Orthodox as being “more honorable
206 6,3 | than the Seraphim.” As Orthodox we style her as the most
207 6,3 | in the strict sense. The Orthodox Church has always seen brothers
208 6,3 | in the opinion of most Orthodox theologians, although not
209 6,3 | the Church. As the noted Orthodox theologian, Vladimir Lossky
210 7 | non-Orthodox visitor to an Orthodox church is the prominent
211 7 | fresco or mosaic form. The Orthodox faithful prostrate themselves
212 7 | Tradition witnesses that the Orthodox Church had a clear understanding
213 7 | redemption of the world.~ ~The Orthodox Church, then, created a
214 7 | Following his teachings, we, as Orthodox Christians, do not venerate
215 7 | venerating the Icons, then, the Orthodox are championing the basis
216 7,1 | brought to the Capital of the Orthodox. With great honor the Image
217 7,1 | enemy; and in the Russian Orthodox Church there is a pious
218 7,2 | monastery church of the Russian Orthodox Monastery of St. Tikhon
219 7,2 | the Saints by the Russian Orthodox Church (commemorated Nov.
220 7,2 | Theotokos for deliverance of the Orthodox capital. As a result, the
221 7,2 | the 9th Century. The Holy Orthodox Church at that time was
222 7,2 | spiritual beauty of the Russian Orthodox Church.~ ~Kazan.~In 1579,
223 7,2 | especially honored by the Russian Orthodox people.~ ~ ~
224 8 | Sacraments.~The Sacraments of the Orthodox Church, like the Church
225 8 | Customarily, in the Orthodox Church we speak of Seven
226 8 | dogmatic significance in our Orthodox theology, but is used only
227 8,1 | among the Sacraments of the Orthodox Church is occupied by Holy
228 8,1 | must be baptized. Thus the Orthodox Church holds Baptism to
229 8,1 | according to the belief of the Orthodox Church, is given to all,
230 8,1 | sponsor in question to be Orthodox.~In earlier times, Baptism
231 8,1 | one baptizing must be an Orthodox Christian and the Baptism
232 8,3 | among the Sacraments of the Orthodox Church is held by the Holy
233 8,3 | Eucharist is celebrated in the Orthodox Church at the following
234 8,3 | lies in the Holy Eucharist.~Orthodox Theology sees the Holy Eucharist
235 8,3 | Nicholas Cabasilas, a medieval Orthodox teacher, the Church's understanding
236 8,3 | Liturgy, 32].~According to the Orthodox Church, then, the Eucharist
237 8,3 | present reality. As one Orthodox theologian has said, “During
238 8,3 | operation unsearchable” [On the Orthodox Faith, IV, 13).~Concerning
239 8,3 | Communion itself, in the Orthodox Church both laity and clergy
240 8,4 | in what concerns the Holy Orthodox Faith, and over all my foul,
241 8,5 | Holy Orders.~In the Orthodox Church there are to be found
242 8,5 | Spirit in these ordinations.~Orthodox Priests and Deacons are
243 8,5 | ordination since, under Orthodox Canon Law, one may not marry
244 8,6 | or Metropolitan (Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (
245 8,6 | Czechoslovakia and the Orthodox Church in America, OCA).
246 8,7 | In the theology of the Orthodox Church man is made in the
247 8,7 | and Remarriage.~The Holy Orthodox Church does, however, permit
248 8,7 | by penitential prayers. Orthodox Canon Law permits a second
249 9 | 9. Orthodox Prayer.~The goal of the
250 9,4 | 46). Therefore our Holy Orthodox Church — our Mother — strictly
251 9,6 | Divine Service, the Holy Orthodox Church offers up prayers
252 9,6 | Spirit — and had kept the Orthodox Faith they received at Holy
253 9,6 | ninth day after death, the Orthodox Church offers prayers for
254 9,6 | dead has been held by the Orthodox Church since earliest times.
255 9,6 | Commemoration of Departed Orthodox Warriors.~The Church has
256 9,6 | before October 26. Later, Orthodox Christians began to commemorate
257 9,6 | commemorate on this day, not only Orthodox warriors fallen for the
258 9,6 | Faith, but also for all Orthodox Christians who have died
259 9,7 | Prayer of the Heart.~For the Orthodox, the prayer par excellence
260 9,7 | New Testament times, the Orthodox have believed that the power
261 9,7 | been a vital part of the Orthodox spiritual tradition from
262 9,7 | however, how can an ordinary Orthodox Christian practice this
263 9,7 | Archbishop Paul, Primate of the Orthodox Church of Finland and a
264 10 | the official text for the Orthodox Churches. In any case, the
265 10,1 | 1st and 2nd Kings in the Orthodox Bible) are concerned primarily
266 10,1 | 1st and 2nd Kings (in the Orthodox Bibles, 3rd and 4th Kings)
267 10,1 | 2nd Paralipomenen in the Orthodox Bibles) were originally
268 10,1 | but form a part of the Orthodox Bible (LXX). In other Bibles,
269 10,1 | verses are found only in the Orthodox Bibles (LXX).]~ ~Psalms.~
270 10,1 | place in the worship of the Orthodox Church and the Psalms are
271 10,1 | and Book V (Ps. 107-150). [Orthodox Bibles also include Psalm
272 10,1 | historical occasions).~In the Orthodox Church, the LXX version
273 10,1 | numbered differently in Orthodox Bibles; in most cases the
274 10,1 | in highest esteem by the Orthodox Church, and is quoted and
275 10,1 | historical appendix. The Orthodox book of Jeremiah differs
276 10,1 | consummation. In addition, the Orthodox Bible (LXX) contains two
277 10,2 | Testament (Apocrypha).~The Orthodox Bible contains certain other
278 10,2 | Scripture. However, both the Orthodox and Roman Catholics accept
279 10,2 | being spurious. Although the Orthodox Church accepts these books
280 10,2 | that are accepted by the Orthodox Churches are the following:~ ~
281 10,2 | Second Esdras~ ~[The Greek Orthodox accept 1st Esdras, but not
282 10,2 | This book is used by the Orthodox for Old Testament Readings
283 10,2 | is included in the Greek Orthodox Bible (in an Appendix),
284 10,3 | This text is used by the Orthodox Church concerning the Mystery
285 10,3 | Transfiguration (1:16-18), the Orthodox Church uses portions of
286 10,3 | earth in Chapters 21-22. The Orthodox Church also sees in Chapter
287 11,1 | by the power of God” [The Orthodox Faith}. This is affirmed
288 11,1 | most common in the Russian Orthodox Church. The first written
289 11,1 | done by the Cross” [The Orthodox Faith]. The instrument of
290 11,1 | was adopted by the Russian Orthodox Church and especially popularized
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