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Chapter, Paragraph
1 Intro | Christ as the true Son of God come in the flesh (1 John
2 Intro | Church: “A man cannot have God as his Father if he does
3 Intro | since one cannot think of God and the Church as being
4 Intro | being apart from each other. God is salvation, and God's
5 Intro | other. God is salvation, and God's saving power is mediated
6 Intro | whose membership is known to God alone. If anyone is saved,
7 Intro | possible to say. The Spirit of God blows where it will, and,
8 Intro | final judgment is left to God. As the noted Orthodox theologian,
9 Intro | united to her by ties which God has not willed to reveal
10 Intro | chastising judgment which is God's alone. The Church simply
11 1,1 | Christ, the Son of the Living God (Matt. 16:16), for the Lord
12 1,4 | who could not accept that God and Man had been united
13 1,4 | Theotokos (or Birthgiver of God). Supported primarily by
14 1,4 | Who is, at the same time, God and Man.~ ~Chalcedon (451).~
15 1,4 | perfect in manhood, [is] truly God and truly man...acknowledged
16 1,4 | Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is “one of the Holy Trinity,”
17 1,4 | Himself the two natures of God and Man, without fusing
18 1,4 | was not the Kingdom of God, the Monks and their withdrawal
19 1,4 | reminded Christians that God's Kingdom, in fact, is not
20 1,8 | and the Divine Energies of God, through which man can have
21 1,8 | have true communion with God.~ ~St. John of Damascus (
22 1,8 | prayers of the Mother of God). He is also noted for his
23 1,9 | people hear the Word of God in their own language and
24 1,0 | where they worship their God, and we knew not whether
25 1,0 | describe it. We know only that God dwells there among men,
26 1,2 | a Martyr for the word of God. On the spot where the missionary'
27 1,2 | Aleuts were filled with God's grace, and firmly and
28 1,2 | newly-martyred [Peter], pray to God for us!”~ ~[The above accounts
29 1,3 | No, I am not alone there! God is there, as God is everywhere.
30 1,3 | there! God is there, as God is everywhere. The Most-Holy
31 1,3 | him an intercessor before God. Once there was a great
32 1,4 | he preached the Word of God, all the people listened,
33 1,4 | solemnly glorified this Man of God and entered him into the
34 1,4 | Icon of the Kazan Mother of God and was “written” by the
35 2,3 | the earthly heaven where God, Who is above heaven, dwells
36 2,3 | heaven” [Book on the House of God, Ch. 12].~Following these
37 2,3 | where reconciliation between God and man is achieved. Standing
38 2,3 | which is the Birthgiver of God with the Divine Infant Who
39 2,4 | represents the Throne of God, with the Lord Himself invisibly
40 2,4 | representing the glory of God's Throne. Both cloths cover
41 2,4 | deliverance. Since the Lamb of God was slain on the Cross for
42 2,4 | all.” As it is the Word of God, the Book of the Holy Gospels
43 2,4 | Holy Table, signifying that God is mystically present. It
44 2,6 | when the first temple of God was built on earth — the
45 2,6 | their faith and hope in God's help that is always sent
46 2,6 | burning and grateful love for God. During the reading of the
47 2,6 | the Unwaning Light of God.~During the Vespers portion
48 2,6 | symbolic meanings; for it is God Who said, “Let light shine
49 2,6 | knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ (1
50 2,6 | adoration and love for God, their sacrifices to Him,
51 2,6 | righteous who have pleased God.~ ~
52 2,7 | dedication to the service of God), the Reader's basic ecclesiastical
53 2,7 | who serve at the Throne of God, just as do the Sub-Deacons,
54 2,7 | right hand of the Almighty God.~ ~Priest.~In addition to
55 2,7 | strength, but in the help of God.~If so awarded, the Priest
56 2,7 | Spirit,” which is the Word of God.~Over the Cassock and Epitrachelion,
57 2,7 | Savior or of the Mother of God, called the Panagia (All-Holy),
58 2,7 | from which the ministers of God receive their doctrines.
59 3,1 | especially the Mother of God, and to the memory of all
60 3,1 | Feasts of the Mother of God.~ ~Great Feasts of the Lord:~ ~
61 3,1 | The Nativity of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ (
62 3,1 | or Epiphany) of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ (
63 3,1 | Transfiguration of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ (
64 3,1 | Feasts of the Mother of God:~ ~1. The Nativity of the
65 3,1 | in honor of the Mother of God), the Trisagion and Lord'
66 3,1 | sabachthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken
67 3,1 | sabachthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken
68 3,2 | re-enter into communion with God's love and, by retracing
69 3,2 | exclamation, “Blessed is our God...” without the Trinitarian
70 3,2 | Creation, the Spirit of God, the True Light and Incense
71 3,2 | waters: And the Spirit of God was moving over the face
72 3,2 | cherubim and a flaming sword: [God] drove out man; and at the
73 3,2 | Arise, O Lord, save me, O my God...,” which is addressed
74 3,2 | utterly obey the will of God. The prophetic verses from
75 3,2 | mediation of Christ the Son of God, now by His intercession,
76 3,2 | censer, ascends to the Lord God. It symbolizes that the
77 3,2 | angels bear our prayers to God by means of the censer:
78 3,2 | Testament ritual wherein God, through Moses, commanded
79 3,2 | Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The entrance bearing a
80 3,2 | lifted up to the Lord our God Who this day has shown great
81 3,2 | enter into the House of God. After the Litya, the clergy
82 3,2 | Theotokion) to the Mother of God.~On Feast days, at this
83 3,2 | creation, of spiritual life in God, passes beneath the Sign
84 3,2 | what it is to be apart from God, that they might come to
85 3,2 | then the special hymn, “God is with us...,” taken from
86 3,2 | Compline, we give thanks to God for the day that has just
87 3,2 | David, Have mercy on me, O God... (Ps. 51) and the moving
88 3,2 | consists of glorification of God and His Saints. A Canon
89 3,2 | the Day or the Mother of God and shortly after, the hymns, “
90 3,2 | of the angels who glorify God, night and day. A primary
91 3,2 | exclamation, “Blessed is our God...” and the usual introductory
92 3,2 | of Bethlehem, “Glory to God in the Highest, and on earth
93 3,2 | exclamation, “Blessed is our God...,” and then two Royal
94 3,2 | at this point, “Glory to God in the Highest...” (the
95 3,2 | all hostile actions, on God's help.~The Six Psalms (
96 3,2 | beginning of Vespers) and then “God is the Lord and hast revealed
97 3,2 | His coming and prayed to God for mercy, listening in
98 3,2 | the joys of the life with God that rejoices the soul,
99 3,2 | who would wage war against God and His Church shall be
100 3,2 | in honor of the Mother of God (Theotokion). These are
101 3,2 | Apostles and the Mother of God, as well as entreating the
102 3,2 | Vespers, the Litya prayer, “O God, save Thy people...” is
103 3,2 | hymn as an announcement of God's judgments upon the Israelites.
104 3,2 | praise the Lord....” All God's creatures are summoned
105 3,2 | with the words, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth
106 3,2 | own Psalms. In it we thank God for the light of day which
107 3,2 | Son and Immortal Word of God...”), as well as the Beatitudes (
108 3,3 | signifying the Mother of God, and placed at the Lamb'
109 3,3 | Physicians, 8) the Ancestors of God, Joachim and Anna, the Saint
110 3,3 | readings from the Word of God. This, of course, was taken
111 3,3 | peace, seasonable weather, God's help for travelers, the
112 3,3 | Incarnation of the Son of God — “Only-begotten Son and
113 3,3 | Son and Immortal Word of God....”~During the singing
114 3,3 | Blessed art Thou, O Christ our God, Who hast revealed the fishermen
115 3,3 | the Trisagion Hymn: “Holy God! Holy Mighty! Holy Immortal,
116 3,3 | singing of the Angels: “Holy God! Holy Mighty! Holy Immortal!”
117 3,3 | Isaiah, who saw the Throne of God surrounded by the holy angels,
118 3,3 | And on the seventh day God finished His work which
119 3,3 | veneration for the Word of God 'and as a symbol of the
120 3,3 | a symbol of the Light of God which emanates from the
121 3,3 | after hearing the Word of God, we should pray to Him with
122 3,4 | minister at the Throne of God even as the Cherubim minister
123 3,4 | Christians, may the Lord God remember....” The Chalice
124 3,4 | book) is our confession of God the Father, and an extensive
125 3,4 | Gifts must be offered to God in spiritual peace, as this
126 3,4 | this Sacrifice is made to God not only for us, but from
127 3,4 | Eucharistic Sacrifice on God's part is His great mercy
128 3,4 | our reconciliation with God through Our Savior; while
129 3,4 | part it is our praise of God's Majesty, revealed in the
130 3,4 | Jesus Christ, the love of God the Father, and the communion
131 3,4 | gifts and blessings from God the Almighty.~In order to
132 3,4 | and heavenly, to Our Lord God: “Let us lift up our hearts!”
133 3,4 | enters into communion with God. As the Lord Himself says,
134 3,4 | heart, for they shall see God (Matt. 5:8). The Congregation
135 3,4 | striving after the heavenly, God's Throne, and God Himself.~
136 3,4 | heavenly, God's Throne, and God Himself.~Following the example
137 3,4 | our Savior, Who thanked God the Father at the Last Supper (
138 3,4 | Faithful to give thanks to God: “Let us give thanks to
139 3,4 | exclamation, “In the fear of God and with faith, draw near!”
140 3,4 | Christ, the Son of the living God, Who earnest into the world
141 3,4 | Mystical Supper, O Son of God, accept me today as a communicant
142 3,4 | The servant (handmaid) of God (name) partakes of the precious
143 3,4 | and Blood of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ,
144 3,4 | quietly, “Blessed is our God.../'and then aloud, “Always,
145 3,7 | is to offer up prayers to God in uttered heightened speech
146 3,7 | we assemble together as God's People.~This tradition
147 3,9 | the end of Vespers, after “God is the Lord...” and the
148 3,0 | strength) to service of God. By making the Sign of the
149 3,1 | first-created man, loving God of his own free will, dwelt
150 3,1 | blessedness of communion with God, in the angelic state of
151 3,1 | living union of love with God. That is, he held in scorn
152 3,1 | observed in the praise of God and must be in accordance
153 3,3 | Scripture, for the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but
154 3,6 | willful departure from God's house, a life of wantonness,
155 3,6 | state, repentance, return to god the Father and divine forgiveness?
156 3,6 | lot of those who turn from God, and those who return to
157 3,8 | the Paschal verses, “Let God arise...,” while the Faithful
158 3,8 | man be devout and Coves God, let him enjoy this fair
159 3,8 | It took a body, and met God face to face. It took earth
160 3,8 | they dedicated the bread to God, divided it amongst all
161 3,8 | dedicated this bread to God, we eat of it and preserve
162 4,1 | Theotokos and Mother of God. This day is seen as one
163 4,1 | mystical Incarnation of God the Word.~The first Old
164 4,1 | Bethel, meaning house of God. The Most-Pure Mother of
165 4,1 | The Most-Pure Mother of God is seen here as that ladder
166 4,1 | her womb. She who carried God in her womb is truly Bethel,
167 4,1 | other than the house of God...and the gate of heaven (
168 4,1 | descendant of King David, to whom God had promised that from the
169 4,1 | more fervently beseeched God, humbly trusting in His
170 4,1 | to Jerusalem to offer to God in the Temple, was not received
171 4,1 | to bring a sacrifice to God. This greatly grieved the
172 4,1 | in prayer sadly beseeched God to grant her a child. In
173 4,1 | Joachim also prayed to God about this.~The prayers
174 4,1 | according to the promise of God, a daughter was born to
175 4,1 | Nativity of the Mother of God pre-announced the approaching
176 4,1 | and comforting promise of God concerning the salvation
177 4,1 | Righteousness, Christ our God, has shone from you, O Theotokos!
178 4,2 | may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that
179 4,3 | a state of intimacy with God — something that all of
180 4,3 | Savior — for she will bear God the Word — the God-Man —
181 4,3 | dedicated to the service of God. Thus, when the Most-Holy
182 4,3 | strengthened by the power of God, she quickly climbed the
183 4,3 | dedicated to the service of God.~A deep mystery covers the
184 4,3 | that this is known only to God Himself and the Archangel
185 4,3 | growing up with love towards God.~In remembrance of the Entry
186 4,3 | pre-announcing the Incarnation of God on earth, proclaims salvation
187 4,3 | prelude of the good will of God, of the preaching of the
188 4,3 | Treasure of the glory of God, is presented today to the
189 4,3 | Spirit, which the angels of God do praise. Truly this woman
190 4,4 | The Nativity of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ (
191 4,4 | and submit yourselves, for God is with us!”~The Christmas
192 4,4 | the heavenly host praising God and saying, “Glory to God
193 4,4 | God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth
194 4,4 | glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and
195 4,4 | Thy Nativity, O Christ our God, has shone to the world
196 4,4 | for our sake the eternal God was born as a little child!~ ~
197 4,5 | he had fallen away from God by disobeying His commandments.~
198 4,5 | fields, singing “Glory to God in the Highest, and on earth
199 4,6 | The Theophany of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ. (
200 4,6 | public manifestation of God the Word Incarnate to the
201 4,6 | said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, Who takes away the sin
202 4,6 | and He was the Spirit of God descending like a dove,
203 4,6 | that this is the Son of God” [John 1:32-34].~In commemoration
204 4,6 | of His word. O Christ our God, Who hast revealed Thyself
205 4,7 | in his arms and blessed God and said, “Lord, now lettest
206 4,7 | manifestation of the Grace of God as His Only-Begotten Son,
207 4,7 | Way of the Cross of his God: “for mine eyes have seen
208 4,7 | hour she gave thanks to God, and spoke of Him to all
209 4,7 | Mary, we bind them over to God. Baptized and sanctified
210 4,7 | Righteousness, Christ our God, enlightening those who
211 4,7 | Simeon's hands, O Christ God. Now Thou hast come and
212 4,8 | eternal mystery! The Son of God becomes the Son of the Virgin
213 4,8 | humble yes to the will of God overthrew the disobedience
214 4,8 | angel Gabriel was sent front God to a city of Galilee named
215 4,8 | you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive
216 4,8 | Most High; and the Lord God will give to Him the throne
217 4,8 | called holy, the Son of God. And behold, your kinswoman
218 4,8 | called barren. For with God nothing will be impossible” [
219 4,8 | eternal mystery! The Son of God becomes the Son of the Virgin
220 4,9 | Christ, the Son of the living God” (Matt. 16:16). Shortly
221 4,9 | had beheld the presence of God, as the Readings at the
222 4,9 | the mountain for, although God sometimes reveals Himself
223 4,9 | characteristic of those closest to God. Such was the case of Moses,
224 4,9 | case of Moses, who spoke to God face to face: When Moses
225 4,9 | he had been talking with God. And when Aaron and all
226 4,9 | close relationship with God. So, too, we all have the
227 4,9 | signs of those closest to God. In any case, as St. Paul
228 4,9 | transfigured on the Mount, O Christ God, revealing Thy glory to
229 4,9 | Thou transfigured, O Christ God, and Thy disciples beheld
230 4,0 | assumption of the Mother of God. As part of the Inner Tradition
231 4,0 | that insofar as the son of God assumed human nature in
232 4,0 | alone was the Mother of God, her body did not see the
233 4,0 | leave the body and go to God as soon as possible, since
234 4,0 | triumph of the Mother of God over death — that bodily
235 4,0 | The Most-Blessed Mother of God was filled with unspeakable
236 4,0 | servants, but that her son and God Himself would fulfill His
237 4,0 | honoring her as the Mother of God.~Returning home, the Most-Blessed
238 4,0 | decease of the Mother of God. In turn St. James informed
239 4,0 | Divine. At the command of God, angels seized the Apostles
240 4,0 | the Most-Holy Mother of God. Later the Apostle Paul,
241 4,0 | the soul of the Mother of God as she went in the arms
242 4,0 | Most-Pure Body of the Mother of God to the Garden of Gethsemane,
243 4,0 | heavenly hosts praising God and blessing His Immaculate
244 4,0 | His Immaculate Mother.~By God's special arrangement, one
245 4,0 | the body of the Mother of God was not there, but only
246 4,0 | the Immaculate Mother of God surrounded by a multitude
247 4,0 | cried: “Most Holy Mother of God, help us!” From that time
248 4,0 | the Immaculate Mother of God on the third day after her
249 4,0 | Falling-asleep of the Mother of God so that the tomb might be
250 4,0 | resurrection of the Mother of God, just as previously through
251 4,0 | Most-Blessed Lady the Mother of God, the burial of her undefiled
252 4,1 | grieved because He knew that God's chosen Jewish people were
253 4,1 | universal resurrection, O Christ God! Like the children with
254 4,1 | Thee in Baptism, O Christ God, we were made worthy of
255 4,1 | foal on earth, O Christ God! Accept the praise of angels
256 4,2 | Prophets, and men pleasing to God could enter Heaven. No one
257 4,2 | appear in the presence of God on our behalf (Heb. 9:24).
258 4,2 | Advocate for the world with God — Christ Our Lord.~Our Lord
259 4,2 | sacrifice was accepted by God and Christ the Lamb that
260 4,2 | ushered into the preserve of God where He will be eternally
261 4,2 | of the great mercies of God, capable and ready to receive
262 4,2 | Feast (Tone 4).~O Christ God, Thou hast ascended in Glory,
263 4,2 | that Thou art the son of God, the Redeemer of the world!~ ~
264 4,2 | ascend in glory, O Christ our God, not being parted from those
265 4,3 | the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour
266 4,3 | reminding them that this Jesus God raised up, and of that...
267 4,3 | exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from
268 4,3 | Blessed art Thou, O Christ our God, Who hast revealed the fishermen
269 4,4 | looking for the kingdom of God. This man went to Pilate
270 4,4 | Father and your Father, to My God and your God.” Mary Magdalene
271 4,4 | Father, to My God and your God.” Mary Magdalene went and
272 4,4 | and how, though Himself God, He had taken human flesh
273 4,4 | the great revelation of God's truth and life eternal
274 4,4 | call himself a child of God; it is the return of Paradise
275 4,4 | life and communion with God. St. Paul tells us that
276 4,4 | forefather's disobedience to God, sin took possession of
277 4,4 | didst Thou arise, O Christ God, proclaiming “Rejoice” to
278 4,4 | Resurrection; for Thou art our God, and we know no other than
279 4,5 | and Veil of the Mother of God) and there raised their
280 4,5 | deliverance. They thanked God and sang hymns to the One
281 4,5 | protection, and imploring God's mercy upon the people.~
282 4,6 | the awesome judgment of God which the Holy Fathers called
283 4,6 | seen to be the bearers of God's image and power by the
284 4,6 | whose name means Like unto God. He is mentioned by name
285 4,6 | serve before the throne of God (Rev. 8-10) and take part
286 4,7 | According to the covenant which God made with Abraham, God said
287 4,7 | which God made with Abraham, God said to Abraham, “As for
288 4,7 | and desires to the will of God. As St. Paul says, in the
289 4,8 | were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments
290 4,8 | then the miraculous hand of God intervened. One day, while
291 4,8 | mothers at the intervention of God. But we find an even greater
292 4,8 | that this is the Son of God” (John 1:34).~ ~
293 4,9 | council to preach the Word of God.~According to St. John Chrysostom,
294 4,9 | feared: that he might offend God! He desired nothing more
295 4,9 | more in life than to please God and the whole meaning of
296 4,0 | glory of the Kingdom of God. Even so great a prophet
297 5 | desert to live alone with God. (Such were also called
298 5 | rather than the will of God. It was the desire to be
299 5 | be independent, to be as God in a manner that would free
300 5 | of my universe, and not God.~Pride and self-will can
301 5 | humble attitude towards God is genuine only if accompanied
302 5 | fellow-men. Obedience to God is empty unless one is able
303 5 | and self, but of love of God and the desire to set aright
304 5 | spiritually through prayer to God. And thus is was that it
305 5,1 | Angels in Heaven, glorifying God night and day and striving
306 5,1 | wherein the Monk loves God with a perfect love — in
307 5,1 | whether he gives himself to God of his own will, whether
308 5,1 | Father, with the help of God,” the Abbot then exhorts
309 5,1 | perfect self-consecration to God. Indeed, the first act of
310 5,2 | salvation and how love of God must be greater than love
311 6,1 | inwardly unchanging (since God does not change), Tradition
312 6,1 | Church,” in The Church of God, pp. 64-5].~ ~
313 6,2 | teaching was that the Son of God was created — that His existence
314 6,2 | servant and fulfiller of God's wishes” as well as other
315 6,2 | I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker
316 6,2 | Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Only-begotten, begotten
317 6,2 | ages. Light of Light; True God of True God; begotten, not
318 6,2 | Light; True God of True God; begotten, not made; of
319 6,3 | Concerning God's Essence and the Creation
320 6,3 | the dogmatic truths about God's Essence and the Creation
321 6,3 | us to believe in the One God (Deut. 6:4; 1 Tim. 1:17)
322 6,3 | Holy Scriptures are called God the Father, God the Son,
323 6,3 | are called God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy
324 6,3 | Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (Matt. 28:
325 6,3 | Holy Spirit (Matt. 28:19). God the Father is ungenerated
326 6,3 | proceed from another Person. God the Son is pre-eternally
327 6,3 | generated by the Father. God the Holy Spirit pre-eternally
328 6,3 | in Divinity. The Triune God is The One Who IS (Ex. 3:
329 6,3 | after goodness, glorify God continuously (Ps. 103:20;
330 6,3 | Is. 6:3), and carry out God's commandments. Each Christian
331 6,3 | goodness, sinned before God (Jude 1:6) and, remaining
332 6,3 | incorporeal beings, the Triune God with His Words “Let there
333 6,3 | man, created sinless by God's grace (Eccles. 7:29),
334 6,3 | like unto the angels of God, but he was also made in
335 6,3 | the Image and Likeness of God (Gen. 1:26) from the moment
336 6,3 | with pure love for the One God, while his conscience was
337 6,3 | 2:8). The first man kept God's commandment and lived
338 6,4 | Concerning the Son of God — the Savior of the World.~
339 6,4 | teaching of faith in the Son of God — the Savior of the World —
340 6,4 | 16), the mystery of His [God's] will (Eph. 1:9). The
341 6,4 | Only-begotten Son (John 1:18) of God, descended from Heaven,
342 6,4 | without ceasing to be True God (Rom. 9:5).~Two Natures —
343 6,4 | the Theotokos (Mother of God) (Luke 1:43), who is “more
344 6,4 | of the true knowledge of God (John 1:18) and having disclosed
345 6,4 | sits at the right hand of God the Father (Mark 16:19)
346 6,4 | Heaven as the God-Man, for as God He was always in Heaven
347 6,4 | Heaven and in every place of God's dominion (Ps. 103:22).
348 6,4 | 3:15) and the Kingdom of God on earth (Mark 1:15). This
349 6,5 | Holy Spirit as the True God, the Third Person (Hypostasis)
350 6,5 | faith in the Holy Spirit as God in the definition of the
351 6,5 | deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face
352 6,5 | Holy Spirit is the True God (Acts 5:3-4). He is glorified
353 6,5 | partaker in life eternal in God.~The distinctive property
354 6,5 | is that He proceeds from God the Father, Who, according
355 6,5 | Prophets and the chosen men of God, proclaimed the Lord's Truth
356 6,5 | Lord's Truth and Will to God's people, and disclosed
357 6,5 | Holy Spirit, spoke from God (2 Pet. 1:21).~The action
358 6,5 | world that the fullness of God's saving grace was made
359 6,6 | that full union of man and God takes place, and this union
360 6,6 | Church are justified by God's grace (Rom. 3:24-30) and
361 6,6 | Rom. 3:24-30) and saved by God's power (Rom. 1:16) through
362 6,6 | indicating the real union of God and man in Christ.~On one
363 6,6 | one hand, as founded by God, the Church received her
364 6,6 | gives mankind true life in God.~The Church serves to establish
365 6,6 | establish the Kingdom of God on earth, for she was preordained
366 6,6 | leaven for the Kingdom of God (Matt. 13:33). The Church
367 6,6 | the Church of the living God, Who is Truth itself. Therefore
368 6,6 | grace, life according to God — life upheld by God in
369 6,6 | to God — life upheld by God in her, God's help and His
370 6,6 | life upheld by God in her, God's help and His promises.
371 6,6 | teach the unity of all in God: There is one body and one
372 6,6 | faith, one baptism, one God and father of us all, who
373 6,6 | If we love one another, God abides in us and His love
374 6,6 | fulfillment of the will of God, of His Holy Commandments.~
375 6,6 | substitute for faith in God. To believe in the Church
376 6,6 | the abode of the grace of God throughout all ages, world
377 6,6 | Church does not believe in God either. The Christian's
378 6,6 | her takes place through God's ordination. All that has
379 6,6 | the Church is obedience to God, and by serving the Church
380 6,6 | serving the Church he serves God and earns His approval.~
381 6,7 | the beginning of life in God. Baptism restores the image
382 6,7 | Baptism restores the image of God in man and bestows the saving
383 6,7 | created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and
384 6,7 | Baptism men are reconciled to God, cleansed from the impurities
385 6,7 | members of the household of God (Eph. 2:19), and children
386 6,7 | 2:19), and children of God (John 1:12).~Just as the
387 6,7 | Through the action of God's sanctifying grace in the
388 6,7 | cannot enter the kingdom of God (John 3:5). Baptism, therefore,
389 6,7 | and sanctifying him before God, Divine Grace makes him
390 6,7 | Grace makes him a son of God, a member of the Body of
391 6,7 | Holy Name of the Triune God — the Father, the Son, and
392 6,7 | through a life pleasing to God, for Christ our Savior says:
393 6,7 | is impossible to please [God] (Heb. 11:6). The basis
394 6,7 | Jesus Christ, in the Triune God, in the Divine Economy of
395 6,7 | communion and union with God. It preserves a man from
396 6,7 | Prayerful communion with God rewards the person praying
397 6,7 | future total union with God in His Kingdom.~Prayer must
398 6,7 | but his sin is erased by God, as well, and he attains
399 6,7 | Savior not only revealed God to man and drew us closer
400 6,8 | his sinful disobedience to God, man deprived himself of
401 6,8 | that through the action of God's omnipotence all the bodies
402 6,8 | from my flesh I shall see God, Whom I shall see for myself,
403 6,9 | A man is responsible to God for the life that he has
404 6,9 | death he shall also be with God, ceaselessly experiencing
405 6,9 | of living communion with God which we who live on earth
406 6,9 | Heaven or the Kingdom of God (Matt. 5:3-10,8,11; Luke
407 6,9 | the fullness of knowing God and from the nearness of
408 6,9 | and from the nearness of God. That is why Christ our
409 6,9 | know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ Whom Thou
410 6,9 | and redeemed by the Son of God's death, are illumined by
411 6,9 | illumined by a light coming from God, the Source of Light, Life
412 6,9 | remain outside communion with God at death, deprived of Light
413 6,9 | Seek first [the kingdom of God] and His righteousness,
414 6,0 | and there received from God two tablets of stone, upon
415 6,0 | upon which were written by God's hand the Ten Commandments (
416 6,0 | I am the LORD your God, Who brought you out of
417 6,0 | the name of the LORD your God in vain; for the LORD will
418 6,0 | Sabbath to the LORD your God; in it you shall not do
419 6,0 | land which the LORD your God gives you (20:12). “You
420 6,0 | our obligations towards God, while the second contains
421 6,0 | shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and
422 6,0 | there was only one true God (“monotheism”), the Creator
423 6,0 | acknowledge Him and honor Him as God, directing that nothing
424 6,0 | anyone or anything else as god. As the Psalmist proclaims,
425 6,0 | our Maker! For He is our God, and we are the people of
426 6,0 | shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you
427 6,0 | serve gods other than the God of all. As St. Paul says,
428 6,0 | says, although [men] knew God they did not honor Him as
429 6,0 | they did not honor Him as God or give thanks to Him....
430 6,0 | the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal
431 6,0 | tells us is due only to God.~Despite what literalists
432 6,0 | and worship due solely to God. The devotion that we, as
433 6,0 | quite apart from that due to God and such was the teaching
434 6,0 | the name of the LORD your God in vain.”~This commandment
435 6,0 | reverence and respect towards God's holy name. We are forbidden
436 6,0 | We are forbidden to use God's name vainly and to swear
437 6,0 | profane the name of your God (Lev. 19:12). As St. James
438 6,0 | conversations the name of God, of Jesus (Himself God),
439 6,0 | of God, of Jesus (Himself God), of His Mother and of the
440 6,0 | especially for the name of God and His Son — when, as St.
441 6,0 | when, as St. Paul tells us, God has...bestowed on Him the
442 6,0 | render special honor to God on His special day — the
443 6,0 | day — the Sabbath — for God blessed the seventh day
444 6,0 | Church — the New People of God in the New Dispensation —
445 6,0 | the Lord's command to love God with all one's heart, soul
446 6,0 | land which the LORD your God gives you.”~Above all we
447 6,0 | no authority except from God.... Pay all of them their
448 6,0 | indeed. Life is given by God and only God has the absolute
449 6,0 | is given by God and only God has the absolute right to
450 6,0 | every man bears the Image of God within himself. It is for
451 6,0 | made in the likeness of God (James 3:6,8-9). How many
452 6,0 | you, which you have from God (1 Cor. 6:15, 18-20)?~When
453 6,0 | heart, for they shall see God (Matt. 5:8). This is because
454 6,0 | will inherit the kingdom of God (1 Cor. 6:9-10).~Rather
455 6,0 | to accept whatever state God places us in and not to
456 6,0 | state and place our trust in God alone: Let every one lead
457 6,0 | assigned to him, and in which God has called him.... Every
458 6,0 | there let him remain with God (1 Cor. 6:17,20,24). Envy
459 6,1 | again, born of the Spirit of God, and in Samaria He taught
460 6,1 | in Samaria He taught of God as Spirit and of the worship
461 6,1 | are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these
462 6,1 | signs that you do, unless God is with him (John 3:2).~
463 6,1 | cannot see the Kingdom of God (John 3:3). Nicodemus misunderstood
464 6,1 | cannot enter the Kingdom of God. That which is born of the
465 6,1 | for man, as the Image of God, is called to live continuously
466 6,1 | to live continuously with God and in God. Birth through
467 6,1 | continuously with God and in God. Birth through grace is
468 6,1 | was the Christ, the Son of God come down from Heaven, and
469 6,1 | blessing, lies in the fact that God so loved the world that
470 6,1 | respond to this saving love of God first and foremost with
471 6,1 | in Christ, as the Son of God and the Savior of mankind,
472 6,1 | were in darkness and sought God's Truth, so that they should
473 6,1 | the Logos — the Word of God — and of those who did not
474 6,1 | power to become children of God; who were born, not of blood
475 6,1 | the will of man, but of God (John 1:12-13). In these
476 6,1 | mysteries, that of birth from God and that of the power to
477 6,1 | power to become the sons of God.~Children inherit from their
478 6,1 | attributes. And what do God's spiritual sons inherit
479 6,1 | inherit such attributes of God's grace as love, holiness,
480 6,1 | and purity. The gifts of God are received through the
481 6,1 | speaking of the worship of God, He said that the true worshipers
482 6,1 | spirit and truth, [because] God is spirit, and those who
483 6,1 | Here, when He states that God is Spirit, Jesus is saying,
484 6,1 | St. John Chrysostom, that God is incorporeal and that
485 6,1 | revealed His teaching about God as Spirit and about the
486 6,1 | the spiritual worship of God by those who believe. In
487 6,1 | and illumining grace of God, leading to faith in Christ,
488 6,1 | faith in Christ, the Son of God and the Savior of the World.
489 6,2 | salvation, for we are bound to God, not by the soul, but by
490 6,2 | through the spirit that God's good will descends upon
491 6,2 | of man that the Image of God is most truly reflected.
492 6,2 | Our spirit trembles before God when it establishes contact
493 6,2 | meditation, reading the Word of God, in the Sacraments, Divine
494 6,2 | which separates man from God and will know that God is
495 6,2 | from God and will know that God is all — that within ourselves
496 6,2 | giving oneself entirely to God and to others.~Only by sacrificing
497 6,2 | fullness of life lived for God and for others. And to find
498 6,2 | And to find ourselves in God and in others, we must lose
499 6,2 | Our spirit, renewed in God, knows that human life belongs
500 6,2 | their insignificance before God. As Abraham said of himself,
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