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501 6,5 | and the teaching of the Church Fathers in the spirit and
502 6,5 | the founding of Christ's Church — Pentecost — when He descended
503 6,5 | Holy Spirit abides in the Church as Christ Himself bears
504 6,5 | 14:16).~Everything in the Church is filled with the Holy
505 6,5 | in every sacrament of the Church and extends to all forms
506 6,5 | sanctifying moment in the Church's daily liturgical service,
507 6,5 | of the Holy Spirit. The Church prays that through Holy
508 6,6 | Catholic, and Apostolic Church.~The Holy Church was founded
509 6,6 | Apostolic Church.~The Holy Church was founded by our Lord
510 6,6 | The purpose of Christ's Church is the salvation of man.
511 6,6 | of man. It is only in the Church that full union of man and
512 6,6 | Holy Blood He founded the Church (Acts 20:28), so that in
513 6,6 | salvation outside of the Church.~We are brought to the Church
514 6,6 | Church.~We are brought to the Church by faith in the Lord Jesus
515 6,6 | that He would found the Church on the confession of faith (
516 6,6 | 16:18). Members of the Church are justified by God's grace (
517 6,6 | faith (James 2:17-26).~The Church is One as the Lord Who founded
518 6,6 | is One (John 10:18). The Church is Holy, for she lives,
519 6,6 | Acts 1:5; 8:15; 9:17). The Church is Catholic, for her flock
520 6,6 | catholicity is dominant. The Church is Apostolic, for she keeps
521 6,6 | 15).~St. Paul calls the Church the mystical Body of Christ (
522 6,6 | and this definition of the Church as Christ's Body is not
523 6,6 | but an expression of the Church's real mystical life, indicating
524 6,6 | as founded by God, the Church received her being and exists
525 6,6 | other hand, however, the Church is a community of people
526 6,6 | changeable and imperfect, but the Church is Holy and Divine because
527 6,6 | mankind true life in God.~The Church serves to establish the
528 6,6 | of God (Matt. 13:33). The Church is the pillar and bulwark
529 6,6 | the truth, for she is the Church of the living God, Who is
530 6,6 | Himself, teach only one Church; they teach the unity of
531 6,6 | 4:4-6).~The unity of the Church is founded on the mutual
532 6,6 | of all the members of the Church: If we love one another,
533 6,6 | love that we constitute the Church, the true Body of Christ,
534 6,6 | spirit that the unity of the Church is achieved.~The unity of
535 6,6 | achieved.~The unity of the Church exists by the power of the
536 6,6 | of all the members of the Church with Christ and between
537 6,6 | 16-17).~The unity of the Church is protected by the Canons
538 6,6 | the Holy Fathers of the Church, and Holy Tradition. The
539 6,6 | contradict the unity of the Church. The fact that they are
540 6,6 | one body of the Universal Church, or from sharing the One
541 6,6 | the traditions of every Church, and always show one another
542 6,6 | concern in mutual love.~If the Church is a unity, she is also
543 6,6 | and His Holy Blood. The Church is sanctified by the power
544 6,6 | prayers (John 17:11-19). The Church is also holy by virtue of
545 6,6 | dwelling permanently in the Church, fills her with His sanctifying
546 6,6 | of Saints in the Orthodox Church is a living testimony to
547 6,6 | testimony to the sanctity of the Church. This is a proof of the
548 6,6 | in the souls of men. The Church is also holy through the
549 6,6 | remains a member of the Church. Our sinfulness is outside
550 6,6 | sinfulness is outside the Church. Some individuals remain
551 6,6 | remain members of Christ's Church by virtue of the rudiments
552 6,6 | individuals.~Faith in the Church is not a substitute for
553 6,6 | in God. To believe in the Church is to believe that she is
554 6,6 | 21).~To have faith in the Church means to venerate in piety
555 6,6 | venerate in piety the true Church of Christ and to obey her
556 6,6 | is the Body of Christ the Church is fully in possession of
557 6,6 | the divine Founder of the Church, Who taught men to have
558 6,6 | abides, and which we call the Church.~Faith in Christ leads us
559 6,6 | in Christ leads us to the Church, and life in Christ is life
560 6,6 | in Christ is life in the Church. Thus, he who does not believe
561 6,6 | does not believe in the Church does not believe in God
562 6,6 | impossible without faith in the Church, without abiding in the
563 6,6 | without abiding in the Church. It is impossible to understand
564 6,6 | with Christ without the Church, for our salvation is not
565 6,6 | life with the life of the Church, that is, the Body of Christ.
566 6,6 | the Body of Christ. The Church regenerates and renews all
567 6,6 | accidental or arbitrary in the Church. Everything in her takes
568 6,6 | has been prescribed by the Church is and must be law for each
569 6,6 | Christian also believes in the Church because obedience to the
570 6,6 | because obedience to the Church is obedience to God, and
571 6,6 | God, and by serving the Church he serves God and earns
572 6,6 | inspires man with faith in the Church through His grace by drawing
573 6,6 | him into the life of the Church. The Christian feels the
574 6,6 | whole order of Orthodox Church life; and as he lives this
575 6,6 | Catholic and Apostolic Church.~ ~
576 6,7 | Man becomes a child of the Church through the Sacrament of
577 6,7 | and acts of grace of the Church, which lead him to deification.~
578 6,7 | every man who enters the Church. Only through Baptism can
579 6,7 | the Body of Christ — the Church — and an heir to Eternal
580 6,7 | grace to the Sacrament. The Church always administers Baptism,
581 6,7 | task of every member of the Church. For a Christian the path
582 6,7 | membership in Christ's Church, and a constant sense of
583 6,7 | and in the Holy Orthodox Church. Living faith in Christ
584 6,7 | through constant prayer in church and at home. Prayer is a
585 6,7 | a man is a member of the Church, the Body of Christ. In
586 6,7 | the Body of Christ. In the Church he is made one with Christ.
587 6,8 | Resurrection of the dead,” the Holy Church confesses that through the
588 6,8 | with Him in the body of the Church, which is at once human
589 6,8 | 8:20-21).~The Orthodox Church's prayers for the dead are
590 6,9 | world to come” the Holy Church means the life that shall
591 6,9 | God-Man organism of the Church, then after his death he
592 6,0 | into two.]~ ~According to Church Tradition, the first four
593 6,0 | was the teaching of the Church Fathers, especially St.
594 6,0 | it (Gen. 2:3). The early Church — the New People of God
595 6,0 | Day — the Holy Orthodox Church commands us not to perform
596 6,0 | other holy Feast Days of the Church, whether or not they fall
597 6,2 | saints of the New Testament Church, the nearer they drew to
598 6,2 | Tears during prayer at Church and at home are beneficial,
599 6,2 | home are beneficial, but in Church it is better to hide one'
600 6,2 | Sacraments and the prayers of the Church. Blessed are those who hunger
601 6,2 | prayers and Sacraments of the Church (especially in Holy Communion),
602 6,3 | and piety of the Orthodox Church, a special place of honor
603 6,3 | in the theology of the Church, both God and Man, at one
604 6,3 | strict sense. The Orthodox Church has always seen brothers
605 6,3 | Thus Mary is seen by the Church as the New Eve (as Christ
606 6,3 | although not dogmatized by the Church, she did fall under the
607 6,3 | share one day.~Whereas the Church has officially proclaimed
608 6,3 | the Inner Tradition of the Church. As the noted Orthodox theologian,
609 6,3 | the mysteries which the Church keeps in the hidden depths
610 6,3 | those who were within the Church.... It is not so much an
611 7 | non-Orthodox visitor to an Orthodox church is the prominent place assigned
612 7 | Altar from the rest of the church is covered with them, while
613 7 | prominent places throughout the church building. Sometimes even
614 7 | anti-icon) controversies in the Church, controversies which were
615 7 | centuries of Christianity. Church Tradition tells us, for
616 7 | witnesses that the Orthodox Church had a clear understanding
617 7 | brought to the world by the Church both in word and in image.
618 7 | their natural place in the Church, despite the Old Testament
619 7 | truth transmitted to the Church, we prefer grace and truth,
620 7 | the world.~ ~The Orthodox Church, then, created a new art,
621 7 | expresses the teaching of the Church in conformity with the word
622 7 | the living members of the Church [Militant] on earth and
623 7 | who have passed on to the Church [Triumphant] in Heaven.
624 7 | the very meaning of the Church's existence on earth, since
625 7,1 | earliest Icons witnessed to by Church Tradition, is the Icon of
626 7,1 | was placed in the Pharos Church of the Most-Holy Theotokos.~
627 7,1 | in the Russian Orthodox Church there is a pious custom
628 7,1 | custom that before entering a church, the faithful read together
629 7,2 | iconostasis of the monastery church of the Russian Orthodox
630 7,2 | commanding him to take from the Church of the Transfiguration on
631 7,2 | which the whole Russian Church observes to this day. For
632 7,2 | the Icon remained in the Church of the Transfiguration on
633 7,2 | Ilinoi Street; but in 1356, a Church of the Sign of the Most-Holy
634 7,2 | Novgorod, next to the Cathedral Church of the Monastery of the
635 7,2 | of the Way, according to Church Tradition was written by
636 7,2 | the Icon in the Blachernae Church.~The Greek Emperor Constantine
637 7,2 | by the Russian Orthodox Church (commemorated Nov. 24).~
638 7,2 | was erected there a wooden church and in 1802 one of stone.~
639 7,2 | Holy Objects of the Russian Church and the faithful have received
640 7,2 | Tikhvin.~According to Church Tradition, this Icon was
641 7,2 | placed in the Blachernae Church. In 1383, about 70 years
642 7,2 | the Icon vanished from the church and with luminous rays of
643 7,2 | was constructed a wooden church in honor of the Dormition
644 7,2 | 1533) constructed a stone church in place of the wooden one.
645 7,2 | monastery was erected by the church, enclosed by a stone wall.~
646 7,2 | was established by the Church in memory of its wondrous
647 7,2 | Image was placed in the church erected in honor of the
648 7,2 | transferred to the newly-completed Church of the Holy Trinity.~The
649 7,2 | instituted by the Russian Church for July 23 in memory of
650 7,2 | on May 21, the Russian Church again commemorates the Icon
651 7,2 | Century. The Holy Orthodox Church at that time was profoundly
652 7,2 | Mother of God. According to Church Tradition, to save the Icon
653 7,2 | Holy Table of the Monastery Church , was soon found to have
654 7,2 | Most-Holy Theotokos.~In the Church Calendar, the Iberian Icon
655 7,2 | of the Russian Orthodox Church.~ ~Kazan.~In 1579, during
656 7,2 | Icon was brought to the Church of St. Nicholas in Kazan,
657 7,2 | place of the appearance, a church in honor of the Kazan Icon
658 7,2 | the Martyr, July 8, the Church decreed that henceforth
659 7,2 | who was the Priest at the Church of St. Nicholas in Kazan
660 8 | Sacraments of the Orthodox Church, like the Church Herself,
661 8 | Orthodox Church, like the Church Herself, can be said to
662 8 | the Sacraments, the Holy Church takes things that are material,
663 8 | Customarily, in the Orthodox Church we speak of Seven Sacraments,
664 8,1 | Sacraments of the Orthodox Church is occupied by Holy Baptism,
665 8,1 | of Eternal Wisdom — the Church — for, without it, a man
666 8,1 | become a member of His Church, receive the other Sacraments,
667 8,1 | Christ, a member of Christ's Church and through the Sacrament
668 8,1 | baptized. Thus the Orthodox Church holds Baptism to be as necessary
669 8,1 | Having become a member of the Church through Baptism, infants
670 8,1 | the belief of the Orthodox Church, is given to all, and of
671 8,1 | Baptism (Eph. 4:5). The Church teaches one Baptism because
672 8,1 | or more). According to Church tradition, the sponsor for
673 8,1 | united to the flock of the Church.~2. The Exorcism, which
674 8,1 | supplemented according the Church Order, i.e., the Priest
675 8,2 | Chrismation the new member of the Church not only receives the Spirit
676 8,2 | new member's joining the Church, making him an equal among
677 8,2 | usually by the Primate of the Church, on Holy Thursday and then
678 8,3 | Sacraments of the Orthodox Church is held by the Holy Eucharist —
679 8,3 | celebrated in the Orthodox Church at the following Liturgies:~
680 8,3 | and with each other as a church, for, as St. Paul says,
681 8,3 | Christ is the head of the Church, His body, and is Himself
682 8,3 | Only by belonging to the Church, or in other words, being
683 8,3 | regarded as a member of the Church of Christ?” by saying, “
684 8,3 | stressed by the Fathers of the Church. St. Ignatius of Antioch,
685 8,3 | and external unity of the Church, but is also the means for
686 8,3 | separate from Christ the Church, that is, the people that
687 8,3 | people that make up the Church, firmly and unshakeably
688 8,3 | whereas entrance into the Church begins with Holy Baptism,
689 8,3 | medieval Orthodox teacher, the Church's understanding of the Eucharist
690 8,3 | According to the Orthodox Church, then, the Eucharist is
691 8,3 | itself, in the Orthodox Church both laity and clergy always
692 8,3 | As a theologian of the Church has well put it, “You know
693 8,4 | Repentance developed early in the Church's history in the time of
694 8,4 | apostasized and fell away from the Church. Apostasy was considered
695 8,4 | be received back into the Church in their lifetime, while
696 8,4 | among the Sacraments of the Church.~After the end of the persecutions,
697 8,4 | sinner reconciled to the Church. This Sacrament acts also
698 8,4 | discipline in the early Church were a community affair
699 8,4 | and adopted by the Russian Church in the 18th Century, is
700 8,4 | yours sins.”~In the ancient Church, not all Priests had the
701 8,4 | concentration in prayer and in Church, for not observing fasts
702 8,5 | Orders.~In the Orthodox Church there are to be found three “
703 8,5 | Apostles appointed seven men (Church Tradition calls them “Deacons”)
704 8,5 | various ministries in the Church (1 Cor. 12:28). Likewise,
705 8,6 | Metropolitan (Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR),
706 8,6 | Czechoslovakia and the Orthodox Church in America, OCA). The head
707 8,6 | head of the autocephalous Church of Georgia is entitled the
708 8,6 | Bishops of long tenure) the Church of Russia still generally
709 8,6 | adhered to by the Greek Church), but in the Russian church,
710 8,6 | Church), but in the Russian church, this is more often a title
711 8,6 | Priest-monks. In the Russian Church, an Igumen ranks below an
712 8,7 | theology of the Orthodox Church man is made in the Image
713 8,7 | and multiply, so too the Church blesses the union of a man
714 8,7 | union of Christ with His Church: Wives, be subject to your
715 8,7 | Christ is the head of the Church, His body.... Husbands,
716 8,7 | wives, as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself up for
717 8,7 | cherishes it, as Christ does the Church, because we are members
718 8,7 | refers to Christ and the Church... (Eph. 5:22-25, 28-30,
719 8,7 | sanctified by the blessing of the Church. It sanctifies the intention
720 8,7 | flowers, while in the Russian Church they are usually made of
721 8,7 | Customarily in the Russian Church the crowns are held over
722 8,7 | Remarriage.~The Holy Orthodox Church does, however, permit divorce
723 8,7 | marriage, and so, too, the Church is willing to allow an exception.~
724 8,7 | While in principle the church regards the marriage bond
725 8,7 | ceased to be a reality, the Church does not insist on the preservation
726 8,7 | again after a fall, the Church does not view a second or
727 8,8 | call for the elders of the Church, and let them pray over
728 8,8 | sicknesses. Of course, the Church does not believe that this
729 9,2 | Mechanics of Prayer.~The Church of Christ teaches us prayers
730 9,2 | Fathers and Ascetics of the Church, enlightened by the grace
731 9,2 | We hear these prayers in Church during the Divine Services,
732 9,2 | burden.~In the Prayerbook the Church provides all Christians
733 9,4 | Church Prayer.~Apart from private
734 9,4 | must also participate in church prayer, conducted during
735 9,4 | Therefore our Holy Orthodox Church — our Mother — strictly
736 9,4 | By its very significance church prayer is incomparably higher
737 9,4 | have mercy” uttered in church together with the congregation
738 9,4 | is not essential to go to church to pray, that one can pray
739 9,4 | there pray as you can in church, amidst so many people,
740 9,4 | recited at home. During church prayer it is not only people
741 9,5 | the Angelic Host and the Church Triumphant-known biblically
742 9,5 | grace-bestowing Sacraments of the Church, instituted for our salvation.
743 9,5 | rule for all prayers. The Church uses it in all the sacramental
744 9,6 | The Church's Prayer for the Dead.~At
745 9,6 | Service, the Holy Orthodox Church offers up prayers for her
746 9,6 | after death, the Orthodox Church offers prayers for the departed
747 9,6 | From earliest times the Church had commanded that the departed
748 9,6 | fasting and prayer. The Church also commemorates the departed
749 9,6 | been held by the Orthodox Church since earliest times. The
750 9,6 | increase their offerings in the Church, assisting the poor and
751 9,6 | remembrance of the departed, the Church has also set aside a number
752 9,6 | day, Meatfare Sunday, the Church commemorates the Dread Judgment
753 9,6 | ancient times and here the Church especially prays for those
754 9,6 | the accepted custom of the Church to commemorate the dead
755 9,6 | dead not be deprived of the Church's saving intercession.~ ~
756 9,6 | before Holy Pentecost) the Church asks that the saving grace
757 9,6 | Departed Orthodox Warriors.~The Church has also set aside two days
758 9,6 | Baptist of the Lord, the Church prays for all who have died
759 9,7 | Primate of the Orthodox Church of Finland and a Valaam
760 9,8 | Christian times, when the Church already had new prayers
761 9,8 | wholeheartedly by the Christian Church and are used, not only for
762 9,8 | should also be noted that the Church accepted the Psalms as prayer
763 10 | Mark, Luke and John; 2) Church History — The Acts of the
764 10,1 | personal sufferings. The Church sees here a parallel between
765 10,1 | worship of the Orthodox Church and the Psalms are customarily
766 10,1 | occasions).~In the Orthodox Church, the LXX version of the
767 10,1 | Christ for His bride, the Church (e.g., Rev. 21:2, 9).~ ~
768 10,1 | highest esteem by the Orthodox Church, and is quoted and used
769 10,2 | spurious. Although the Orthodox Church accepts these books as being
770 10,2 | Ezra-Nehemiah. The Russian Church accepts both, but titles
771 10,2 | accepted by the Russian Church and is placed in an Appendix
772 10,2 | an Appendix by the Greek Church.]~ ~First Esdras.~This book (
773 10,2 | not used by the Greek Church) was probably written by
774 10,3 | he is aptly called by the Church the Theologian.~The Gospel
775 10,3 | the early history of the Church — is a continuation of the
776 10,3 | subsequent relations with this Church were disturbed from time
777 10,3 | sides, but for no other Church did Paul feel a deeper affection.
778 10,3 | disturbing the Corinthian Church, including divisions in
779 10,3 | including divisions in the Church (1:11), immorality (Ch.
780 10,3 | Paul and the Corinthian Church had deteriorated, and having
781 10,3 | made a painful visit to the Church (2:1), he refrained from
782 10,3 | cause he had written to that Church a severe and sorrowful letter
783 10,3 | bringing the good news that the Church in Corinth had repented
784 10,3 | about the offering for the Church at Jerusalem (8:1-9:15),
785 10,3 | important early manuscripts and Church Fathers make no reference
786 10,3 | completing the universal Church of Jesus Christ. Although
787 10,3 | letter the figures of the Church as the Body of Christ (1:
788 10,3 | who had been sent by the Church there with a gift for Paul (
789 10,3 | Christ in the cosmos, in the Church and in the individual is
790 10,3 | guidance in the problems of Church administration, and to oppose
791 10,3 | instructions as to the attitude of Church leaders towards false asceticism (
792 10,3 | different groups in the Church (older men, older women,
793 10,3 | the Lord and head of the Church at Jerusalem, to Jewish
794 10,3 | is used by the Orthodox Church concerning the Mystery of
795 10,3 | witness as the basis of the Church's proclamation (1:16), points
796 10,3 | 1:16-18), the Orthodox Church uses portions of 2nd Peter
797 10,3 | traditionally been attributed by the Church to St. John the Evangelist.
798 10,3 | written to one specific Church, the elect lady (vs. 1),
799 10,3 | made their way into the Church, characterized here as being
800 10,3 | Chapters 21-22. The Orthodox Church also sees in Chapter 12:
801 11,1 | Holy Apostles created the Church, the destiny of which was
802 11,1 | This process, then, is the Church's meaning and justification,
803 11,1 | of Christ. According to Church Tradition, St. Anthony the
804 11,1 | by St. Augustine; but the Church did admit a variety of forms
805 11,1 | in the Russian Orthodox Church. The first written mention
806 11,1 | Liturgical Tradition of the Church belongs the teaching of
807 11,1 | upon him. A newly-erected church building is transformed
808 11,1 | St. Andrews: According to Church tradition, this is the type
809 11,1 | by the Russian Orthodox Church and especially popularized
810 11,1 | the Roman Catholic (Latin) Church.~Graded (or Calvary): This
811 11,2 | is a common symbol of the Church, since, like the Ark of
812 11,2 | life in the safety of the Church.~Candle: Candles are used
813 11,2 | Candles are used in the Church as symbols of Our Lord Jesus
814 11,2 | same substance.~Ship: The Church has been likened to a great
815 11,2 | Heaven. The main part of the church building is called the Nave,
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