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2001 6,0 | 1 Kings 10:19-20).~The key point of this commandment
2002 1,9 | commemorated May 11), first to the Khazar State north of the Caucasus (
2003 1,0 | Bulgars, the Judaism of the Khazars (on the lower Volga), the
2004 1,0 | siege to the Greek city of Kherson. He promised to accept Christianity
2005 Intro | Orthodox theologian, A. Khomiakov so eloquently asserts:~ ~
2006 7,2 | Radonezh and Barlaam of Khutinsk, tearfully beseeching them
2007 10,1 | There, her loyalty and kindliness won her the love of Boaz (
2008 4,8 | son. And her neighbors and kinfolk heard that the Lord had
2009 4,8 | of God. And behold, your kinswoman Elizabeth [the mother of
2010 1,5 | Diocese, headed by Bishop Kiril of Toledo, was joined to
2011 4,0 | reverence the Holy Apostles kissed the burial clothes, praying
2012 5,1 | them back to the Abbot, kissing his hand. Then the Abbot
2013 2,4 | Chrismation, and also a Sick-Call Kit (the Ciborium) within which
2014 7,2 | Icon in the flames of the kitchen fire, before which she heard
2015 6,0 | the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and
2016 6,0 | worship and bow down and kneel before the LORD, our Maker!
2017 4,0 | into His holy hands. As she knelt, the olive trees growing
2018 2,5 | This is a lance-shaped knife, representing the spear
2019 8,3 | the whole body, joined and knit together by every joint
2020 11,1 | cross made of two planks knocked together in the shape of
2021 6,3 | St. Irenaeus says, “the knot of Eve's disobedience was
2022 5,2 | chotki in Russian) with many knots, to count prayers and prostrations
2023 10 | books were written in the koine or common Greek of the time,
2024 9,6 | and patronal saint's days.~Koliva (grain or rice, cooked with
2025 7,2 | on the Oka River beyond Kolomna. The fearful inhabitants
2026 9,7 | is given the Prayer Rope (Komvoschoinlon — Chotki), the Abbot says,
2027 5,2 | pointed hat and veil called Koukoulion or Cowl (often called a “
2028 7,2 | meet the miraculous Icon at Kuchkovo Field, Tamerlane had a vision
2029 3,8 | Pascha bread (in Russian — Kulich), as well as specially-prepared
2030 3,8 | special Paschal breads, called kulichi are broken and eaten on
2031 9,6 | victory over the Tatars on Kulikovo Field (in the present-day
2032 1,3 | Bishop of Kamchatka, the Kuriles, and the Aleutian Islands.
2033 7,2 | of Dionysius-Glushetsk, Kursk, Seraphimo-Ponetaevskaya,
2034 1,4 | Archangel in Sitka by the laborers of the Russian-American
2035 8,4 | past the point of satiety, lacked sobriety and been drunken,
2036 10,3 | who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.
2037 2,5 | Chalice also belongs a small Ladle (Zeon) with which the mixed
2038 4,4 | where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one
2039 3,1 | a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, “
2040 3,2 | originally were called the Lamp-lighting Prayers, since the lamps
2041 5,2 | Cross of Christ with the lance, reed and sponge, and the
2042 2,5 | order.~ ~Spear.~This is a lance-shaped knife, representing the
2043 1,0 | who defended monastic landholding. The Non-Possessors were
2044 4,6 | at the Local Council of Laodicea, a few years before the
2045 6,0 | over, will be put into your lap (Luke 6:35,38). Rather than
2046 8,4 | held that those who had lapsed should be re-baptized —
2047 1,5 | succeeded by Bishop Stephen (Lasko), who joined the Albanian
2048 3,1 | this service literally lasts all night (from early evening
2049 8,4 | or envy!~How often have I laughed stupidly, mocked and derided,
2050 8,4 | talk and speech, jokes and laughter, games and fun, and how
2051 1,1 | monasteries, the oldest (Great Lavra) dating to the beginning
2052 1,3 | American-born Priest, Prokopy Lavrov, was ordained in 1810, but
2053 4,0 | said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother'
2054 6,2 | prophets who condemned their lawless life, and persecuted and
2055 8,1 | which, in extreme cases, a layman can also perform (both a
2056 6,2 | our sympathy. They are the Lazaruses of our lives (Luke 16:14-
2057 8,4 | indifferent, praying little, lazily, and indolently, inattentively
2058 11,2 | to teach the Trinity. The leaf is one, yet distinct, equal,
2059 1,1 | loved (John 13:23), and who leaned on his Master's breast at
2060 9,8 | the events of the Bible he learns to perceive God and seek
2061 6,6 | Truth and to become the leaven for the Kingdom of God (
2062 3,3 | mixed with plain water, and leavened. On the top of each loaf
2063 3,1 | the Feast — is called the Leavetaking.~ ~Services of the Daily
2064 5,1 | waiting. Before him stands a lectern upon which are laid a Cross
2065 10,2 | Greek philosophy. It is a lecture on religious reason, as
2066 7,2 | sick and wounded in the Lefortovsky Court. After the victory
2067 3,3 | interpreted with the strict legalism of the Pharisees of Holy
2068 10,3 | which the ascetical and legalistic tendencies are counteracted
2069 1,5 | in that year by the Papal Legate, Cardinal Humbert, it was,
2070 10 | prose and poetry, myth and legend, folk tale and history,
2071 7 | the Icons are not remote, legendary figures from the past, but
2072 1,3 | policy even further when he legislated Christianity as the only
2073 10,1 | entitled “The Words of Lemuel, King of Massa”; and Appendix
2074 6,0 | tells us to do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return;
2075 1,0 | Non-Possessors were more lenient and gentle concerning the
2076 1,0 | Hermitage under the Elders Leonid, Macarius, Amvrosy and Joseph,
2077 6,0 | profane the name of your God (Lev. 19:12). As St. James tells
2078 4,2 | he destroyed the city and leveled the Temple on Mt. Moriah,
2079 6,2 | awareness of God, on the highest levels of spiritual attainment,
2080 1,1 | St. Matthew (also called Levi the son of Alphaeus (Mark
2081 1,1 | Yugoslavia with its more liberal policies.~ ~Cyprus.~This
2082 1,1 | This was after a certain liberalization following World War II!)
2083 6,2 | of the Ladder tells us, “liberates the soul from all earthly
2084 4,7 | Temple at Jerusalem, and the Liberator and Redeemer of the world
2085 1,4 | all of the books in the library dealing with history and
2086 1,1 | then through Mauretania and Libya, preaching the Gospel of
2087 1,3 | Constantine and his fellow Emperor Licinius issued the Edict of Milan,
2088 8,4 | done!~How many times have I lied, deceived, been cunning
2089 6,1 | something mechanical or lifeless, however. Tradition is a “
2090 3,2 | the true meaning of this light-symbolism are together the central
2091 8,4 | God in vain!~How often, lightly and freely, at times even
2092 4,4 | His appearance was like lightning, and his raiment white as
2093 10,3 | hospitality, while Diotrephes, who liked to put himself first (vs.
2094 11,2 | Ship: The Church has been likened to a great ship bearing
2095 10,3 | about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field) how they grow;
2096 9,3 | Father, St. John, did not limit conversation with God in
2097 9,3 | taught by reason of his limitations and sinfulness that he cannot
2098 1,3 | local in character and of limited duration, and although there
2099 3,4 | Holy Table) and wrapped in linens (the Aer), which also symbolizes
2100 6,0 | was supported by carved lions and had a carved calf's
2101 3,8 | omitted. It also contains a list of Feasts and Saint's days
2102 3,1 | 15)~ ~All of the Feasts listed above, with the exception
2103 6,0 | only to God.~Despite what literalists might say, however, this
2104 7,2 | fell under the rule of the Lithuanian princes. The daughter of
2105 7,2 | appeared in Russia in the llth-12th Century, recalling the wondrous
2106 7,2 | was especially venerated locally as a miracle-working Icon.
2107 10,1 | 400-350 B.C. He views a locust plague which ravished the
2108 4,6 | waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey. Then went
2109 7,2 | written, which was then lodged in the Tower of the Smolensk
2110 3,4 | considering this to be the loftiest moment in the Prayer. In
2111 8,2 | Savior Jesus Christ. Such a lofty gift of the Holy Spirit,
2112 7,1 | people. He was not able logo to Him because of the great
2113 6,1 | Evangelist, speaking of the Logos — the Word of God — and
2114 11,1 | of Liturgy and Worship. London, 1972, pp. 185-186]. By
2115 9,4 | hundred prostrations during lonely home prayer. Why is this
2116 1,3 | When asked if he was ever lonesome, Fr. Herman answered, “No,
2117 8,4 | with all the Saints to the longed-for Kingdom of Heaven.~The following
2118 10,3 | Letter) to the Romans is the longest and most weighty, theologically,
2119 3,6 | 250 verses expressing the longings of a guilty and penitent
2120 9,8 | Ps. 27:8; 63:1) as a hart longs for flowing streams (Ps.
2121 6,2 | way. And the reward for longsuffering is the Kingdom of God, which
2122 11,1 | Coptic): This Cross with a loop at the top appeared in Egyptian
2123 3,4 | the Resurrection of the Lord-is the climax of the Church'
2124 11,1 | time of devotions.~Cross Of Lorraine: This has two horizontal
2125 6,2 | extinguished — the threat of losing our salvation — and within
2126 6,3 | Orthodox theologian, Vladimir Lossky writes: “It is hard to speak
2127 10,3 | grumblers, malcontents, and loud-mouthed boosters (vs. 16), worldly
2128 1,5 | founded in New Orleans, Louisiana. Immigration from Greece
2129 3,1 | the first-created man, loving God of his own free will,
2130 9,8 | Ps. 18:1-2). The Psalmist lovingly refers to God as his Shepherd,
2131 9,2 | eyes fixed on the icon or lowered to the ground, while, at
2132 6,2 | treat each other with all lowliness and meekness, because these
2133 10,1 | illustrate how faithful Jews, loyally practicing their religion,
2134 2,7 | Nabedrennik — or Epigonation) or lozenge-shaped (Palitsa). The Nabedrennik
2135 6,7 | oldest Christian writings (lst-2nd Centuries), says in Chapter
2136 3,3 | meals in a factory or school lunchroom. In cases of uncertainty,
2137 6,0 | person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.
2138 6,2 | that purity of heart hates luxury, laziness, bodily beauty,
2139 3,7 | part-singing appeared in Lvov and began to spread in Southern
2140 1,4 | In 1867, Bishop Peter (Lyaskov) of Sitka was succeeded
2141 1,1 | he preached the Gospel in Lycaonia, India and Armenia, where
2142 10,2 | 161 B.C.), paralleling 1 Mac. 1:10-7:50. The author is
2143 1,9 | St. Cyril). Using a local Macedonian dialect which they had heard
2144 1,4 | Spiritsmashers) and the Macedonians (followers of Macedonius),
2145 1,5 | Orthodox church was built in Madison, Illinois, in 1907. In 1922,
2146 6,0 | talk, pornographic books, magazines, movies, T.V. programs,
2147 10,2 | Media, revealing to him magic formulas which would heal
2148 3,2 | followed by a short verse (the Magnification) magnifying the person or
2149 7,2 | on Sept. 21, 1164, in the magnificent Dormition Cathedral, where
2150 3,2 | of John the Baptist, who magnified the Lord in spiritual songs.
2151 4,5 | Feast of your Protection, we magnify you!”~ ~
2152 7 | without form, quantity and magnitude, Who was incomparable owing
2153 7,2 | Moscow from the forces of Mahmet-Girei, Khan of the Crimean Tatars,
2154 11,1 | another symbol for Christ (Mai. 4:2).~ ~The Four Evangelists.~
2155 8,7 | heads by the best man and maid of honor, but in many places (
2156 4,3 | on My menservants and My maidservants in those days I will pour
2157 1,2 | bore it all to the end, maintaining his stand, and with this
2158 1,1 | played by the late Archbishop Makarios, who ruled Cyprus as President,
2159 1,2 | entourage, including Hieromonk Makary and Hierodeacon Stephen
2160 10,1 | prepare the way before Me... (Mal. 3:1).~ ~
2161 10,3 | 11). They are grumblers, malcontents, and loud-mouthed boosters (
2162 6,4 | tribulations (Luke 9:58), to malice, humiliation, and persecution (
2163 6,0 | so to speak, not only by malicious talk, but also by merely
2164 11,1 | named for the island of Malta (the place where St. Paul
2165 1,2 | Simeon I. Yanovsky, Chief Manager of the Russian Colonies
2166 2,4 | use of the Antimension is mandatory, even on Holy Tables which
2167 1,4 | in Godhead and perfect in manhood, [is] truly God and truly
2168 3,2 | to the people one of the manifestations of the Risen Savior to His
2169 7,2 | now fulfils her promise — manifesting quick help and consolation
2170 Intro | of the Holy Spirit, Who manifests His grace in the Sacraments.
2171 1,5 | headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and is divided
2172 2,7 | sleeves (nor do any monastic Mantiyas), symbolizing for all Monks (
2173 5,2 | Monk is given the Mantiya (mantle or cloak), a long, sleeveless
2174 10,3 | Because important early manuscripts and Church Fathers make
2175 1,4 | became deeply involved in the many-sided work of the American Mission
2176 5 | already experienced. A soldier marching into battle would much rather
2177 1,5 | Russia, in 1926, a Bishop, Mardary (Uskokovich) was consecrated
2178 10,6 | Earliest Christian Hymns.~Ave Maria (“Rejoice, O Virgin Theotokos...”)............
2179 3,6 | this week — the Sixth — marks the end of Great Lent and
2180 7,1 | taken, sank in the Sea of Marmora. According to another, the
2181 8,7 | except for unchastity, and marries another, commits adultery (
2182 8,7 | persons to enter into the martial union and reflects Old Testament
2183 4,7 | His father and His mother marveled at what was said about Him;
2184 3,2 | no longer tear away his marveling eyes. Our eyes are lifted
2185 6,2 | neighbor.~The saints offer us marvelous examples of meekness. Once
2186 10,1 | God's signs. Yet, God was marvelously guiding, sustaining, and
2187 6,3 | Mother of God, ed. E.L. Mascall, p.35].~ ~
2188 10,1 | Words of Lemuel, King of Massa”; and Appendix 5 (Ch. 31:
2189 1,5 | Greek Priest in Boston, Massachusetts, the Albanians there selected
2190 1,2 | secular subjects, such as mathematics, carpentry, agriculture,
2191 4,1 | Anna, was the daughter of Matthan, and through her father
2192 8,4 | Confessor once he had reached a mature age. In many monasteries
2193 1,1 | and Africa, then through Mauretania and Libya, preaching the
2194 6,5 | Father, Who, according to St. Maximus the Confessor, “confers
2195 10,1 | immorality and shallow, meaningless piety. The book is divided
2196 | meantime
2197 | Meanwhile
2198 7,2 | Russian people began to take measures to aid the homeland. At
2199 2,4 | of cloth, gold in color, measuring about 18 by 24 inches, and
2200 3,2 | Days.~ ~Paschal Cycle:~1. Meatfast — the week before the beginning
2201 6,1 | the past] is not something mechanical or lifeless, however. Tradition
2202 9,2 | Mechanics of Prayer.~The Church of
2203 Intro | and God's saving power is mediated to man in His Body, the
2204 3,2 | ascend to heaven without the mediation of Christ the Son of God,
2205 3,2 | that the Theotokos was the Mediatrix of our salvation.~At the
2206 10,1 | but has been a healing medicine. The book is divided into
2207 8,3 | St. Nicholas Cabasilas, a medieval Orthodox teacher, the Church'
2208 9,8 | teachings upon which he meditates, for Psalms of a contemplative
2209 10,1 | Wisdom Psalms (which are meditations on life and the ways of
2210 1,5 | hegemony of the Arabs over the Mediterranean and their expansion into
2211 4,7 | compare, than the Seraphim,” meekly to the Temple at Jerusalem,
2212 7,2 | the Novodevichy Convent, memorializing the return of Smolensk to
2213 4,3 | dream dreams; yea, and on My menservants and My maidservants in those
2214 6,2 | the need for peace among mer. If you are offering your
2215 8,4 | miserly, unsympathetic, mercenary and grasped at attention!~
2216 7,2 | Icon, the selfless soldier, Mercurius, defeated a mighty Mongol
2217 6,6 | consists in the gradual merging of our life with the life
2218 9,8 | Psalms have such indisputable merits, especially in prayer, that
2219 1,4 | 1915, Archbishop Evdokim (Meschersky) replaced Archbishop Platon
2220 1,4 | basically in Persia and Mesopotamia, and were especially decimated
2221 2,4 | usually made of precious metals adorned with jewels. At
2222 2,5 | struck, and repeating this method several times. It is used
2223 8,6 | Originally a Metropolitan (from metropolis) was the Bishop of the capital
2224 1,4 | initiated. In 1870, Bishop John (Metropolsky) was appointed and he transferred
2225 1,0 | Calendar of Saints.~In the mid-17th Century there occurred in
2226 3,3 | in the usual way, around mid-day and in the evening, with
2227 7 | f776), who wrote in the Mid-Eighth Century at the height of
2228 3,6 | Saturday — and after the mid-point of the Great Lent, a special
2229 5 | middle path of monasticism, midway between the extreme rigors
2230 10,1 | containing tales about the migration of the Tribe of Dan (Ch.
2231 1,3 | Licinius issued the Edict of Milan, which proclaimed the official
2232 6,2 | one forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles (
2233 6,2 | one mile, go with him two miles (Matt. 5:40-41). The main
2234 7,2 | all the people and the militia took upon themselves a three-day
2235 3,6 | animal products (including milk, cheese, eggs, butter, as
2236 5 | the monasteries for over a millennium and a half. They came to
2237 3,2 | her, passing through the millenniums by Divine Providence in
2238 6,0 | for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck
2239 3,2 | was given much incense to mingle with the prayers of all
2240 3,4 | communicated, partaking of the mingled Holy Body and Blood by means
2241 4,6 | the birth of Jesus; angels ministered to Him in the wilderness
2242 4,6 | tells us, Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to serve,
2243 8,5 | Paul speaks of various ministries in the Church (1 Cor. 12:
2244 1,4 | established in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and a bilingual (English-Russian)
2245 8,4 | and sin, all my hours and minutes in vain thoughts, desires
2246 6,2 | he had punished for some misdeed and who was angry with him.
2247 8,4 | mocked or gloated over his misdeeds, his faults or his misfortunes;
2248 8,4 | cupidity, love of money and miserliness, unmercifulness and cruelty;~
2249 8,4 | need, been uncharitable, miserly, unsympathetic, mercenary
2250 3,6 | house, a life of wantonness, misery at our fallen state, repentance,
2251 3,8 | sixth hour, let him have no misgivings; because he shad in no way
2252 7,2 | Smolensk, headed by Bishop Mishael, the Icon was festively
2253 10,3 | addition, there were some misunderstandings concerning the Second Coming
2254 6,1 | God (John 3:3). Nicodemus misunderstood these words and took them
2255 10,3 | matters (2:18), advocated a mixture of ascetical and ritual
2256 10,1 | the marriage of Ruth (a Moabitess — a foreigner) to a Hebrew
2257 4,1 | now in old age. Scorn and mockery was their lot, for at that
2258 4,2 | endured by His disciples — mockings, scourgings, imprisonment
2259 2,5 | center of the church.~This mode of ringing is also used
2260 3,7 | adapted the verbo-melodic models to the natural rhythmic
2261 9,2 | evening prayers. This is a moderate rule and is of special help
2262 8,4 | away by a second baptism. Moderation, in the course of time,
2263 6,0 | even for shock effect. We moderns have such disrespect for
2264 2,5 | ringing of bells in three modes, three times repeating a
2265 6,2 | is angered by no one, is modest and virtuous. He is a stranger
2266 5 | desert solitude was gradually modified by the appearance of disciples.
2267 8,4 | absolution, introduced by Peter Moghila, Metropolitan of Kiev and
2268 1,9 | rise of the Wallachian — Moldavian principalities in the 14th
2269 1,3 | death.~In 312, however, a momentous event occurred, for in that
2270 10,1 | the story of the Hebrew Monarchies. Chapters 1-17 describe
2271 3,3 | Wednesdays and Fridays (Mondays also, in some monasteries)
2272 5,1 | Schema as the culmination of Monkhood, wherein the Monk loves
2273 11,1 | as a missionary symbol.~Monograms~Alpha And Omega: These are
2274 7,2 | presented to his son, Vladimir Monomach, who presented it to the
2275 3,7 | music remains basically monophonic (single-line unison singing).
2276 5 | monastic implies (in Greek monos — alone), the Monk was one
2277 1,4 | Council met to condemn the Monothelite heresy which held that in
2278 9,7 | as these? Even the most monotonous task can be transformed
2279 1,9 | Dalmatia, Illyria, Bosnia and Montenegro, but these areas were, for
2280 10,3 | teachings of a speculative and moralistic nature. Thus it offers suggestions
2281 10,3 | counteracted by a spiritual morality and social ethic bound together
2282 10,1 | the book, which, after a moralizing introduction (Ch. 2:6-3:
2283 | Moreover
2284 4,2 | leveled the Temple on Mt. Moriah, not leaving even a stone
2285 6,1 | ourselves, and exterminate and mortify our unreasonable desires.”
2286 1,5 | Hierarch, Bishop Polycarp (Morusca) was consecrated for the
2287 1,0 | in their temple, called a mosque, while they stand ungirt.
2288 10,7 | The Annunciation to the Most- Heb. 2:11-18 Luke 1:24-38~
2289 4,2 | celebrates the Exaltation of the Most-Precious Cross of the Lord. The Savior
2290 10,1 | fish comprise one of the most-remembered of the books of the Prophets —
2291 5 | and obedience can best and most-safely be acquired through the
2292 10,1 | return to Judah with her mother-in-law, Naomi, to share the fortunes
2293 1,4 | this action was set into motion before the formal granting
2294 6,2 | human spirit is the chief motivating force of our salvation,
2295 4,9 | reports [Conversation with Motovilov].~In like manner, we all
2296 10,3 | all faith; so as to remove mountains; But have not love; I am
2297 4,1 | coming to you, humble, and mounted on an ass, and on a colt,
2298 6,0 | pornographic books, magazines, movies, T.V. programs, etc., as
2299 9,6 | swallowed by earthquake, murdered, or consumed by fire, grant
2300 1,2 | risen up and followed his murderers, saying something to them.
2301 4,1 | a shame. But they never murmured and only the more fervently
2302 10,1 | precariously, are constantly murmuring. They are pictured as faithless,
2303 7,2 | where, with many tears the Muscovites had bid farewell to the
2304 3,7 | great interest among Church musicians to return to the traditional
2305 1,9 | with the baptism of Prince Mutimir († 891), Serbia became officially
2306 2,6 | church, in memory of the Myrrh-bearers who proceeded with burning
2307 4,6 | Resurrection is announced to the Myrrhbearers by angels. They are closely
2308 1,1 | of Mary, one of the Holy Myrrhbearing Women (Mark 16:1). According
2309 11,1 | this is one of the most mysterious moments of the Eucharist.
2310 6,7 | endowed with Divine Grace in a mystic way during his Baptism.
2311 10,3 | speculation and oriental mysticism.~The letter is divided into
2312 10 | forms: prose and poetry, myth and legend, folk tale and
2313 11,2 | lost.~Phoenix: This is a mythical bird which at death bursts
2314 4,2 | found three crosses and four nails, as well as the sign board
2315 8,4 | reveal and expose in all its nakedness each one of my sins, great
2316 | namely
2317 5 | appointed (called, in Russian, Namestnik or one who acts in the name
2318 10,1 | with her mother-in-law, Naomi, to share the fortunes of
2319 4,4 | linen cloths lying, and the napkin, which had been on His head,
2320 5,1 | Inner Riasa is simply a narrow-sleeved robe reaching to the ankles (
2321 4,4 | Christianize the pagan Feast of Natalis Invicti or Invincible Sun,
2322 10,2 | Judith.~This pious, yet nationalistic tale was probably written
2323 10,3 | various backgrounds and nationalities, the members of this community
2324 9,5 | called the Father of our natural-human world and the Heavenly Father — “
2325 11,2 | the Latin word for ship, navis.~Ten Commandments: These
2326 11,1 | Crucified Christ. Iesus Nazaremus Rex Indaeorum: Jesus of
2327 1,4 | Cappadocian Fathers, St. Gregory Nazianzus (the Theologian), St. Basil
2328 6,2 | New Testament Church, the nearer they drew to God, the stronger
2329 3,8 | opening words of the Irmos, necessitating the use of the Irmologion,
2330 10,2 | since that word may have negative meanings.~The Deutero-canonical
2331 8,4 | my laziness, indolence, negligence, love of comfort, weakness,
2332 1,4 | administration of Bishop Alexander (Nemolovsky) of Canada. He was formally
2333 10,3 | time of the persecutions of Nero.~ ~Second Peter.~This brief
2334 1,4 | Siberia was ended, with Bishop Nestor (Zakkis) being appointed
2335 1,4 | Christians adhering to either the Nestorian or Monophysite view. The
2336 1,3 | the help of Father Jacob Netsvetov (a Creole, one of mixed
2337 4,2 | about Christ the Savior and nevermore recollect the place where
2338 | Nevertheless
2339 1,0 | this period: St. Alexander Nevsky, Prince of Novgorod († 1263 —
2340 4,0 | Russia (Aug. 13)~The Holy New-Martyrs of Alaska: Peter the Aleut
2341 4,8 | whom the Creator becomes a newborn child! Rejoice, Unwedded
2342 1,4 | well, so that, with these newly-acquired skills, they were able to
2343 1,3 | Island, for he saw them as newly-born children in the faith, who
2344 7,2 | Icon was transferred to the newly-completed Church of the Holy Trinity.~
2345 1,4 | Bishop Aftimos to replace the newly-deceased Bishop Raphael, continuing
2346 1,4 | dedicated in 1902), and the newly-elevated Archbishop Tikhon was now
2347 11,1 | Holy Spirit upon him. A newly-erected church building is transformed
2348 8,7 | the Marriage Service the newly-married couple drink from the same
2349 1,2 | himself and said, “Holy newly-martyred [Peter], pray to God for
2350 1,4 | native Alaskans, to the newly-returned Uniates, as well as to the
2351 3,5 | Churches do not follow the Nicean Council's decree that Pascha
2352 11,1 | abbreviated. The letters NIKA are translated victor or
2353 7,2 | two blind men, joseph and Nikita, were healed, making this
2354 1,0 | and Peter, wishing no more Nikons, refused to allow the appointment
2355 11,2 | white, with a three-rayed nimbus descending, is the most
2356 1,1 | in the 4th Century by St. Nina, Equal-to-the-Apostles (†
2357 3,5 | Passover (14th day of the Month Nissan). The Full Moon used for
2358 11,2 | since, like the Ark of Noah, all can find life in the
2359 6,2 | take thought for what is noble in the sight of all (Rom.
2360 7,2 | Volynia, stopped to visit the noblewoman Anna Goiskaya, on her estate
2361 7,2 | Tatars, who, united with the Nogai and Kazan Tatars, as well
2362 4,0 | suddenly there was heard a loud noise, like thunder, and a cloud
2363 10,3 | But nave not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal
2364 1,1 | Constantinople again, at least nominally, became independent after
2365 6,3 | brought into being from non-being both the invisible and the
2366 6,2 | them.~It is hard for the non-Christian to understand how one can
2367 6,8 | is not annihilation and non-existence, but the gate to life and
2368 1,1 | Africa, most of whom are non-Greek Christians in Central Africa (
2369 6,1 | man as compared with the non-spiritual, the natural man, the man
2370 5 | central community became the norm of monasticism and the solitary
2371 7,2 | St. Tikhon of Zadonsk in northeastern Pennsylvania.~ ~Of the Sign (
2372 8,2 | Chrism the forehead, eyes, nostrils, mouth, ears, breast, hands
2373 6,2 | good quietly and without notice. This virtue is as difficult
2374 2,2 | they imitate. Especially noticeable in traditional Orthodox
2375 1,5 | attempts to do so, most noticeably at the Council of Lyons
2376 7,2 | Constantinople. Later it was noticed that a radiance sprang from
2377 6,3 | Council in Ephesus). This notion does not actually contradict
2378 11,1 | sacrifice with which they are nourished, none of these things is
2379 4,1 | birth to the Theotokos, the Nourisher of our Life.~ ~
2380 8,7 | hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ
2381 1,2 | consisted of eight Monks and two Novices, together with ten Alaskan
2382 7,2 | the other, in 1524, in the Novodevichy Convent, memorializing the
2383 3,7 | Faithful assemble in the now-darkened church for the reading of
2384 1,3 | the consecration of the now-widowed Priest, Fr. John Veniaminov,
2385 | nowhere
2386 3,7 | natural inflections and nuances of word-groupings. From
2387 1,2 | Juvenaly left Kodiak for Nuchek, where he baptized more
2388 8,4 | senselessly, and uttered a numberless quantity of cutting, poisonous,
2389 9,1 | their turn lead to spiritual numbness. For prayer to be fruitful
2390 10,1 | 15-33) — a collection of numerical proverbs; Appendix 4 (Ch.
2391 7,2 | this time, a certain pious Nun, who was blind, had a vision.
2392 10,6 | Luke 2:14~Nunc Dimittis (“Lord, now lettest
2393 1,4 | labored to establish and nurture this Church, is the very
2394 1,5 | influenced by legal ideas nurtured by the basic concepts of
2395 6,0 | earth or with any other oath, but let your yes be yes
2396 5,1 | struggling to perform the obediences given to him and preparing
2397 3,3 | Gospel, called Prosphora (oblations) made of wheat flour, mixed
2398 5,1 | of Riasaphor is under no obligation to advance further in the
2399 3,3 | as non-Orthodox, or one obliged to take meals in a factory
2400 8,2 | bestowed in Chrismation, obliges the person being anointed
2401 2,1 | most common shape is an oblong or rectangular shape, imitating
2402 Pref | explaining things, that is observably the faith of our fathers,
2403 10,3 | performance of good works, ritual observances and the like (2:16; 3:24-
2404 7,2 | the whole Russian Church observes to this day. For 186 years
2405 6,2 | with sin and with all the obstacles which are to be met with
2406 8,4 | Baptism, forgiveness could be obtained and the sinner reconciled
2407 8,6 | Orthodox Church in America, OCA). The head of the autocephalous
2408 9,7 | and to those who are only occasional users of it, the Jesus Prayer
2409 Intro | which the Holy Eucharist occupies the central place.~Only
2410 2,4 | not permitted to enter. Occupying the central place in the
2411 3,1 | which are not repeated, occurring only once in a person's
2412 2,1 | eternity) or in the shape of an octagon, signifying a star, for
2413 3,0 | smell the characteristic odor of the incense. The whole
2414 1,5 | succeeded by Bishop Aftimos (Ofeish), who was consecrated in
2415 4,9 | be feared: that he might offend God! He desired nothing
2416 6,2 | humility. He who is meek offends no one, is angered by no
2417 8,3 | prays: “For Thou art the Offerer and the Offered, the Receiver
2418 5 | commanded by an experienced officer than an inexperienced one,
2419 4,0 | banquet for his courtiers and officers and the leading men of Galilee.
2420 9,4 | love and of prayer with the officiating priests. That is why the
2421 7 | asserts: Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that
2422 10,3 | letter, sent to Titus (an oft-mentioned companion of Paul in the
2423 4,4 | and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested
2424 7,2 | and took his stand on the Oka River beyond Kolomna. The
2425 2,3 | still preserved by Russian Old-Believers), but quite early it was
2426 4,2 | Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem,
2427 10,1 | judgment must come, but the ominous future (later, the unhappy
2428 6,8 | through the action of God's omnipotence all the bodies of the dead
2429 6,3 | 27), Everywhere-present (Omnipresent) (Jer. 23:24), All-Wise (
2430 6,3 | Rom. 11:33), All-Knowing (Omniscient) (1 John 3:20), All-Good (
2431 7,2 | unfurling her white and shining omophor, surrounded by heavenly
2432 Pref | effort to gather from an on-going tradition of piety that
2433 2,5 | Psalm 119), usually about one-half hour before the Liturgy.~ ~
2434 3,4 | Holy Spirit, the Trinity, One-in-Essence, and Undivided!” The Deacon
2435 10,3 | 61-63 A.D. (Acts 28:30)), Onesimus, a runaway slave, came under
2436 10,2 | time of the High Priest Onias III and the Syrian King
2437 2,1 | churches is the presence of onion-shaped domes on top of the cupolas.
2438 1,4 | the Islamic and Turkish onslaughts, whereas the Monophysites
2439 8,3 | omnipotent, but in the manner of operation unsearchable” [On the Orthodox
2440 1,7 | Great and was a leading opponent of the Arians. He has been
2441 9,7 | whatever, there are many opportunities to engage in prayer. And
2442 6,2 | for our salvation, for God opposes the proud, but gives grace
2443 5 | the acquisition of their opposites: humility and obedience.
2444 6,2 | helpful. If anyone torments or oppresses us by making fun of us or
2445 1,0 | especially popularized at the Optino Hermitage under the Elders
2446 1,7 | of his Five Theological Orations.~ ~St. Gregory, Bishop of
2447 11,1 | the catacombs.~Cross And Orb: This is a Cross resting
2448 10,3 | be surprised at the fiery ordeal which has come upon them.
2449 4,8 | all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. But
2450 1,5 | and in November, 1937, Fr. Orestes Chornock was elected Bishop,
2451 3,4 | heart is that spiritual organ through which man perceives
2452 Intro | the Church is based on an organic bond between the hierarchy
2453 6,9 | Sacraments in His God-Man organism of the Church, then after
2454 1,5 | American Diocese. After much organizational activity, Bishop Polycarp
2455 1,5 | the Patriarch of Serbia to organize a Serbian Diocese in America.
2456 4,4 | Righteousness, and to know Thee, the Orient from on high. O Lord, Glory
2457 10,3 | philosophic speculation and oriental mysticism.~The letter is
2458 1,4 | separation. Certain teachings of Origen, including his teaching
2459 5 | community of Scetis which originated this form. The skete life
2460 1,5 | States was founded in New Orleans, Louisiana. Immigration
2461 2,7 | reason this rug is called an Orlets (eaglet)) reminds the Bishop
2462 7,2 | Goiskaya, on her estate of Orlya, not far from Pochaev. In
2463 1,3 | about 100 students) and four orphanages for girls (about 60). All
2464 8,3 | mind” [P. N. Evdokimov, L'Orthodoxie, p. 241]. Thus the Eucharist
2465 10,1 | of the individual Judges: Othniel (Ch. 3:7-11), Ehud (Ch.
2466 1,1 | gradual crumbling of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th Century,
2467 Intro | is no salvation for the outcast (with the conditions outlined
2468 1,3 | religion of the Empire, while outlawing paganism.~In 324, Constantine
2469 1,3 | central place in the spiritual outlook of these warriors for Christ.
2470 1,2 | development of this new outpost of the Russian Empire, the
2471 4,4 | but the other disciples outran Peter and reached the tomb
2472 10,3 | tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe
2473 1,4 | antagonistic to their Russian overlords. He learned their language
2474 10,2 | up the battle between the overpowering forces of paganism and helpless,
2475 4,8 | power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child
2476 4,9 | said this, a cloud came and overshadowed them; and they were afraid
2477 4,8 | humble yes to the will of God overthrew the disobedience of the
2478 8,4 | brother, caused him grief overtly and covertly, mocked or
2479 4,8 | to the angel and with it overturns the curse of the First Parents:
2480 5 | monasticism and thus, the overwhelming majority of Orthodox monastic
2481 1,0 | recognition of the debt owed by the Russian Church to
2482 7 | magnitude, Who was incomparable owing to the superiority of His
2483 6,0 | supported by twelve bronze oxen (1 Kings 7:25) and the King'
2484 Intro | presented in the following pages concerning this Church of
2485 8,4 | my life; my soul will be painfully sundered from my sinful
2486 7,2 | as if it had just been painted, and the dust of the earth
2487 2,2 | with Icons and frescoes or paintings, before many of which are
2488 1,0 | especially popularized by Paisius Velichkovsky and his Philokalia,
2489 4,1 | Like the children with the palms of victory, we cry out to
2490 7,2 | enveloped the invaders and in panic they took to flight, in
2491 1,1 | Silouan († 1938) of St. Panteleimon's Russian Monastery and
2492 8,4 | originally printed in the Athos Paper of 1907, and translated
2493 10,1 | Chronicles (1st and 2nd Paralipomenen in the Orthodox Bibles)
2494 10,2 | Nicanor's army (180-161 B.C.), paralleling 1 Mac. 1:10-7:50. The author
2495 3,2 | Old Testament Readings (Paramaea — Parable) which are read
2496 3,8 | for his iniquities, for pardon has shone forth from the
2497 4,2 | Lord had said. Our first parent, Adam, closed the Gates
2498 3,8 | are to be found within the parentheses.~ ~The Old Testament lessons,
2499 8,5 | the married (white or parochial) clergy and the monastic (
2500 3,7 | single-line unison singing). But part-singing appeared in Lvov and began
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