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2501 8,3 | unite us all, as many as are partakers in the one bread and one
2502 4,2 | Christ our God, not being parted from those who love Thee,
2503 1,1 | St. Thomas preached in Parthia (Persia), Edessa and India,
2504 1,9 | the Serbian Church became partially independent with his consecration
2505 10,3 | throughout the world (5:9). By participating in the sufferings of Christ (
2506 4,9 | Him. And as the men were parting from Him, Peter said to
2507 8,7 | outward token that the two partners join in marriage of their
2508 8,4 | forbidden to reveal to any third party what he has learned in Confession.~
2509 1,4 | Ohio, Bishop Theophilus (Pashkovsky) was elected the new Primate.~
2510 10,1 | The story opens with the passage of the Jordan River and
2511 1,7 | zeal for Orthodoxy and his passionate defense of the poor, boldly
2512 8,4 | spent in empty and futile pastimes and pleasures, in frivolous
2513 1,4 | Minneapolis, as well as its Pastor, Fr. Alexis Toth, into the
2514 2,7 | Tables of the Law (square patches at the neck and feet), typifying
2515 10,1 | promised to those who wait patiently for the Lord and serve Him
2516 11,2 | was supposedly used by St. Patrick of Ireland to teach the
2517 3,7 | Bortniansky, under the patronage of Catherine the Great,
2518 3,7 | beginnings, the melodic kernels, patterns and formulae have been expanded,
2519 1,1 | Hebrews is accepted as of Pauline origin) have been accepted
2520 9,7 | possible to arrange such a pause for oneself in almost any
2521 6,2 | answered thus.~We can help pave the way to meekness in ourselves
2522 6,2 | his listeners.~St. Paul pays special attention to meekness,
2523 3,2 | Light shone steadily and peacefully, drawing to itself those
2524 7,2 | shown the spot where the pearl of great price — the Mother
2525 6,2 | tears are like precious pearls, for “by God's gift the
2526 7,2 | of God, on account of the pending punishment of God on the
2527 9,1 | itself, to understand and penetrate into the words of the prayer
2528 6,2 | overcomes the flesh and penetrates the heavenly with its eye.
2529 1,1 | Athos.~Located on a small peninsula jutting out into the Aegean
2530 5 | has existed on one of the peninsulas of Greece since the 10th
2531 10,1 | Books (in imitation of the Pentateuch — the first five books of
2532 4,7 | spiritual renewal to all peoples, would Himself be so persecuted
2533 7 | deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have
2534 3,4 | organ through which man perceives the spiritual world on high
2535 6,9 | different ways. The depth of perception of this joy by man's soul
2536 3,4 | followed by the Lord's Prayer, perfectly expressing the Eucharistic
2537 6,7 | Living faith in Christ perfects the Christian, makes him
2538 9,7 | is immersed in sleep, the perfumes of prayer will breathe in
2539 10,1 | against Israel in her time of peril (vs. 1-14); an announcement
2540 6,2 | Just as in life the body periodically hungers for food and thirsts
2541 6,8 | Cor. 15:20-23). For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable,
2542 4,1 | chosen Jewish people were perishing in ignorance and error.
2543 1,0 | and St. Stephen, Bishop of Perm († 1396 — commemorated April
2544 1,5 | the deciding factor in the permanence of the Schism had been the
2545 10,1 | Israelite Monarchy and its perpetuity in the dynasty of David,
2546 4,0 | he heard him he was much perplexed; and yet he heard him gladly.~
2547 8,4 | in to the threats of the persecutors, apostasized and fell away
2548 3,6 | Lord and strengthened to persevere in our Lenten struggles.~ ~
2549 8,1 | the regeneration of man's personality begins with the Sacrament
2550 1,4 | hypostasis), Who has united personally (hypostatically) in Himself
2551 10,2 | the concept of wisdom is personified (and this will ultimately
2552 8,1 | turns to the west, which personifies the region where in the
2553 10,1 | admonition and warning, two poems personifying Wisdom (1:20-33; 8:1-36),
2554 1,2 | and began again to try and persuade them to become Catholics.
2555 6,0 | nor adulterers, nor sexual perverts, nor thieves...will inherit
2556 10,1 | Prophet, Joel, the son of Pethuel, who lived in Judah during
2557 4,7 | prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher;
2558 7,1 | Savior was placed in the Pharos Church of the Most-Holy
2559 10,3 | and state of mind to the Philippian congregation, thanking them
2560 10,1 | Eli and Samuel, and the Philistine oppression (I Sam. 1-7);
2561 1,0 | Paisius Velichkovsky and his Philokalia, reached Russia, through
2562 10,2 | the reign of Ptolemy IV Philopater (221-203 B.C.) and the persecution
2563 3,7 | or Cantor. St. Justin the Philosopher, writing in 150 A.D., calls
2564 10,3 | as connections with Greek philosophic speculation and oriental
2565 10,2 | Judaism in terms of Greek philosophy. It is a lecture on religious
2566 1,1 | Grigoriou, Stavronikita, and Philotheou, and two Monks have shone
2567 1,8 | a place of honor in the Phllokalia, a major monastic spiritual
2568 11,2 | ones than those he lost.~Phoenix: This is a mythical bird
2569 1,5 | another breach, the so-called Photian Schism, in the 9th Century,
2570 1,6 | Westerner, he succeeded St. Photinus as Bishop of Lyons. His
2571 3,7 | two-thirds of the Bible is phrased in such a way that it is
2572 10,3 | shares many of the same phrases and expressions as that
2573 3,3 | Holy Unmercenaries and Physicians, 8) the Ancestors of God,
2574 8,5 | Jesus who are at Philip pi, with the bishops and deacons (
2575 3,3 | pierced in remembrance of the piercing of the Savior's side. At
2576 4,7 | turtledoves, or two young pigeons” (Luke 2:24). The original
2577 7,2 | reached Russia through pious pilgrims. It became especially venerated
2578 1,1 | and James were seen to be pillars of the Church in Jerusalem (
2579 8,4 | drag me into the bottomless pit of Hell will fill my soul
2580 6,7 | feeling saves a man from many pitfalls on the path to salvation.
2581 8,4 | again falling into the same pits, driving the soul to utter
2582 1,4 | consecration as Bishop Stephen of Pittsburg, with the task of aiding
2583 4,0 | Thomas wept bitterly. Taking pity on him, the Apostles decided
2584 10,1 | 350 B.C. He views a locust plague which ravished the country
2585 10,1 | leader of the people, the Ten Plagues, etc., and the march to
2586 10,1 | Israel is encamped in the Plains of Moab, preparing for an
2587 11,1 | three-pointed cross made of two planks knocked together in the
2588 1,3 | beautified and enlarged, and plans were laid for the construction
2589 7 | is within us, or by the plant, the flower and the scent
2590 4,2 | Christ our Savior, then “planted on earth the life-creating
2591 2,6 | on Holy Friday, when the Plashchanitsa (Epitaphion) is borne out
2592 1,4 | re-confirmation of Metropolitan Platen's election of 1922, and
2593 4,8 | the Most-Holy Theotokos plays in the redemption of the
2594 5 | Saint Seraphim of Sarov pleaded for a long time before he
2595 4,5 | the All-Holy Theotokos, pleading for mercy and help against
2596 10,1 | new ways of Canaan, and pleads for loyalty to and love
2597 4,5 | represents the sweet and pleasant moments in life; garlic
2598 6,0 | in everything, for this pleases the Lord (Col. 3:20). Further,
2599 5,1 | monastic life and the Novice pledges himself to keep his vows,
2600 8,3 | joint with which it is sup plied...makes bodily growth and
2601 9,8 | for the victims' woeful plight are often to be found in
2602 9,6 | sugar, sometimes mixed with plums, raisins and other sweets)
2603 6,0 | and hurtful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction (
2604 8,4 | separates us from God. Sin plunges the soul into darkness and
2605 10,1 | and 3) (Ch. 3) a lengthy poem obviously intended for liturgical
2606 10 | taking many forms: prose and poetry, myth and legend, folk tale
2607 6,0 | restless evil, full of deadly poison, with it we bless the Lord
2608 1,1 | Yugoslavia with its more liberal policies.~ ~Cyprus.~This ancient
2609 7,2 | 1612, freed Moscow from the Polish invaders. Thus a Feast in
2610 3,2 | called, from the Greek words poll (much) and elea (oil or
2611 1,0 | greeting to a Bishop, Eis polla eti, Despota, in recognition
2612 1,2 | to order them to give up polygamy. He had also persuaded the
2613 6,0 | In a world dominated by polytheism (“many gods”), the Israelites
2614 4,4 | Mary kept all these things, pondering them in her heart. And the
2615 3,8 | services commonly used.~ ~Pontifical Service Book. (Greek — Archieratikon;
2616 9,8 | use of the Psalter.~The popularity and widespread use of the
2617 7,1 | of the Dormition, and is popularly called the Third Feast-of-the-Savior
2618 5 | desert than in the more populated central community.~Eventually
2619 2,2 | The Bell-Tower~14. The Porches~ ~
2620 6,0 | immoral stories, filthy talk, pornographic books, magazines, movies,
2621 7,1 | the Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus (912-59) requested that
2622 7,2 | after the Monastery, and Portaitissa (or Gate-Keeper), after
2623 4,7 | harsh way of the Cross, portent with profound significance,
2624 7,2 | Mother of God blessed her portrait, saying, “My blessing will
2625 10,3 | sees in Chapter 12:1-6 a portrayal of the Most-holy Theotokos.
2626 11,1 | wings.~The four images portrayed above, find their first
2627 10,1 | King Ahasuerus. The story portrays the foiling of a plot by
2628 4,8 | his own son. She simply poses a respectful question. And
2629 10,2 | although why so is not positively known. Sometimes these books
2630 4,0 | on August 6. This Feast possesses two distinct aspects inseparably
2631 6,2 | are revealed to the soul possessing it wholly, acting from faith
2632 6,0 | obviously respect another's possessions; but we must also guard
2633 8,2 | the baptized person the possessor of the Spirit — bearing
2634 10,2 | earlier materials — even those possibly written by King Solomon.
2635 1,4 | of World War II and its post-war period, dying in 1950, having
2636 6,4 | Christ our God — dwelt.~ ~Pot.~[See Urn]~ ~Stem of Jesse.~
2637 1,1 | considered blood money, a potter's field was bought to bury
2638 8,1 | not sprinkling (or even pouring). Immersion in water signifies
2639 6,6 | and teaches us, and which pours forth from her One, Eternal
2640 10,2 | deeds, he became blind and poverty-stricken (Ch. 1-2). At the same time,
2641 7,2 | was sent by Prince Dimitry Pozhharsky from Kazan to Moscow.~Knowing
2642 1,1 | Metropolitan who lives in Prague.~ ~Sinai.~The ancient Church
2643 3,7 | of Psalms — the essential prayer-book of the Church — in essence,
2644 3,7 | The word antiphon in our prayer-books describes how the people
2645 7,2 | Most-Holy Theotokos sitting prayerfully, with uplifted arms. On
2646 6,2 | heart. Remaining in constant prayerfulness before God creates a living
2647 4,1 | Nativity of the Mother of God pre-announced the approaching time when
2648 4,3 | the Most-Holy Theotokos, pre-announcing the Incarnation of God on
2649 4,1 | the Most-Blessed Virgin, pre-arranged from the ages by Divine
2650 10,3 | elaborate argument showing the pre-eminence of Christianity over Judaism.
2651 8,6 | rank of Metropolitan is pre-eminent.~ ~Archimandrite.~Originally
2652 1,4 | teaching concerning the pre-existence of the soul, among other
2653 2,5 | all the church bells. In Pre-Revolutionary Moscow, for example, travelers
2654 1,7 | was one of the greatest preachers of his time (late 4th Century)
2655 10,1 | of Divine Love, since he preaches much of God's love for His
2656 1,1 | Patriarchate in Turkey is precarious, persecution still exists
2657 10,1 | the people, existing only precariously, are constantly murmuring.
2658 3,2 | been opened. The Deacon preceeds the Priest (who is an Icon
2659 4,6 | of the Orthodox Church, predating even the Nativity of Christ
2660 1,4 | missionary policy of his predecessors. He consecrated Bishop Aftimos
2661 4,1 | hidden His glory and His predestined Messianic mission from them,
2662 10 | Christ, the Prophet Jeremiah predicted that the covenant relation
2663 10,1 | interpreting current history and predicting the ultimate triumph of
2664 5 | places.~Considering the predominance of coenobitic monasticism,
2665 Pref | Preface.~Many are prone to saying
2666 7 | transmitted to the Church, we prefer grace and truth, receiving
2667 4,6 | prepared outside the church (preferably a river or lake).~The Feast
2668 4,4 | from on high, is a divine prefiguration of the general resurrection
2669 7 | ancient images and shadows as prefigurations and symbols of truth transmitted
2670 4,7 | humiliation of the flesh, prefiguring the bloody consecration
2671 3,9 | pole. Now only the brief preliminary stanza remains and is sung
2672 5 | own responsibilities and preoccupations, makes it difficult to discern
2673 1,4 | the Archangel. Although preoccupied with the affairs of his
2674 6,6 | God on earth, for she was preordained by Christ to serve as a
2675 10,4 | staff, they comfort me.~Thou preparest a table before me in the
2676 1,5 | infallibility as his sole prerogative, whereas the Greeks insisted
2677 8,2 | blessed the Bishops and Presbyter whom they consecrated to
2678 4,7 | The original Old Testament prescription that the firstborn must
2679 1,4 | a full Diocese, with its presiding Bishop wholly responsible
2680 6,0 | given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running
2681 3,3 | dealing with man's most pressing needs — peace, seasonable
2682 2,4 | the Holy Table (Russian — Prestol), which represents the Throne
2683 8,4 | in the course of time, prevailed and a penitential discipline —
2684 8,8 | God's will and not man's prevails in all instances. Sometimes
2685 11,1 | Christ, the T-Cross became prevalent.~By the 5th Century, however,
2686 6,6 | visible organization does not prevent them from being spiritually
2687 4,6 | by him. John would have prevented Him, saying, “I need to
2688 6,2 | which face us. True humility prevents us from passing judgment,
2689 11,1 | absolved, hell deprived of its prey, resurrection given and
2690 4,0 | Alaska: Peter the Aleut and Priest-monk Juvenaly (Sept. 24)~The
2691 8,6 | title of honor given to Priest-monks. In the Russian Church,
2692 1,4 | all but one year of his Priestly life in America — as the
2693 8,6 | or Igumen).~Originally a Priestmonk who was the Superior of
2694 8,6 | honor for distinguished Priestmonks.~ ~Abbot (Hegumen or Igumen).~
2695 1,1 | last Primate, Damian, the primal See of Tirane remains vacant.~ ~
2696 1,5 | 1923, subsequently becoming Prime Minister of that country
2697 10,1 | 1-11 deal primarily with primeval history; Chapters 12-50
2698 3,7 | to a hypothetically more primitive practice. There is room
2699 2,2 | Narthex; Lity — Greek; Pritvor — Russian), in ancient times
2700 6,2 | through numerous tribulations, privations, renunciation of all worldly
2701 9,7 | of Jesus is every bit the privilege of all Christians. As the
2702 5,1 | Tonsure in his three-year probation.]~The candidate stands unclothed
2703 5,2 | the same as that worn by Probationers. A leather belt, made of
2704 10,1 | men,” but rather aims to probe the depths of faith in spite
2705 2,4 | and sometimes a large Processional Cross. Behind this, at the
2706 7,2 | found on the Feast of St. Procopius the Martyr, July 8, the
2707 1,0 | government functionary, the Chief Procurator, representing the Tsar,
2708 7,1 | huge rock and attempted to produce a painting of the image
2709 1,3 | himself and the orphans was produced from his own experimental
2710 6,0 | My name falsely, and so profane the name of your God (Lev.
2711 7 | words, the Icon contains and professes the same truth as the Gospels
2712 6,0 | magazines, movies, T.V. programs, etc., as well as evil companions.
2713 1,5 | Church was deposed and the progress of this Church was halted
2714 7 | they not idols or the like, prohibited by the Old Testament?~Some
2715 7 | despite the Old Testament prohibition against them and a certain
2716 8,3 | During the Liturgy we are projected in time to that place where
2717 1,3 | first American-born Priest, Prokopy Lavrov, was ordained in
2718 7,2 | were made and have received prominence in Russia. Many of them
2719 10,3 | 8:3; 10:38-42); and d) promising that the Gentile (of whom
2720 10,1 | people's sense of sin, but prompts them to turn to Him in sacrificial
2721 10,1 | governing life and worship were promulgated (Ten Commandments, Ark of
2722 Pref | Preface.~Many are prone to saying there is no Orthodox
2723 9,1 | words of the prayer and to pronounce them without becoming distracted
2724 8 | the Sacraments, the Priest pronounces the Christian name of each
2725 7 | which have grace-bestowing properties and Divine Power.~As St.
2726 10,1 | Heaven for vengeance. Despite prophesying the Fall of Jerusalem, he
2727 4,7 | Simeon: And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel,
2728 1,4 | America, a title that had been proposed by the late Patriarch Tikhon
2729 10 | Israel, taking many forms: prose and poetry, myth and legend,
2730 4,2 | celebrated, accompanied by prostitution. In Bethlehem, in the place
2731 3,0 | Poklon).~Here the worshipper prostrates the whole body, throwing
2732 6,1 | Tradition is not only a protective, conservative principle;
2733 7,2 | to turn to the Heavenly Protectors — the Most-Holy Theotokos
2734 7,2 | Mother of God, the great Protectress of Christians. At this time
2735 2,5 | of Oblation (offering or Prothesis) where the offerings are
2736 10,2 | distinguish the first (or proto) canonical books from those
2737 8,6 | attached to a Bishop.~ ~Protodeacon.~This is a title of honor
2738 8,6 | Archimandrite.~ ~Archpriest, Protopresbyter.~These are titles of honor
2739 6,5 | the coming Messiah in the prototypes: No prophecy ever came by
2740 9,8 | most of the Psalms is the providential paths of God and in the
2741 1,4 | Bishops of the Metropolia. Providentially this action was set into
2742 1,4 | centered in the Western provinces of Russia, was directed
2743 1,4 | remained for eleven years, proving to be its most brilliant
2744 9,5 | St. Peter says, the Devil prowls around like a roaring lion,
2745 3,2 | 22) and has consisted of Psalm-singing and readings, largely from
2746 9,8 | and rules for action.” The Psalteris sometimes called, rightfully
2747 4,6 | Celestial Hierarchies by Pseudo-Dionysius, who wrote in the 6th Century.]
2748 9,8 | between Good and Evil and the psychology of sin and virtue with unusual
2749 10,2 | suffered under the reign of Ptolemy IV Philopater (221-203 B.C.)
2750 1,4 | bilingual (English-Russian) publication for the Diocese was initiated.~
2751 8,4 | community affair and took place publicly before the whole local Christian
2752 1,4 | as well as desiring to publish his translations. While
2753 1,4 | the Church in America was published in 1906. And in 1907 (Feb.
2754 7,2 | Constantinople, as a gift to Pulcheria, her sister-in-law, who
2755 2,2 | delivery of sermons — the Pulpit.~Sometimes placed in the
2756 10,1 | coming of God to judge, to punish and to reward. This prophecy
2757 6,2 | was a cleric whom he had punished for some misdeed and who
2758 10,1 | concerned with rewards and punishments, the recompense for good
2759 1,4 | to be its most brilliant pupil during this time. Besides
2760 9,3 | Prayers at night are often purer because “the mind is more
2761 9,2 | essence of which consists of purging all vengeful thoughts from
2762 10,1 | and urged the priests to purify the cultic worship. The
2763 2,7 | except that they are of purple color. [If the Priest be
2764 10,2 | written by someone else) and purports to be a letter from Jeremiah
2765 3,5 | The Full Moon used for the purposes of calculating the date
2766 9,1 | untiring and relentless, pursuing its purpose with the firm
2767 4,1 | Church, branches from the pussy willow are used instead
2768 3,7 | and held by the faithful (pussy-willow branches in the Russian
2769 1,4 | Auxiliary, Bishop Innocent (Pustynsky) was appointed Bishop of
2770 6,7 | holy life, in which he puts on the new nature, created
2771 10,3 | urging endurance as the main quality of a preacher of the Gospel.
2772 6,2 | that there should be no quarrel on the way and that the
2773 8,4 | excessive shouting, swearing, quarreling and cursing;~I weep for
2774 10,3 | advised to avoid hatred and quarrels and to manifest the meekness,
2775 6,2 | internal and external filth and quench the flame of all irritability
2776 5,2 | are united in a common quest for the Angelic State.~ ~
2777 9,7 | Gate of the Temple, he was questioned by the High Priest: By what
2778 10,1 | earthly existence. This questioning will point men to the everlasting
2779 4,4 | the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And
2780 10,1 | Orthodox Church, and is quoted and used above all other
2781 8,7 | divorce and remarriage, quoting as her authority the words
2782 11,1 | victor or conqueror.~I.N.R.I.: These are the initial
2783 10,2 | of ancient Israel and the rabbinical schools of the Pharisees
2784 4,4 | said to Him in Hebrew, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher).
2785 4,4 | wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children;
2786 9,6 | name, Day of Rejoicing (Radonitsa).~ ~Trinity Saturday.~On
2787 6,2 | and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust (
2788 9,6 | sometimes mixed with plums, raisins and other sweets) is often
2789 4,4 | Jeremiah: “A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation,
2790 8,4 | jealousy, vengeance and rancor;~I weep over my indulgences
2791 4,1 | miracle, cried in joyous rapture: Hosanna to the Son of David!
2792 5 | hermit was granted a food ration from the main monastery,
2793 10,1 | views a locust plague which ravished the country as God's punishment
2794 8,4 | who had lapsed should be re-baptized — that is, their sins should
2795 1,4 | measure of peace with the re-confirmation of Metropolitan Platen's
2796 5,1 | Monastic Tonsure the mystical re-enactment of the return of the Prodigal
2797 2,5 | church. (When the procession re-enters the church, the Peal follows.)
2798 1,0 | Monarchy, the Patriarchate was re-established and Tikhon, Metropolitan
2799 1,5 | Bucharest and the other re-establishing an autonomous Diocese, for
2800 2,6 | the faithful hold candles, re-living our Lord's sufferings and
2801 4,5 | people of Constantinople reacted to the threat by turning
2802 8,3 | Letter to Cacaelius].~This is reaffirmed in the Liturgy of St. Basil
2803 1,4 | five years short of the realization of his dream.~Metropolitan
2804 9,8 | the unfortunate. He well realizes that the reasons for the
2805 10,3 | air. they neither sow nor reap nor gather into Barns, and
2806 10,3 | thought like a child; I reasoned like a child; when I became
2807 9,7 | great source of joy and reassurance.~ ~
2808 8,1 | Holy Spirit and had to be rebaptized later (Acts 19:35).~The
2809 10,3 | Corinth had repented of its rebelliousness against Paul (7:13-16).
2810 10,1 | with Haggai the zeal for a rebuilt Temple, a purified community,
2811 6,2 | life of the believer as a rebuke to themselves.~History remembers
2812 10,3 | Elder (John) (vs. 10). John rebukes Diotrephes, while encouraging
2813 6,2 | anger in others, hurting or rebuking them, and it enables us
2814 8,3 | Offerer and the Offered, the Receiver and the Received, O Christ
2815 8,1 | John prepared a man for the reception of the Messiah and His Kingdom (
2816 2,5 | usually accompanied by twelve recitations of Psalm 51 — for twelve
2817 1,0 | Possessors were victorious, but recognizing the sanctity of both leaders,
2818 4,2 | the Savior and nevermore recollect the place where He lived,
2819 Pref | which we must interpret and reconstruct meaning.~In fact, this is
2820 Pref | tradition is not an abstract reconstruction, but those truths, values
2821 1,4 | of Autocephaly. Then it reconvened as the First Council of
2822 10,3 | John 1:14,18). St. John records real events, but goes beyond
2823 3,3 | Mighty! Holy Immortal!” He recounted what he had heard to all
2824 8,8 | other cases he does not recover, but the Sacrament, nonetheless,
2825 8,8 | sick person is healed and recovers after receiving the Sacrament,
2826 8,8 | automatically followed by recovery of health, for God's will
2827 9,7 | repetitious work. Even in such recreational activities as hiking, jogging,
2828 3,3 | should pray to Him with redoubled fervor for the things necessary
2829 5 | meals (or trapeza) in the Refectory (often called the Trapeza
2830 6,2 | Image of God is most truly reflected. Our spirit trembles before
2831 9,8 | Psalms are filled with deep reflections about God's Law and spiritual
2832 6,1 | the whole problem of the reform of the Russian liturgical
2833 10,2 | Canon, whereas, since the Reformation, most Protestants have rejected
2834 10,3 | to the Church (2:1), he refrained from making a second trip,
2835 3,2 | would be strengthened and refreshed. After the Priest had pronounced
2836 6,2 | idle curiosity and never refuses his help to those who are
2837 1,4 | united in one Person, Christ, refusing to call the Virgin Mary,
2838 8,1 | all men seeking salvation, regardless of sex, nationality, or
2839 11,1 | itself wherewith they are regenerated, or on the oil with which
2840 1,1 | conduct services, as the regime has officially declared
2841 1,2 | with the children, the men regretted what they had done, gave
2842 5 | of a Monk is specifically regulated to the acquisition of these
2843 10,3 | offers suggestions for the regulation of worship (2:1-15), sets
2844 1,0 | his celebrated Spiritual Regulations, and the Russian Church
2845 10,1 | to the people in which he rehearses the mighty acts of the Lord,
2846 3,0 | movements are utilized to reinforce this sense of reverential
2847 Pref | is traditional, for many, reinforcing the familiar — but equally
2848 1,4 | This Council met to further reinterpret the decrees of Chalcedon,
2849 9,5 | are beyond our strength to reject. If we encounter on our
2850 10,3 | covetous (vs. 11,16), and rejecting authority (vs. 8,11). They
2851 10,3 | Macedonia (2:12-13), where Titus rejoined him, bringing the good news
2852 10 | predicted that the covenant relation of God with His people,
2853 11,2 | yet from it new life is released.~Olive Branch: The olive
2854 9,1 | it must be untiring and relentless, pursuing its purpose with
2855 10,1 | well as her neighbors, for reliance on military might, for grave
2856 2,4 | Antimension is an incorruptible relic of a Saint, making real
2857 10,3 | against Paul (7:13-16). In relief and gratitude, Paul wrote
2858 9,8 | Ps. 16:8). By spiritually reliving the events of the Bible
2859 10 | and the Writings (the remainder of the Old Testament books).
2860 6,1 | 257, one of the Bishops remarked, “The Lord said, I am Truth.
2861 8,5 | whose wife dies may not remarry. Also, one who has been
2862 8,3 | breaking one bread, this remedy for immortality.” Moreover,
2863 6,2 | rebuke to themselves.~History remembers many who have persecuted
2864 3,2 | Scripture Readings and here is a remnant of the ancient practice
2865 1,1 | Crucifixion of Jesus, in deep remorse, Judas cast the pieces of
2866 8,2 | white baptismal garments removed. [In ancient times this
2867 1,3 | Elder Nazarius, Abbot and Renewer of the spiritual life of
2868 8,1 | powers of darkness abide, and renounces Satan and all his works,
2869 10,1 | religious and political reorganization of Judah after the Return
2870 6,2 | 9). St. Paul teaches us: Repay no one evil for evil, but
2871 6,7 | attain a single virtue. A repentant feeling saves a man from
2872 6,7 | Baptism; for he who truly repents and promises to turn away
2873 8,3 | not a new sacrifice, nor a repetition of the Sacrifice of the
2874 9,7 | idle moments or moments of repetitious work. Even in such recreational
2875 1,0 | appointed mission and then reported to Vladimir:~ ~When we journeyed
2876 4,9 | according to contemporary reports [Conversation with Motovilov].~
2877 11,1 | order to become a temple, a repository of the Spirit of God, the
2878 6,0 | use of Icons, pictures or representations, whether of wood, stone
2879 2,4 | ordain Priests as their representatives to the growing number of
2880 10,3 | teaching in this letter and reprimanded the idlers, If any one will
2881 8,4 | in criticizing others and reproaching them; how many hours have
2882 7 | we can portray Him and reproduce for contemplation Him Who
2883 10,2 | Israelite worship. It basically reproduces 2 Chronicles 35-36, all
2884 6,0 | man or birds or animals or reptiles (Rom. 1:21-23). Even after
2885 6,0 | tongue — the ruining of one's reputation, character or standing;
2886 7,1 | of God and wrote a letter requesting Him to come and heal him.
2887 9 | labor. All of life's deeds require toil and patience, but nowhere
2888 8,7 | calling of monasticism), requiring a gift or charism from the
2889 10,1 | Loyalty to God is the first requisite for national success and
2890 4,1 | and be their ruler and rescue them from the Roman yoke.~
2891 5,1 | it is obvious that the resemblance of the Monastic Tonsure
2892 11,1 | is so-called because it resembles the Greek letter of that
2893 10,3 | it is not irritable or resentful:, it does not rejoice at
2894 1,2 | taken without offering any resistance, asking only that those
2895 1,0 | of the Old Believers, who resisted the changes (many of which
2896 8,4 | sinful nature and to cease resisting the powerful forces of sin.
2897 1,4 | passed several important resolutions to give the Serbian and
2898 9,1 | its purpose with the firm resolve of the widow in Our Lord'
2899 9,5 | seeks forgiveness should resort to the healing power of
2900 1,1 | having studied under the respected Rabbi Gamaliel at Jerusalem (
2901 6,3 | Man; for God, Who always respects human freedom, did not become
2902 3,7 | Scriptural Odes, first as simple responses and refrains, later developing
2903 5 | monastery, with its own responsibilities and preoccupations, makes
2904 3,3 | Greek — sounding in answer — responsive singing of two Choirs standing
2905 3,2 | that He will grant us a restful sleep during the coming
2906 6,0 | the tongue is a fire...a restless evil, full of deadly poison,
2907 5,2 | of sleeves signifying the restraining of worldly pursuits. Upon
2908 5,1 | will endure willingly the restraints and hardships of the monastic
2909 1,0 | monasticism was severely restricted and later in the Century
2910 3,8 | Russian). This book normally rests on the Holy Table, and is
2911 10,1 | by Esther and Mordecai, resulting in the hanging of Haman
2912 10,1 | Covenant. If Israel is to resume her God-given mission, she
2913 1,4 | They are the ones that will resurrect this written history from
2914 3,2 | Reading, on Sundays the Resurrectional Hymn, “Having beheld the
2915 3,4 | Russian Church. The Greeks retain only the last phrase, “You
2916 3,4 | mentioned by name. This is retained, but in expanded form, by
2917 1,4 | health and his request to retire, in 1868, Innocent was elevated
2918 1,2 | only the Monk Herman, now retired to Spruce Island, was left
2919 3,2 | Service of Prayer before retiring to bed and thus it is sung
2920 3,2 | with God's love and, by retracing the long way already trodden,
2921 9,6 | loosed from the body he returns to Him, and by the Trinity
2922 6,8 | bodies of the dead shall reunite with their souls, come to
2923 10,2 | this book consists of seven revelations, in which the seer is instructed
2924 1,3 | flock. They continued to revere his memory, but the outside
2925 6,3 | Ever-Virgin Mary, who is reverenced by the Orthodox as being “
2926 5,1 | all these questions, “Yes, Reverend Father, with the help of
2927 3,4 | concentration, to be attentive and reverent towards the Sacrament about
2928 2,6 | been used. The faithful reverently bow their heads when blessed
2929 6,2 | Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, and
2930 6,2 | feat of bearing suffering, revilement and persecution for Christ'
2931 8,4 | all my foul, cunning and reviling thoughts;~I weep over my
2932 3,8 | Jerusalem (tea.638). A further revision was made by St. John of
2933 1,0 | Certain monasteries were revitalized, including the famous center
2934 1,0 | commemorated August 13), a revitalizer of pastoral life, and St.
2935 1,3 | pair. They succeeded in revitalizing the Mission to such a degree
2936 1,1 | However, there appears to be a revival of monastic life there,
2937 6,7 | power that cleanses and revives nature, a power vitally
2938 1,5 | emerging again with the Balkan Revolutions of the 19th Century and
2939 9,3 | heavenly guide which does not revolve around the earth, but which
2940 11,1 | Christ. Iesus Nazaremus Rex Indaeorum: Jesus of Nazareth,
2941 1,5 | designated Bishop Alexander of Rhodostolos to carry on the work of
2942 3,9 | it were sung in the same rhythm, and thus were linked to
2943 9,8 | particularly profound and rhythmically expressive. Every word is
2944 3,8 | of faith: Receive all the riches of Coving-fondness. Let
2945 2,7 | head, the Bishop wears a richly embroidered headgear, called
2946 2,4 | mystically present. It is usually richly-adorned and as it is the Book of
2947 1,2 | Finally, in order to be rid of him, the savages hacked
2948 4,1 | young colt had not been ridden or borne a yoke before (
2949 10,1 | victorious is he, humble and riding on an ass, on a colt, the
2950 1,2 | the source of a temporary rift between Paul and Barnabas (
2951 3,7 | however, insists neither on a rigid formalism nor a return to
2952 3,6 | one of its features is its rigorous fasting (cf. the section
2953 2,5 | Announcement then continues to ring up to the time of the vesting
2954 6,3 | hope, a fruit of faith, ripened in Tradition. Let us therefore
2955 5 | lives alone runs the serious risk of falling into a special
2956 1,7 | Arian controversies, he risked his life defending the Orthodox
2957 10,1 | 27).~Through the various rituals and laws, there breathes
2958 1,3 | Emperor Constantine defeated a rival army and ultimately became
2959 7,2 | set them afloat on swift rivers or seas, entrusting their
2960 9,5 | Devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking some one to
2961 7,2 | the cheek terrified the robber. He turned to God and to
2962 6,0 | another's happiness, or robbing him of a friendship. This
2963 8,2 | encompassed by Him, being robed henceforth as if in special
2964 8,6 | Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), Poland, Czechoslovakia
2965 2,1 | with rounded or pointed roofs), called crests or summits.
2966 5 | struggle to cast out the very root of man's sinfulness: pride
2967 3,7 | return to the traditional roots of the canonical chant systems.
2968 1,9 | The Prince of Moravia, Rostislav, desired that his people
2969 7,2 | According to St. Dimitry of Rostov, this Icon was written at
2970 10,1 | conquest of Canaan which is roughly parallel to that in the
2971 1,4 | replaced by Archbishop Platon (Rozhdestvensky), who continued the missionary
2972 7,1 | towel. He wiped His face, rubbing with the towel, and on it
2973 4,6 | angels (the subject of Andrei Rublev's famous icon of the Holy
2974 3,8 | book contains the rules and rubrics governing every aspect of
2975 10,3 | boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on
2976 6,0 | desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction (1 Tim.
2977 6,0 | actions of his tongue — the ruining of one's reputation, character
2978 6,2 | Prophet Jeremiah over the ruins of Jerusalem. And such were
2979 10,3 | Acts 28:30)), Onesimus, a runaway slave, came under his influence
2980 6,0 | pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your
2981 3,1 | loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, “My God, My God,
2982 3,4 | Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord of Sabaoth...,” taken partly from the
2983 10,3 | the synagogue for three Sabbaths, proclaiming Jesus as the
2984 6,6 | 6:6; 14:23; 20:28), and sacredly holds the Apostolic Tradition (
2985 6,2 | God and to others.~Only by sacrificing ourselves will we find ourselves
2986 4,1 | however, the Savior grew sad, and since He loved His
2987 4,2 | ascended to Heaven not to sadden us with His departure, but
2988 10,2 | schools of the Pharisees and Sadducees. It basically consists of
2989 6,2 | loves and affections.” This sadness, however, should not be
2990 7,2 | took with them the Icon for safekeeping. The day before the Battle
2991 5 | his ascetic labors, in his saintly manner of life and in this
2992 1,2 | was martyred on Cyprus at Salamis. He commemorated together
2993 1,3 | abandoned or forgotten with the sale of Alaska to America which
2994 10,5 | 3:16~ ~Sayings of Jesus:~Salt of the earth ..............................
2995 1,4 | American Church from Sitka to San Francisco, California, in
2996 8,7 | Holy Matrimony has divine sanction comes no less from the words
2997 4,5 | the Wise, a large army of Saracens was preparing to attack
2998 7,2 | the Ugra River (called the Sash of the Mother of God], which
2999 8,4 | power and been gluttonous, satiating myself on delicacies, on
3000 8,4 | filled past the point of satiety, lacked sobriety and been
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