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3001 6,2 | which find their highest satisfaction in the prayers and Sacraments
3002 1,9 | Photius initiated large scale missionary labors in these
3003 7,2 | have depicted Her with a scar and drops of blood on Her
3004 10,1 | 2) — the setting of the scene in the Court of the King;
3005 7 | plant, the flower and the scent of the rose.~Thus, what
3006 5 | famous Egyptian community of Scetis which originated this form.
3007 1,2 | No, you are heretics and schismatics; if you do not agree to
3008 Pref | theology is not solely the scholarly pursuit of a specialized
3009 3,7 | Choirs of sorts began to be schooled in the Imperial Court, although
3010 1,4 | dealing with history and the sciences, and while still a student
3011 6,4 | the Theotokos, who was a scion (or stem) of the line of
3012 4,2 | place of His suffering was scorned by the pagans. When the
3013 3,2 | of Christ, as well as the scourging and mocking of the Lord.
3014 4,2 | His disciples — mockings, scourgings, imprisonment and even death.
3015 2,5 | bands of metal joined by a screw which, when put together,
3016 3,7 | the singing of Psalms and Scriptural Odes, first as simple responses
3017 4,4 | the sepulcher secure by sealing the stone and setting a
3018 2,7 | Christ's robe was without seam, so too, the Bishop (as
3019 3,4 | repentance and spiritual searching — a period of preparation,
3020 4,7 | of all their doubts and searchings entertained the firmest
3021 3,3 | pressing needs — peace, seasonable weather, God's help for
3022 2,2 | churches is the absence of any seating (except perhaps for benches
3023 2,4 | Bishop's Throne), with seats for the Priests on either
3024 3,3 | Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (Mar. 9), Forefeast of the
3025 1,5 | California, by Archimandrite Sebastian Dabovich, dedicated to St.
3026 4,1 | child. In the wilderness, secluded and fasting, Joachim also
3027 10,2 | the Prophet Jeremiah's secretary, to the Exiles in Babylon,
3028 10,3 | distorted by various Protestant sects.~ ~
3029 10,1 | rather than remain in the security of her native land (Ch.
3030 6,2 | heart are not tempted by the seductions of this world. As St. John
3031 8,1 | before the conscience as a seductive principle. That is why it
3032 4,1 | had promised that from the seed of his descendants would
3033 3,1 | alike. It strengthens the seeker after godliness in spiritual
3034 6,0 | talk — by gossip? Even the seemingly idle — harmless — talk can
3035 10,2 | revelations, in which the seer is instructed by the angel,
3036 1,1 | After World War II, with the seizure of power by the Communists,
3037 4,6 | Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Selaphiel, Jegudiel and Barachiel.~ ~
3038 10,2 | Empire and the origin of the Seleucid Empire (Ch. 1:1-10), he
3039 10,2 | III and the Syrian King Seleucus IV to the defeat of Nicanor'
3040 3,6 | encouraged to follow the self-abasement of the Publican rather than
3041 5 | monastic sanctity is always self-accusing, always mourning its sinfulness.
3042 1,5 | the Metropolitan of the self-consecrated Ukrainian Church was deposed
3043 5,1 | of the world and perfect self-consecration to God. Indeed, the first
3044 8,4 | intemperance and lack of self-control how often have I been filled
3045 5 | translated as spiritual self-deception. The Monk takes pride in
3046 9,1 | Cross. Here a great deal of self-exertion and patience is called for,
3047 8,6 | of certain autocephalous (self-heading — i.e., independent) Churches.
3048 8,4 | to excess;~I weep over my self-indulgence, cupidity, love of money
3049 8,4 | pride and my ambition, my self-love and my boastfulness;~I weep
3050 8,7 | marriage involves immeasurable self-sacrifice on both sides.~In the Greek
3051 8,4 | Fasts!~How often, through selfishness, pride or false modesty,
3052 7,2 | voice from the Icon, the selfless soldier, Mercurius, defeated
3053 6,6 | awakens him to deeds of selflessness and sanctity (1 Cor. 3:16-
3054 6,2 | others, we must lose our own selves. Our spirit, renewed in
3055 10 | in Aramaic (a more recent Semitic language).~ ~The New Testament.~
3056 6,2 | evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on
3057 8,8 | Sacrament, during which the senior Priest reads the Absolution
3058 8,4 | my heart with voluptuous sensations, and unnaturally satisfied
3059 6,0 | into a snare, into many senseless and hurtful desires that
3060 8,4 | my words, ignorantly and senselessly, and uttered a numberless
3061 11,1 | barrier, invisible to the sensual eye, that separates us from
3062 10,1 | ideas of the Prophet are sentiments of sorrow, amendment and
3063 5,2 | Nonetheless, although sequestered in separate monasteries,
3064 7,2 | Dionysius-Glushetsk, Kursk, Seraphimo-Ponetaevskaya, and others.~ ~Smolensk (
3065 10,3 | permeated with Paul's joy and serene happiness in Christ, even
3066 3,3 | they do need to be taken seriously, are not to be interpreted
3067 11,1 | been bitten by poisonous serpents, upon looking at this brass
3068 1,3 | Monk Herman. He was born in Serpukhov in the Moscow Diocese about
3069 11,2 | Resurrection and life immortal.~Seven-Fold Flame: This is a symbol
3070 10,3 | judgments of the coming seven-year period of tribulation on
3071 4,0 | Timothy, as well as the Seventy Apostles arrived at the
3072 6,0 | idolaters, nor adulterers, nor sexual perverts, nor thieves...
3073 7 | love the ancient images and shadows as prefigurations and symbols
3074 4,0 | sleep, she would rise and shake off death like sleep from
3075 10,1 | injustices, foul immorality and shallow, meaningless piety. The
3076 8,4 | even boldly, insolently and shamelessly have I slandered others
3077 10,1 | 11), Ehud (Ch. 3:12-30), Shamgar (Ch. 3:31), Deborah (Ch.
3078 11,2 | Is. 11:2-3; Rev. 5:12).~Shamrock: This was supposedly used
3079 10,3 | the Colossians, since it shares many of the same phrases
3080 8,8 | soul and there can be no sharp distinction between bodily
3081 11,1 | Cross whose lower arm is sharpened. This is said to have been
3082 11,2 | Resurrection. When the peacock sheds his feathers, he grows more
3083 2,7 | ancient times, was made of sheepskin. This hangs down in front
3084 4,7 | silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary... (Num.
3085 10,3 | Commandment~(Matt. 22:37-40)~You shell love the Lord your God with
3086 6,2 | sits upon the throne will shelter them with His presence (
3087 1,3 | placing the Cross on the shields of his army, the Emperor
3088 1,5 | the focus of Orthodoxy shifted to the North, to the domains
3089 1,9 | conversion of the Slavs and the shifting of the focus of the Church
3090 3,1 | the Feast of Feasts, it shifts from year to year as Pascha
3091 11,1 | place where St. Paul was shipwrecked — Acts 27:14-44), since
3092 6,0 | unthinkingly or even for shock effect. We moderns have
3093 10,3 | a6outyour body, what you shod put on. Is not life more
3094 9,7 | housework, or at the factory, shop or office, there are many
3095 1,3 | Rome to Byzantium, on the shores of the Bosporus, where he
3096 5,1 | Baptism, and the hair is shorn in the tonsure, just as
3097 3,2 | Tuesdays of Great Lent.~In the shortened version of the Canons, as
3098 10,1 | neighbors. This book is the shortest book of the Old Testament
3099 7,2 | carried out, the invaders shot off at the Cross-Procession
3100 2,7 | called the Omophorion (shoulder-covering), which, in ancient times,
3101 10,1 | greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
3102 8,4 | anger, irritation, excessive shouting, swearing, quarreling and
3103 4,0 | which she would go with shouts of joy and spiritual happiness —
3104 10,1 | the paganism of the local shrines may be eliminated.~This
3105 1,5 | War I, the Metropolitan of Sibiu in Transylvania began to
3106 2,4 | Chrismation, and also a Sick-Call Kit (the Ciborium) within
3107 6,2 | Sometimes it is through sickness, sorrow and misfortunes.
3108 8,8 | between bodily and spiritual sicknesses. Of course, the Church does
3109 8,4 | all tears flow for it, and sighing come forth without ceasing
3110 6,2 | sorrow can be expressed in sighs, constriction of the heart,
3111 2,5 | moments. It is also used to signal the arrival of the Archpastor
3112 3,3 | body of the Church) and signaled the beginning of the Liturgy.
3113 2,1 | represent, from the top, the signboard on which was written, in
3114 6,1 | Mount was preceded by two significant meetings, one with His secret
3115 10,1 | book of Jeremiah differs significantly in many places from that
3116 10,3 | driven out of Philippi, Paul, Silas and Timothy came to Thessalonica,
3117 1,1 | this Century - the Elder Silouan († 1938) of St. Panteleimon'
3118 10,3 | with which it has many similarities). The purpose was to correct
3119 1,1 | particularly at the monasteries of Simonopetra, Dionysiou, Grigoriou, Stavronikita,
3120 1,3 | Herman wore the oldest and simplest clothes under his cassock
3121 8,4 | that interferes with the sincerity of our repentance before
3122 1,8 | Council of Florence, and single-handedly defended the Orthodox faith
3123 8,3 | deeds are wrecked by your single-hearted faith” [To the Ephesians].~
3124 3,7 | remains basically monophonic (single-line unison singing). But part-singing
3125 1,4 | addition, three great Sees were singled out — Rome, Alexandria and
3126 1,2 | First they tortured one singly while the other one was
3127 3,2 | reigns in the soul; the world sinks into darkness but the wondrous
3128 6,2 | accomplished.”~We are constantly sinning, both when we are active
3129 7,2 | a gift to Pulcheria, her sister-in-law, who placed the Icon in
3130 5 | modern times is usually situated on the lands of a sovereign
3131 11,1 | gave way to the idea of a six-pointed Cross symbolizing the original
3132 2,4 | processions, signifying the six-winged Seraphim who minister at
3133 1,1 | the Master (John 11:16); skeptical about the Resurrection,
3134 10,2 | an introduction briefly sketching the conquests of Alexander
3135 5,1 | Great Schema (Russian — Skhimnik). The Probationer who enters
3136 1,4 | taught the natives this skill as well, so that, with these
3137 2,4 | Governing may not be of the skins of dead animals (i.e., leather),
3138 1,5 | 1949, Archbishop Mstislav (Skrypnik) was elected Primate of
3139 2,7 | awarded a pointed hat (the Skufia) or a tall flat-brimmed
3140 5,2 | and sponge, as well as the skull and crossbones. Like the
3141 6,2 | goodwill. He answers lies and slanders with patience and silence,
3142 11,1 | Christ's head, and the lower slanting arm represents His footrest.
3143 7,2 | was covered with an old sleeve of cherry-red cloth; the
3144 4,1 | the stone on which he had slept and called it Bethel, meaning
3145 4,7 | refused to let us go, the Lord slew all the first-born in the
3146 8,4 | prayers!~And in general, how slothful I have been, weakened by
3147 3,8 | Greek — Ieratikon; Russian — Sluzhebnik).~This is an Altar Book
3148 2,5 | Three Veils are used: two smaller ones to cover the Paten
3149 6,2 | they were aware of their smallness and unworthiness before
3150 1,4 | interest in his message until a smallpox epidemic hit the area. Father
3151 10,1 | Peace and the Good Shepherd smitten for His flock. Chapter 9:
3152 7,2 | the dining-hall with the smoking torch. Suddenly he was struck
3153 6,0 | were afflicted by poisonous snakes in the Wilderness, Moses
3154 6,0 | into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and
3155 11,1 | because his Gospel seems to soar on eagles' wings.~The four
3156 3,2 | intercession, like the smoke soaring upwards from the censer,
3157 11,2 | as the smoke of incense soars upward, so too prayer ascends
3158 8,4 | point of satiety, lacked sobriety and been drunken, intemperate
3159 1,4 | Hierarch, Bishop Vladimir (Sokolovsky) was appointed in 1881,
3160 6,2 | their brother Joseph and sold him into slavery in Egypt
3161 1,3 | involved, Father John found a solid foundation upon which to
3162 6,3 | reason — by virtue of her solidarity with all humanity — the
3163 10,2 | Brothers, and their mother, Solomonia, and was probably written
3164 | sometime
3165 3,7 | Church — in essence, is a song-book. Orthodox hymnody developed
3166 3,7 | simple, resembling a rhythmic song-speech, following the natural inflections
3167 9,8 | turbulent and troubled thoughts, soothes irritation of the soul...
3168 1,0 | followers of St. Nilus of Sora († 1508 — commemorated May
3169 4,0 | the king was exceedingly sorry; but because of his oaths
3170 9,2 | soul, together with one's soulful aspirations, should be lifted
3171 3,3 | sing the Antiphons (Greek — sounding in answer — responsive singing
3172 10,1 | and the Lord's universal sovereignty (vs. 19-21).~ ~Jonah.~The
3173 10,3 | of the air. they neither sow nor reap nor gather into
3174 9,6 | might, for both the grain (sown in the ground) and the fruit (
3175 2,2 | Psalm reading) and the open spaces were seen to be especially
3176 2,2 | in ancient times a large, spacious place, wherein the Catechumens
3177 10,3 | can add one cubit to his span of fife? And why are you
3178 11,1 | Maltese: This consists of four spearheads with points together. The
3179 Pref | the scholarly pursuit of a specialized class of clergy. We can,
3180 3,2 | Litany is followed by a specially-appointed Kathisma (from kathizo —
3181 7,2 | Dnieprovsky Gates, under a specially-constructed roof. Later, in 1727, there
3182 5 | struggle. The life of a Monk is specifically regulated to the acquisition
3183 2,2 | that the Church Typikon specifies that penitential services (
3184 3,2 | is chanted, wherein we specify which mercies we desire,
3185 10,3 | connections with Greek philosophic speculation and oriental mysticism.~
3186 10,3 | was to correct erroneous speculations which had arisen because
3187 1,4 | characteristic of which was the speed of its expansion. Within
3188 9,1 | if our prayers will rise speedily to God, they must be said
3189 4,0 | them and told them of the speedy departure of the Most-Holy
3190 5,1 | and so on. A soldier first spends time in Boot Camp, being
3191 7,2 | of a circular shield (or sphere) is the Divine Infant —
3192 10,3 | grow; they neither toil nor spin) yet I tell you, even Solomon
3193 1,4 | heresy of the Pneumatomachi (Spiritsmashers) and the Macedonians (followers
3194 9,3 | truly ineffable power. It spiritualizes a man, renews him, inspires
3195 8,1 | his works, breathing and spitting on him as a sign of this
3196 9,8 | is often so emotional and spontaneous that he does not pay attention
3197 1,3 | Church were characterized by sporadic, but bloody, persecutions.
3198 1,0 | there were a few bright spots. Missionary activity, always
3199 6,0 | and one who is not one's spouse, but also unclean desires
3200 10,3 | by Paul himself. The Word spreads from Jerusalem to Samaria (
3201 1 | Christian communities had sprung up in all the main centers
3202 7 | ourselves through them and to spur ourselves on to zealous
3203 2,2 | which are fastened to staffs. These are carried in triumphant
3204 1,4 | Mission was brought to a new stage of maturity. For the first
3205 6,0 | Commandments in which we are given standards of conduct, our Lord gives
3206 2,5 | the Living and the Dead.~ ~Star-Cover (Asterisk).~This consists
3207 1,0 | direction, eldership (or starchestvo) developed, especially popularized
3208 5 | of a spiritual elder (or starets — in this case Pachomius
3209 4,5 | separately at the meal, starting with bitter foods and ending
3210 3,8 | divided into their respective Stases or divisions. They are numbered
3211 4,2 | were offered before the statue and pagan rites were celebrated,
3212 4,0 | Lord bore witness to the stature of His Baptizer. Jesus began
3213 1,4 | the writing of a permanent Statute for the American Church
3214 3,9 | called Cross-Theotokia (or Stavro-Theotokia).~ ~Troparion.~This is simply
3215 1,1 | Simonopetra, Dionysiou, Grigoriou, Stavronikita, and Philotheou, and two
3216 5,1 | Schema (Cross-bearer or Stavrophore), and 3) Monk of the Great
3217 1,0 | only sorrow and a dreadful stench. Their religion is not good.
3218 9,8 | endow the Psalms with the stern beauty of an epic literary
3219 7,2 | was Superior.~In 1664, the Steward, Nilos, passing through
3220 9,8 | and recalls the past, and stipulates laws for life and rules
3221 2,5 | invariably commented on the stirring clamor of the more than
3222 7,2 | returned to the ancient town of Stolbovo, not far from Tikhvin, where
3223 8,4 | sometimes, also a coarse and stony heart that interferes with
3224 4,4 | tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb; and
3225 4,4 | reached the tomb first; and stooping to look in, he saw the linen
3226 | stop
3227 3,8 | Thee in purity of heart.” Stopping before the closed outer
3228 5,1 | prostrations on the way, and then stops before the Holy Doors where
3229 7,2 | to dig at a spot where a stove had once stood, and others
3230 4,0 | Pure Theotokos rose, they straightened themselves out again, honoring
3231 6,0 | Christians we are commanded to be straightforward in everything — to be above
3232 6,2 | wide and broad one, and the strait and narrow one. The wide
3233 7,2 | before which she heard a strange voice: “If you do not relate
3234 1,1 | field was bought to bury strangers in (Matt. 27:3-10).~ ~St.
3235 4,5 | table itself is covered with straw and linen, which reminds
3236 8,4 | it that my eyes are not streaming with constant tears? ...
3237 8,3 | but is also the means for strengthening this unity. Therefore St.
3238 5,1 | who desires to perform any strenuous task is that of preparation.
3239 6,4 | The Theotokos is a Ladder, stretching from earth to Heaven, for
3240 5 | number of Monks living a stricter ascetical life prayer.~Skete
3241 2,5 | number of the Gospel — one strike for the first, two for the
3242 5,2 | shoulders and waist by means of strings or cords sewn to the corners,
3243 2,7 | doctrines. In addition, strips of~cloth (called fountains)
3244 6,2 | peace must be sought and striven for (1 Pet. 3:11), and cherished
3245 3,8 | Holy Pascha.~At the stroke of Midnight, the clergy
3246 3,7 | into Troparia, Kontakia and strophic hymns on these Biblical
3247 5,2 | to that dignity usually struggled for many years in the monastic
3248 1,1 | strict Pharisee, having studied under the respected Rabbi
3249 8,4 | of God's mercy or through stupid habit, insensitivity, ignorance,
3250 8,4 | How often have I laughed stupidly, mocked and derided, spoke
3251 2,1 | many places, became quite stylized. Historians are not in agreement
3252 3,1 | power over the stomach, subdues the flesh and permits it
3253 6,2 | blessed the Name of God when subjected to severe trials, were all
3254 6,3 | remaining in evil, strive to subjugate men, too, to sin (2 Thess.
3255 7,2 | the Terrible), who had subjugated the city of Kazan with the
3256 6,3 | which surrounded them were submissive and served them (Gen. 1:
3257 8,2 | and a number of aromatic substances symbolizing the various
3258 1,3 | Russian-American Company, with substantial assistance also provided
3259 6,6 | Faith in the Church is not a substitute for faith in God. To believe
3260 6,0 | under divine inspiration substituted the first day of the week,
3261 4,7 | the Lord was now done by substitution: ...the firstborn of man
3262 3,5 | ancient calendars added or subtracted a period called an epact
3263 7,1 | Christ, unable, however, to succeed. The Savior Himself called
3264 1,9 | Romanian Metropolitan of Suceava in Moldavia was recognized
3265 1,1 | Christians there, he had a sudden vision of the Lord, Who
3266 6,2 | further: If any one would sue you and take your coat,
3267 3,3 | were not considered to be sufficiently prepared by the early Church
3268 11,1 | has ends like fish hooks, suggesting the Christians as fishers
3269 10,3 | moralistic nature. Thus it offers suggestions for the regulation of worship (
3270 11,1 | circle, symbol of eternity, suggests the eternity of Redemption.~
3271 6,0 | taking of one's own life (suicide) is so strongly condemned.
3272 10,1 | follows: Hymns (acts of praise suitable for any occasion); Laments (
3273 2,1 | the shape was particularly suited to shed the large amounts
3274 1,5 | Constantinople to the Turkish Sultan, Mohammed II. The Greek-speaking
3275 6,2 | rise step by step to the summit of spiritual perfection.
3276 2,1 | roofs), called crests or summits. One cupola signifies Christ,
3277 3,8 | fully-laden) all of you feast sumptuously. The calf is fatted; let
3278 7,2 | Goiskaya provided large sums for its upkeep. Later, in
3279 8,4 | my soul will be painfully sundered from my sinful and vile
3280 3,2 | darkness and who had been sunk deep in the night, experiencing
3281 3,1 | was considered to begin at sunset and thus was divided according
3282 8,3 | every joint with which it is sup plied...makes bodily growth
3283 6,1 | supplementing the old, but not superceding it.~Our Lord tells us that
3284 8,1 | Baptism a “new element — a supernatural one which remains hidden
3285 1,3 | leaving an Auxiliary Bishop to supervise the American part of his
3286 8,6 | title was given to a Monk supervising several monasteries or who
3287 8,1 | recovered, the Sacrament must be supplemented according the Church Order,
3288 6,1 | constantly assumes new forms, supplementing the old, but not superceding
3289 3,4 | Thee, and pray Thee, and supplicate Thee: Send down Thy Holy
3290 1,3 | climate, the difficulty of supplying the Mission because of the
3291 1,0 | while the Possessors, great supporters of the idea of the Third
3292 7,2 | sitting on a throne and supporting with both arms in front
3293 11,2 | 12).~Shamrock: This was supposedly used by St. Patrick of Ireland
3294 10,3 | doctrinal section in which the supremacy of Christ in the cosmos,
3295 7,2 | standing upright on the surface of the water, giving off
3296 3,8 | over death — the Cross, surmounted by a crown of thorns, or
3297 5 | when my desire to possess surpasses all other thoughts or reason.
3298 10,3 | 3), are urged not to be surprised at the fiery ordeal which
3299 1 | the Gentiles, so that in a surprisingly short time, Christian communities
3300 5 | acquired through the total surrender of the Monk to an instructor
3301 4,0 | greeting Her Son, the Virgin surrendered her pure soul into His hands.
3302 6,3 | which we live and all that surrounds the earth — and finished
3303 10,3 | time to time by doubts and suspicions on both sides, but for no
3304 10,1 | was marvelously guiding, sustaining, and disciplining His people
3305 10,1 | is silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous
3306 11,1 | known to us by the name swastika, and is a symbol that seems
3307 9,6 | plums, raisins and other sweets) is often offered on these
3308 1,4 | Within 100 years, they had swept across North Africa and
3309 7,2 | hide or set them afloat on swift rivers or seas, entrusting
3310 6,4 | before the Throne of God, swinging a censer, representing the
3311 7,2 | angels holding unsheathed swords. Venerable Job was seen
3312 2,5 | charcoal and incense. This is swung at many places during the
3313 2,1 | slanted, crossbeam below. Symbolically, the three bars represent,
3314 1,4 | Romanians, Greeks, Russians, Syrians and Albanians began to come
3315 9,8 | Psalmist does not aim to systematize the Biblical teachings upon
3316 3,7 | roots of the canonical chant systems. Kastalsky particularly
3317 11,1 | Bishop of Verona, had a T-shaped Cross erected on the dome
3318 6,0 | books, magazines, movies, T.V. programs, etc., as well
3319 10,1 | conviction that the holy God tabernacles in the midst of His people
3320 10,1 | with an appendix containing tales about the migration of the
3321 4,9 | shone because he had been talking with God. And when Aaron
3322 9,7 | continuing even when one talks or writes, is present in
3323 2,7 | pointed hat (the Skufia) or a tall flat-brimmed hat (the Kamilavka),
3324 5,1 | the Novice that he must tame the heat of the passions.
3325 3,8 | so, be not alarmed at his tardiness; for the Lord, Who is jealous
3326 3,8 | fearing nothing. If any have tarried even until the eleventh
3327 4,1 | dead (John 12:1). While tarrying there, in the house of Lazarus,
3328 1,2 | Antioch, fetching Paul from Tarsus to help him. Later, he and
3329 3,8 | He embittered it when it tasted of His flesh. And Isaiah,
3330 8,4 | myself on delicacies, on tasty, varied and diverse foods
3331 11,1 | glorify!”~ ~Types of Crosses.~Tau (or “T”): This is so-called
3332 1,1 | James the Younger and was a tax collector. The First Gospel
3333 2,3 | tier is usually called the Tchin (or rank). Often this tier
3334 7,2 | and Barlaam of Khutinsk, tearfully beseeching them not to leave
3335 10,1 | from the Judean village of Tekoa, he was called by God to
3336 1,2 | When I had finished telling him this, Father [Herman]
3337 10,5 | 1 Thessalonians 1:3~Temperate in all things ......................
3338 3,4 | contended with Satan, the Temptor.~The time of Great Lent
3339 9,2 | do not be like a man who tempts the Lord (Sirach 18:23).
3340 1,4 | later at the Seminary in Tenafly, New Jersey, as the Dean
3341 9,8 | New Testament sometimes tend to forget that the Psalter
3342 2,1 | Period, Russian churches tended toward the onion domes,
3343 10,3 | ascetical and legalistic tendencies are counteracted by a spiritual
3344 3,4 | Centuries, it well conveys the tender and penitent feelings with
3345 1,1 | had learned the trade of a tent-maker (Acts 18:1-3) and had inherited
3346 8,6 | eminence (e.g., Bishops of long tenure) the Church of Russia still
3347 10,2 | deutero — second). This term is to be preferred over
3348 3,8 | contained within), is generally termed the Lenten Triodion, within
3349 1,5 | but it had been officially terminated in the latter years of the
3350 1,1 | the Church has suffered terribly, her clergy forbidden to
3351 7,2 | that ran down the cheek terrified the robber. He turned to
3352 1,3 | Archdiocese, with increased territories, Bishop Innocent transferred
3353 3,2 | in contrast to the Old Testamental character of Vespers, gives
3354 4,7 | arms, and the Old and New Testaments stood together: the Old,
3355 6,0 | traditional division is testified to by our Lord Jesus Christ
3356 7,2 | the services in its honor testify to the great love and veneration
3357 6,2 | trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness (
3358 7,1 | The Apostle of the 70, Thaddeus, came to them and preached
3359 10,4 | 101; Ps. 110; Ps. 139~When Thankful: Ps. 65; Ps. 84; Ps. 92;
3360 3,8 | third hour, let him with thankfulness keep the Feast. If any have
3361 10,3 | Philippian congregation, thanking them for their gift and
3362 10,1 | God's readiness to help); Thanksgivings (in which an individual
3363 6,2 | man differs little from the-Angels”; purity of heart “brings
3364 5 | literature was St. Paul of Thebes († 341) who lived over sixty
3365 | thence
3366 1,4 | suppressed by the Empress Theodora in 843. This final victory
3367 10,3 | longest and most weighty, theologically, thus giving it first place
3368 1,0 | on September 2). In 1037, Theopemptos was consecrated Metropolitan
3369 6,2 | Scriptures,” says the Blessed Theophilact. Like the other Beatitudes
3370 6,2 | priest, Arius. The basic theory of the Arians' false teaching
3371 | thereby
3372 1,1 | of Palestine), and from thereto Egypt, where he was martyred
3373 | Thereupon
3374 1,1 | in 1881 the Dioceses of Thessaly and a part of Epirus were
3375 2,7 | Nabedrennik and the Palitsa (thighshields), which are worn at the
3376 6,6 | for she lives, acts, and thinks by the Holy Spirit (Acts
3377 9,6 | that is, in honor of the Third-Day Resurrection of our Lord
3378 1,0 | sits down, looks hither and thither like one possessed, and
3379 10,5 | Romans 12:20~A thorn in the flesh.........................
3380 10,3 | described in 19:11-21. The thousand-year reign of Christ is described
3381 9,8 | and traces in detail the thousands-year-old paths and fortunes of nations.
3382 10,4 | Anxious: Ps. 46~When Disaster Threatens: Ps. 34; Ps. 91; Ps. 121~
3383 8,4 | people, giving in to the threats of the persecutors, apostasized
3384 11,1 | the Cross (Matt. 27:37).~Three-Barred: This Cross existed very
3385 7,2 | militia took upon themselves a three-day fast, and with prayer entreated
3386 3,8 | by its extensive use of Three-Ode Canons (although there are
3387 11,1 | normally consisted of a three-pointed cross made of two planks
3388 11,2 | This symbol, white, with a three-rayed nimbus descending, is the
3389 4,4 | return of Paradise lost, the threshold of the Holy of Holies of
3390 1,9 | Church actually began to thrive. In 1359 a Wallachian Metropolitan
3391 1,3 | on the right side of his throat which brought him to the
3392 4,6 | Seraphim and Cherubim, Thrones, Dominions, Powers, Authorities,
3393 7,1 | Him because of the great throng of people listening to His
3394 4,5 | turning to prayer. They thronged to the Church of Blachernae (
3395 4,1 | Jesus was accompanied by throngs of people who had followed
3396 3,0 | prostrates the whole body, throwing the weight forwards onto
3397 11,1 | lower end so they could be thrust into the ground easily at
3398 4,0 | heard a loud noise, like thunder, and a cloud encircled the
3399 9,6 | God: struck down by deadly thunderbolts from heaven, swallowed by
3400 10,7 | John 9:1-38~Holy Ascension (Thurs.) Acts 1:1-12 Luke 24:36-
3401 4,5 | against the invaders. The tide of battle turned against
3402 1,4 | Petersburg, and the long tie with the Diocese of Eastern
3403 3,7 | adaptations based on the timbre of the English language,
3404 8,4 | many hours have I spent in time-wasting and emptiness! What shall
3405 9,5 | we ask God to send us His timely help. God is faithful, and
3406 1,5 | in October, 1971. Another tiny Albanian Diocese in America
3407 3,0 | right hand joined at the tips (the third and fourth fingers
3408 1,1 | Damian, the primal See of Tirane remains vacant.~ ~Poland.~
3409 10,6 | Prayer for the offering of tithes.............. Deuteronomy
3410 1,4 | to Sitka, where the local Tlingit population was intensely
3411 1,2 | they cut off one of the toe joints from one foot, and
3412 2,7 | ministers of the truth.~As tokens of honor, a Priest also
3413 1,1 | Metropolitan, who lives in Tokyo, and one other Bishop, who,
3414 2,5 | Perebor).~This is the slow tolling of each bell, beginning
3415 1,4 | Council accepted the so-called Tome of Pope St. Leo the Great
3416 5,1 | his hand. Then the Abbot tonsures the Novice's head in the
3417 9,7 | In the Service for the Tonsuring of a Monk, when he is given
3418 10,3 | the Acts) has three main topics, corresponding to the three
3419 6,2 | will be helpful. If anyone torments or oppresses us by making
3420 1,2 | Then the fanatics set about torturing them. First they tortured
3421 1,4 | as its Pastor, Fr. Alexis Toth, into the Orthodox Church.
3422 4,2 | When the Cross of Christ touched the dead one, he immediately
3423 6,2 | irritability, impatience, touchiness and irascibility, for by
3424 3,4 | me worthy to partake wit/tout condemnation of Thy most
3425 2,1 | found one or more cupolas (towers with rounded or pointed
3426 4,0 | Jerusalem and the surrounding towns. With weeping they came
3427 10,3 | mission is highlighted by a) tracing his genealogy back to Adam (
3428 1,1 | young age he had learned the trade of a tent-maker (Acts 18:
3429 1,5 | occurred one of the greatest tragedies of the Christian world —
3430 5,1 | time in Boot Camp, being trained physically and mentally
3431 9,1 | the help of God, gradually trains his mind to collect itself,
3432 6,2 | warmth and sympathy has the traits of mercy. The merciful,
3433 1,2 | the reign of the Emperor Trajan. His Feast Day is April
3434 Intro | Christ is absent [To the Trallians].~St. Cyprian of Carthage (†
3435 8,4 | deed, and in this fashion trampled the Blood of God's covenant
3436 3,1 | Now” [The Festal Menaion, trans. Mother Mary and Archimandrite
3437 4,4 | Virgin gives birth to the Transcendent One, and the earth offers
3438 6,8 | Christian looks on death as the transition to an eternal life.~ ~
3439 2,3 | human, the permanent and the transitory. The Holy Icons denote that
3440 10,1 | journey from Kadesh via the Transjordan for the purpose of approaching
3441 7 | from the material world to transmit the revelation of the divine
3442 7 | Great (f379), “what the word transmits through the ear, that painting
3443 7 | prefigurations and symbols of truth transmitted to the Church, we prefer
3444 1,9 | Argesin the foothills of the Transylvanian Alps and in 1401, the Romanian
3445 1,4 | fourteen months of difficult travel across the wilds of Siberia
3446 1,1 | disciple, forever a symbol of treachery, the son of Simon, was from
3447 6,2 | Lord overcame the world by treading the path of persecution
3448 9,7 | spontaneously [Mystical Treatises].~ ~Thus, both to those
3449 1,0 | and gentle concerning the treatment of heretics, considering
3450 3,8 | Book of Needs. (Russian — Trebnik).~This book contains five
3451 11,1 | one near the base.~Cross Trefflee: This is another form of
3452 4,4 | for fear of him the guards trembled and became like dead men.
3453 9,5 | forgive his neighbor, the trespasser. When we forgive our trespassers,
3454 9,5 | trespasser. When we forgive our trespassers, then God will also forgive
3455 11,2 | of God looks out from the triangle, which represents the Trinity.
3456 4,4 | he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was in
3457 7,2 | desecrated, pious people tried to hide or set them afloat
3458 9,8 | past and bygone years, and tries to grasp the significance
3459 1,5 | lay theologian, Viorel D. Trifa was elected Bishop (Valerian).
3460 4,7 | Himself redeemed for so trifling a sum.~Now there was a man
3461 2,6 | and His humanity, and the trikeri, representing the Holy Trinity.
3462 2,7 | and the other with three (trikiri). The one symbolizes the
3463 9,6 | in the Name of the Holy Trinity-Father, Son and Holy Spirit — and
3464 1,3 | his monastic life at the Trinity-St. Sergius Hermitage near
3465 10,3 | refrained from making a second trip, knowing that it too would
3466 9,6 | by them [the orders] they triply proclaim and praise the
3467 9,5 | Angelic Host and the Church Triumphant-known biblically as Heaven. Therefore
3468 4,4 | as the Paschal Hymn so triumphantly proclaims: “Christ is risen
3469 1,1 | Bulgarian Patriarchal See of Trnovo was suppressed and the Bulgarian
3470 7,2 | around the camp so that the troops would be strengthened. The
3471 4,2 | bestowing on them the invincible trophy, Thy weapon of peace.~ ~
3472 7,2 | 1612, during the Time of Troubless, the Kazan Icon was responsible
3473 7 | clearly seen. The Council in Trullo (691-2), in its 82nd Rule,
3474 6,2 | you give alms, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites
3475 4,6 | of a dove, confirmed the truthfulness of His word. O Christ our
3476 1,5 | domains of the Most Pious Tsars of Russia.~ ~
3477 3,2 | Therefore it is sung only on the Tuesdays of Great Lent.~In the shortened
3478 9,6 | present-day Province of Tula in Russia), Prince Dimitry
3479 4,1 | out over Jerusalem. The tumultuous joy of the people following
3480 9,8 | giver of peace, for it calms turbulent and troubled thoughts, soothes
3481 1,4 | in Russia.~Bishop Leonty (Turkevich) was elected the new Primate
3482 1,0 | was not without its own turmoils however. In 1503 came the
3483 3,8 | 20). As Cyril, Bishop of Turov, who lived during the 12th
3484 4,7 | of the Lord, “a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons” (
3485 9,6 | in some places, on the twentieth day, and the third, sixth
3486 3,1 | by the Church, once every twenty-four hours. These services express
3487 10 | Letters) of which there are twenty-one, written by Sts. Paul, James,
3488 10 | Testament, of which there are twenty-seven, fall into four categories:
3489 10,5 | Romans 6:23~In the twinkling of an eye....................
3490 10,3 | Evangelist. The letter has a two-fold purpose: 1) to deepen the
3491 3,7 | matter of fact, more than two-thirds of the Bible is phrased
3492 4,0 | Feast there is a strict two-week fast, beginning on August
3493 8,8 | that this Sacrament has a twofold purpose — bodily healing
3494 1,5 | Ukrainian Orthodox Church U.S.A., is headquartered in Winnipeg,
3495 1,1 | Africa (primarily Kenya and Uganda). The rapid expansion of
3496 7,2 | III on the banks of the Ugra River (called the Sash of
3497 1,5 | Council. A large group of Ukrainians, however, remained loyal
3498 6,5 | will continue to preserve unaltered the Undivided Church's teaching
3499 6,2 | 14:22). Tribulations are unavoidable as an accompaniment to this
3500 3,6 | Fathers considered that it was unbefitting the contrition of Great
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