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3501 10,3 | 19-4:54); Conflicts with unbelievers (Ch. 5-12); Fellowship with
3502 Intro | Carthage († 258) points out the unbreakable unity between Believers
3503 1,4 | her people to remain in unbroken spiritual communion of prayer
3504 1,0 | Church was placed under an uncanonical Synodal System, whereby
3505 6,2 | The Savior declares in no uncertain terms that men shall persecute
3506 3,3 | school lunchroom. In cases of uncertainty, however, one should always
3507 6,4 | united without confusion, unchangeably, indivisibly, and inseparably
3508 1,4 | two natures unconfused, unchanged, undivided and inseparable.”
3509 8,4 | attention to those in need, been uncharitable, miserly, unsympathetic,
3510 8,7 | divorces his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another, commits
3511 7 | God, being incorporeal and uncircumscribed, was never depicted, since
3512 3,1 | to commit fornication and uncleanness. Abstinence is the mother
3513 1,4 | acknowledged in two natures unconfused, unchanged, undivided and
3514 3,2 | Prayers of Light, with head uncovered. He symbolizes Adam sorrowing
3515 9,7 | presence will remain as an undercurrent in our soul.” [This and
3516 3,6 | only must we repent and undergo a change of heart, but that
3517 10,3 | of Asia Minor, who were undergoing persecution (ca. 64 A.D.).
3518 6,2 | other Beatitudes cannot undertake the feat of bearing suffering,
3519 6,2 | is the first task to be undertaken for our salvation, for God
3520 3,3 | since each contains prayers undoubtedly composed by St. John and
3521 10,1 | Assyria and Judah lived uneasily in its shadow. Isaiah attacks
3522 7 | is indescribable and is unencompassable. Holy Scripture states categorically:
3523 8,4 | it deserves ceaseless, unending weeping and crying; let
3524 4,9 | Himself to sinners in quite unexpected ways, it is usually those
3525 7 | of Christianity, but is unfailingly connected with it; and this
3526 10,1 | Israel, not God, had been unfaithful to the Sinai Covenant. If
3527 6,1 | Evangelist points out two unfathomable mysteries, that of birth
3528 8,4 | indifference, my weakness and unfeelingness in what concerns the Holy
3529 7,2 | Herself suddenly appeared, unfurling her white and shining omophor,
3530 6,3 | 28:19). God the Father is ungenerated and does not proceed from
3531 1,0 | mosque, while they stand ungirt. The Bulgarian bows, sits
3532 10,1 | ominous future (later, the unhappy present) would be replaced
3533 9,2 | the omitted prayers to go unheeded; these can be completed
3534 10,3 | Resurrection of Jesus to the unhindered preaching of the Christian
3535 1,4 | Alexander Dzubay from the Unia to Orthodoxy and presided
3536 10,1 | King David. Originally one unified work, Samuel was early divided
3537 Pref | have passed on to us.~It is uniquely Orthodox that theology is
3538 3,7 | monophonic (single-line unison singing). But part-singing
3539 1,5 | 1054, however, although not universally applied at first, was never
3540 6,3 | unbelief, that Mary, a virgin, unloosed by her faith” [Against the
3541 3,3 | Monks and Nuns, 7) Holy Unmercenaries and Physicians, 8) the Ancestors
3542 8,4 | of money and miserliness, unmercifulness and cruelty;~I weep over
3543 8,4 | voluptuous sensations, and unnaturally satisfied the lusts of the
3544 6,0 | commands us not to perform unnecessary work, but rather to honor
3545 8,2 | unchanging, unharmed, untouched, unoppressed, safe from the designs of
3546 1,3 | missionaries, accounted for the unparalleled success of the Mission.~
3547 1,0 | Revolution of that year and the unprecedented persecutions which followed.
3548 8,4 | fear and trembling, will be unprepared and unable to give them
3549 6,1 | blindness and fundamental unreadiness to receive the Truth, our
3550 6,1 | exterminate and mortify our unreasonable desires.” It is this that
3551 3,7 | of one Orthodox culture unrecognizable to another. There are in
3552 8,4 | and cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9). It is not
3553 8,3 | the manner of operation unsearchable” [On the Orthodox Faith,
3554 3,8 | seen, and fell upon the unseen.~O Death, where is your
3555 1,1 | Finland in 1917 and the unsettled situation in Russia after
3556 6,6 | this life man attains an unshakeable conviction of the truth
3557 8,3 | up the Church, firmly and unshakeably abiding in faith and joined
3558 7,2 | heavenly angels holding unsheathed swords. Venerable Job was
3559 5,1 | Novice stands unclothed and unshod in the Narthex, wearing
3560 4,0 | Mother of God was filled with unspeakable joy and, falling down on
3561 1,0 | for his country and he was unsure which to choose: the Islam
3562 10,1 | leave the future to God's unswerving faithfulness and to His
3563 8,4 | been uncharitable, miserly, unsympathetic, mercenary and grasped at
3564 6,0 | are pronounced casually, unthinkingly or even for shock effect.
3565 9,6 | prays for those who have met untimely deaths and have been left
3566 9,1 | Col. 4:2) and it must be untiring and relentless, pursuing
3567 6,3 | while his conscience was untroubled and at peace. When our first
3568 9,8 | psychology of sin and virtue with unusual depth.~The theme of most
3569 10,1 | humorous deception, to become unwilling allies of the Gibeonites (
3570 6,2 | humility considers himself the unworthiest among men and attributes
3571 6,2 | aware of their smallness and unworthiness before God, and were filled
3572 8,1 | spiritual and religious upbringing of the child, for which
3573 7,2 | provided large sums for its upkeep. Later, in 1602, the Icon
3574 1,1 | in Rome, being crucified upside down at his own request,
3575 3,2 | like the smoke soaring upwards from the censer, ascends
3576 3,7 | serves to remind us of the urgency of the End — it is near
3577 8,4 | had caused the death of Uriah, the husband of Bathsheba
3578 3,7 | nothing better, nothing more useful or more holy that they could
3579 9,3 | heard because they ask for useless things,” because they insist
3580 9,7 | who are only occasional users of it, the Jesus Prayer
3581 4,2 | the Lamb that was slain is ushered into the preserve of God
3582 4,1 | Temple, “the Heavenly Gate, ushering in Christ to the Universe
3583 1,5 | 1926, a Bishop, Mardary (Uskokovich) was consecrated by the
3584 3,0 | characterized by a complete utilization of the senses — sight, smell,
3585 9,3 | One can be heard without uttering any words. While walking
3586 3,2 | posterity that they should utterly obey the will of God. The
3587 10,1 | IV (Ps. 90-106); and Book V (Ps. 107-150). [Orthodox
3588 1,4 | many of the Tlingits to be vaccinated, saving many of them from
3589 1,9 | Christian. After a period of vacillation between East and West, Serbia
3590 8,4 | often have I been proud and vainglorious and boasted of good qualities
3591 6,0 | forbidden to use God's name vainly and to swear false oaths,
3592 4,0 | take her from this present vale of sorrows.~The All-Chaste
3593 10,1 | answer that is eternally valid: God is still Lord and in
3594 8,2 | the Holy Spirit, which is validated by the presence of His Divinity....
3595 10,3 | apostolic authority and the validity of his teachings (1:1-2:
3596 1,6 | Polycarp, which contain valuable information on the dogmas,
3597 Pref | reconstruction, but those truths, values and behavior commonly practiced,
3598 4,1 | victory, we cry out to Thee: O Vanquisher of Death: Hosanna in the
3599 4,3 | beneath, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke; the sun shall
3600 3,5 | that there is often a great variance from one year to the next
3601 3,5 | the date of Pascha, which varies from year to year. According
3602 3,5 | by the Orthodox Church, vary from those calculated by
3603 4,6 | March, which, in antiquity, \vas the beginning of the year) —
3604 3,2 | songs. Each Song, in the vast number of Canons of the
3605 8 | material flesh and made it a vehicle of the Holy Spirit. We also
3606 1,0 | especially popularized by Paisius Velichkovsky and his Philokalia, reached
3607 4,1 | Church holds precious and venerates — that of Mary, the Theotokos
3608 9,2 | consists of purging all vengeful thoughts from one's heart (
3609 1,4 | late Bishop Benjamin (or Veniamin) of Irkutsk. Not long after
3610 9,1 | the Prayer. Through this verbal prayer — through the diligent
3611 3,7 | nationality has adapted the verbo-melodic models to the natural rhythmic
3612 10,3 | to those who were on the verge of giving up their Christian
3613 11,1 | and St. Zeno, Bishop of Verona, had a T-shaped Cross erected
3614 3,3 | the inner aspect, and vice versa. The Kontakia, however,
3615 9,7 | is a prayer of amazing versatility; it is a prayer for beginners
3616 11,1 | Later this X was bisected vertically by the Greek letter I, forming,
3617 3,6 | Gifts.~The structure of the Vesperal part of the Presanctified
3618 3,3 | Deacon). After this they vest with appropriate prayers
3619 5,1 | the Lord.” The Abbot then vests him with the Outer Riasa (
3620 10,3 | earnest pastoral letter from a veteran missionary to a younger
3621 | via
3622 3,3 | to the inner aspect, and vice versa. The Kontakia, however,
3623 4,0 | The Holy Greatmartyr and Victorybearer George (Apr. 23).~The Holy
3624 6,2 | Heaven.~The Beatitudes can be viewed as a single system — a ladder
3625 9,5 | the Lord urges us to be vigilant and sober of spirit, to
3626 10,3 | Chapters 10-13 contain a vigorous defense of Paul and his
3627 1,5 | which the lay theologian, Viorel D. Trifa was elected Bishop (
3628 7 | that strikes a non-Orthodox visitor to an Orthodox church is
3629 7,2 | Gabriel that this was a visual sign that she herself wished
3630 3,4 | that is, the warmth and vitality of the Holy Spirit.~After
3631 6,6 | those who enter her and she vitalizes and elevates man, making
3632 6,7 | revives nature, a power vitally necessary for human life.
3633 7,2 | The daughter of Prince Vitovtus, Sophia, was given in marriage
3634 1,2 | traveled with the explorers Vitus Bering and Alexei Chirikov,
3635 6,5 | earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the
3636 1,0 | followers of St. Joseph of Volokolamsk, † 1515, commemorated September
3637 1,4 | his family and friends, he volunteered to go. After fourteen months
3638 4,0 | of St. Tikhon, Bishop of Voronezh, Wonderworker of Zadonsk
3639 1,5 | meeting in Youngstown, Ohio, voted to establish a Romanian
3640 4,0 | I will grant it.” And he vowed to her, “Whatever you ask
3641 7,2 | the Devichy Monastery of Vyshgorod — an ancient appanage town
3642 10,5 | 1 Corinthians 9:25~The wages of sin is death .........................
3643 4,4 | brought decay and death in its wake. But Christ abolished original
3644 4,9 | with sleep, and when they wakened they saw His glory and the
3645 9,7 | present in one's dreams and wakes him up in the morning.~ ~
3646 9,8 | herald is flaming fire; He walks upon the wings of the wind (
3647 2,6 | would in broad daylight wander as if lost in darkness” [
3648 3,2 | itself those who had formerly wandered in darkness and who had
3649 9 | calls God, but the mind wanders amongst created things.”
3650 3,6 | from God's house, a life of wantonness, misery at our fallen state,
3651 1,1 | Metropolitan who lives in Warsaw.~ ~Czechoslovakia.~The Church
3652 3,7 | taking the place of Christ, washes the feet of twelve Priests,
3653 7,2 | to set the Icon afloat, watched, the Holy Image did not
3654 3,7 | near at hand and we must be watchful and repent while there is
3655 6,2 | strengthen those whose faith is wavering, teach others kindness,
3656 7,2 | profoundly agitated by fresh waves of iconoclasm under Emperor
3657 4,1 | of people, rejoicing and waving palm branches, who, as St.
3658 8,4 | how slothful I have been, weakened by indolence and inaction;
3659 9,1 | towards God, dejection, a weakening of the faith and a darkening
3660 9,3 | indulgence towards their own weaknesses, and do not gather spiritual
3661 5,1 | Novice is called “Riasaphor” (Wearer of the Robe), but, as noted,
3662 10,4 | 38; Ps. 40; Ps. 139~When Weary: Ps. 6; Ps. 27; Ps. 55;
3663 3,3 | needs — peace, seasonable weather, God's help for travelers,
3664 11,2 | form, indivisible in their weaving.~Triquetra and Circle: The
3665 8,7 | strictly forbidden.~ ~When Weddings are Not to be Celebrated.~
3666 3,2 | penitential character of the weekend services. Sunday Nocturns
3667 2,2 | where, in ancient times, the Weepers (Penitents forbidden to
3668 9,8 | expressive. Every word is weighed, and the author strives
3669 8,4 | and derided, spoke without weighing my words, ignorantly and
3670 3,0 | whole body, throwing the weight forwards onto the hands
3671 10,3 | is the longest and most weighty, theologically, thus giving
3672 4,1 | Whom they had come out to welcome. [We note here that in the
3673 1,4 | or chapel there, but he welcomed this as an opportunity to
3674 3,8 | both accepts the deeds, and welcomes the intention, and honors
3675 3,4 | mutual wish for spiritual well-being, “And with your spirit!” —
3676 9,3 | his efforts received the well-deserved title Golden-mouth. In his
3677 4,4 | The Christmas story is well-known from the witness of Holy
3678 4,1 | rich cloths, but with the well-worn robes of the disciples.
3679 6,1 | truth of the living water, welling up to eternal life (John
3680 1,6 | St. Polycarp, and, as a Westerner, he succeeded St. Photinus
3681 7,2 | into the water, but floated westward in an upright position.
3682 3,8 | and praises the offering.~Wherefore, enter all of you into the
3683 | wherever
3684 11,1 | as on the water itself wherewith they are regenerated, or
3685 1,1 | manifested Himself to him, is whole-hearted in his belief (John 20:24-
3686 9,8 | they have been accepted wholeheartedly by the Christian Church
3687 10,1 | community is restored to wholeness and is reconciled to Him.~ ~
3688 9,2 | Holy Fathers teach us, “whosoever does not avow himself a
3689 9,8 | often to be found in the wickedness and greed of evildoers.
3690 5,1 | with the Outer Riasa (a wide-sleeved outer robe) and Kamilavka (
3691 10,1 | preach to all the nations the wideness of God's mercy and His forgiveness.
3692 3,2 | light in the soul grows and widens; and the Christian can no
3693 8,5 | although a celibate or widower may be consecrated Bishop
3694 1,4 | difficult travel across the wilds of Siberia and the Bering
3695 3,6 | cycle of the Prodigal son — willful departure from God's house,
3696 5,1 | Then, in order to test his willingness, the Abbot hands the scissors,
3697 4,1 | branches from the pussy willow are used instead of palm
3698 1,4 | natures, he also has two wills — human and divine.~ ~Nicea
3699 2,4 | linen, representing the winding-sheet in which the Body of the
3700 8,4 | varied and diverse foods and wines; because of intemperance
3701 9,1 | Chrysostom, charity is the wing of prayer. As the Holy Fathers
3702 1,5 | U.S.A., is headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and is
3703 7,1 | for water and a towel. He wiped His face, rubbing with the
3704 1,2 | the Church in Jerusalem wisely (for which reason he is
3705 5 | strengthened, encouraged and wiser, better-equipped to continue
3706 1,0 | died in 1700 and Peter, wishing no more Nikons, refused
3707 3,4 | make me worthy to partake wit/tout condemnation of Thy
3708 5 | was given permission to withdraw into the forest outside
3709 5 | warmth to the world. By withdrawing from the world, a Monk does
3710 9,8 | reasons for the victims' woeful plight are often to be found
3711 Intro | there are without, how many wolves within” [Homilies on John,
3712 10,1 | her loyalty and kindliness won her the love of Boaz (Ch.
3713 9,8 | Psalmist is filled with wonder at God's numerous works
3714 4,4 | Child; and all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told
3715 4,3 | prophesy. And I will show wonders in the heaven above and
3716 3,7 | inflections and nuances of word-groupings. From Hebrew and Hellenic
3717 9,5 | St. Matthew's Gospel is worded thus:~ ~Our Father, Who
3718 1,5 | Church. Whereas the original wording of the Creed ran, “and in
3719 5,1 | because Monks renounce all wordly things, do not marry, do
3720 1,3 | Orthodoxy.~The Church, however, worked hard to further the work
3721 10,3 | Titus, one of his fellow workers. Not able to wait for Titus'
3722 9,3 | sitting and working in a workshop, one can dedicate his spirit
3723 9,3 | ease and there are fewer worries.” These prayers can be short
3724 4,4 | and the last fraud will be worse than the first.” Pilate
3725 9,8 | the Psalms extend to every worshiper and the Psalms help one
3726 6,1 | God, He said that the true worshipers will worship the Father
3727 5,1 | order to acquit himself worthily in the angelic state, so
3728 8,4 | immeasurable and profound worthlessness? How can I reveal and expose
3729 8,3 | his destructive deeds are wrecked by your single-hearted faith” [
3730 3,2 | character and refer to the wretched condition of the human race
3731 6,2 | over his soul, and they wring an involuntary cry of grief
3732 1,2 | instep, then one hand at the wrist. The blood poured out, but
3733 9,8 | Psalmist does not merely write what he has heard from his
3734 1,8 | To him is ascribed the writing-down of the beautiful Gregorian
3735 10,3 | it does not rejoice at wrong; but rejoices in the right.
3736 1,1 | at Patras in Achaia on an X-shaped Cross (St. Andrew's Cross).
3737 3,3 | permitted.~ ~The rule of xerophagy is relaxed on the following
3738 Intro | within” [Homilies on John, XIV, 12]. There may be members
3739 6,3 | Against the Heresies, III, xxii, 4],~As All-Holy and Most-Pure,
3740 1,2 | November 22, 1865, Simeon I. Yanovsky, Chief Manager of the Russian
3741 7,2 | Vsevolod of Chernigov (son of Yaroslav the Wise), blessed her on
3742 9,3 | talk a lot, neither does he yawn or grow weak in prayer as
3743 8,4 | flesh!~How often have I yearned for power and been gluttonous,
3744 8,4 | vain thoughts, desires and yearnings!~And how many times have
3745 6,2 | life come moments when man yearns for spiritual food.~The
3746 3,1 | again with a loud voice and yielded up His spirit (Matt. 27:
3747 10,3 | Golden, Rule~(Luke 6:31)~As yon wish that men would do to
3748 1,5 | Romanian council meeting in Youngstown, Ohio, voted to establish
3749 7,2 | Bogoliubsky, the son of Yuri Dolgoruky, brought the Icon
3750 3,8 | sections called pericopes (or zachalo in Russian). This book normally
3751 1,4 | ended, with Bishop Nestor (Zakkis) being appointed Bishop
3752 1,1 | Simeon Zealotes (or the Zealot; sometimes the Canaanite),
3753 11,1 | on his clothing and St. Zeno, Bishop of Verona, had a
3754 2,5 | Preparation — in Russian, Zhertvinnik) is placed the Table of
3755 1,4 | In 1891, Bishop Nicholas (Ziorov) arrived in America and
3756 2,7 | Priest also wears a Belt (Zone) around his Cassock and
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