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501 II, 7,5 | John, or some other. The Church as it were ahead of time 502 II, 7,5 | The attributes of the Church indicated in the Symbol 503 II, 7,5 | refer to the militant Church. However, they receive their 504 II, 7,5 | awareness~of the oneness of this Church with the Heavenly Church 505 II, 7,5 | Church with the Heavenly Church in the one Body of Christ: 506 II, 7,5 | one Body of Christ: the~Church is one, with a unity that 507 II, 7,5 | Orthodox teaching of the Church, which in itself is quite 508 II, 7,5 | comprise a single “invisible~Church,” inasmuch as each of them 509 II, 7,5 | by side with the Orthodox~Church there exists outside of 510 II, 7,5 | members of the Orthodox Church. Often we can observe in 511 II, 7,5 | Christian world outsidethe Church a religious fervor and faith, 512 II, 7,5 | relation~of all of them to the Church of Christ?~Of course, there 513 II, 7,5 | them as belonging to the Church. Already~the fact that one 514 II, 7,5 | Christian world outside the Church, namely the whole of Protestantism,~ 515 II, 7,5 | the bond with the heavenly Church, that is, the veneration 516 II, 7,5 | indirectly, with the Orthodox Church, with the Church in its 517 II, 7,5 | Orthodox Church, with the Church in its historical form;~ 518 II, 7,5 | rejected and condemned by the Church at her Ecumenical Councils.~ 519 II, 7,5 | either~with the Orthodox Church of Christ or between themselves. 520 II, 7,5 | refer only to the~Heavenly Church. The Church on earth, even 521 II, 7,5 | the~Heavenly Church. The Church on earth, even though it 522 II, 7,5 | perhaps even “adjoining” the Church, but sometimes~“against” 523 II, 7,5 | are all “outside” the one Church of Christ. Some of them 524 II, 7,5 | which is~present in the Church, and especially the grace 525 II, 7,5 | in the Mysteries of the Church~They are not nourished by 526 II, 7,5 | Christian~unity — unity in the Church — can be based only upon 527 II, 7,5 | differences~of mind. The Church is “the pillar and ground 528 II, 7,6 | The Church hierarchy~All the members 529 II, 7,6 | hierarchy~All the members of the Church of Christ comprise a single 530 II, 7,6 | own use, so also in the Church there exist~various ministries. 531 II, 7,6 | highest ministry in the Church as an organization is borne 532 II, 7,6 | 4:11-13).~No one in the Church can take upon himself the 533 II, 7,6 | existence of the earthly Church itself should come to an 534 II, 7,6 | highest ministry in~the Church by the Lord Himself . placed 535 II, 7,6 | ordained presbyters in each~Church (Acts 14:23). For the resolution 536 II, 7,6 | elders~(presbyters) of the Church, and let them pray over 537 II, 7,6 | presbyters perform~the Church’s sacred rites, and 2) in 538 II, 7,6 | rites, and 2) in the early Church there could be several presbyters 539 II, 7,6 | that they made up a special Church rank. They repeated in the 540 II, 7,6 | Miletus the~“presbyters of the Church” from Ephesus (Acts 20:17), 541 II, 7,6 | overseers), to feed the Church of God, which He hath purchased 542 II, 7,6 | that in~the first century church terminology was not yet 543 II, 7,6 | hierarchical degree in the Church is the deacons. Deacons, 544 II, 7,6 | bound up in the ancient Church, as it is now, with the 545 II, 7,6 | book of Acts.~In ancient Church literature, sometimes bishops 546 II, 7,6 | the hierarchy.~Thus the Church hierarchy is composed of 547 II, 7,6 | desire; they are given by the Church, and the appointment to 548 II, 7,6 | are indispensable for the Church. Even though a small~community 549 II, 7,6 | priests, etc.), still, in the Church as a whole, and even in 550 II, 7,6 | whole, and even in the local~Church, it is essential that there 551 II, 7,6 | testimony of the ancient Church concerning this. He writes, “ 552 II, 7,6 | drink, but servants of the Church of God.” “All of~you should 553 II, 7,6 | Without them there is no Church” (Ignatius the God-bearer, 554 II, 7,6 | thing is clear from ancient~church literature. The same St. 555 II, 7,6 | is, there is the catholic Church” (Epistle to the Smyrneans,~ 556 II, 7,6 | Without bishops there is no Church” (Tertullian,~“Against Marcian,” 557 II, 7,6 | equality remain forever in the Church~among the successors of 558 II, 7,6 | bishops.~The councils of the Church.~When among the Apostles 559 II, 7,6 | obligatory for the~whole Church (Acts 16:4). By this the 560 II, 7,6 | important questions in the Church for all times.~Thus the 561 II, 7,6 | organ of authority in the Church, and the highest authority 562 II, 7,6 | of bishops: for a local Church it is a council of its local 563 II, 7,6 | and for the Ecumenical~Church, a council of the bishops 564 II, 7,6 | the bishops of the whole Church.~The uninterruptedness of 565 II, 7,6 | the essential sides of the Church. And, on the contrary: the 566 II, 7,6 | an attribute of the true~Church, even if in it there is 567 II, 7,6 | understanding~was present to the Church from its beginning. From 568 II, 7,6 | its beginning. From the Church History of Eusebius of Caesarea~ 569 II, 7,6 | the bishops of the Roman Church almost to the end of the 570 II, 7,6 | precisely in this way.~The Church of Smyrna, for example, 571 II, 7,6 | appointed by John; the Roman~Church presents Clement, who was 572 II, 7,6 | The pastorship in the Church.~“Let a man so account of 573 II, 8,1 | The life of the Church in the Holy Spirit~The new 574 II, 8,1 | Spirit~The new life.~The Church is surrounded by the sinful, 575 II, 8,1 | the future member~of the Church with the life of “the world.” 576 II, 8,1 | However, in order to enter the Church one must depart~from the 577 II, 8,1 | moment of entrance into the Church has~been preceded by a special “ 578 II, 8,1 | him.~The whole life of the Church is penetrated by the mystical 579 II, 8,1 | Tone). Therefore, every Church prayer, whether public or 580 II, 8,1 | the Holy Spirit act in the Church.~In the Apostolic epistles, 581 II, 8,1 | grace.” Those who enter the Church have~entered into the Kingdom 582 II, 8,1 | are being~sent down to the Church of Christ for the sanctification 583 II, 8,1 | power of God which is in the Church of Christ, which gives birth, 584 II, 8,2 | Sacraments~The inward life of the Church is mystical (or sacramental). ( 585 II, 8,2 | the schism of the Roman Church, there is nothing wrong 586 II, 8,2 | with the history of the~Church, which shows us only the 587 II, 8,2 | the outward facts of the Church’s existence, and especially 588 II, 8,2 | world The inward life of the~Church is the mystical cooperation 589 II, 8,2 | Christ as the Head, with the Church as His Body, in the~Holy 590 II, 8,2 | concerning Christ and the Church, instructs the Apostle” ( 591 II, 8,2 | entirely natural that in~the Church’s life the series of special 592 II, 8,2 | historians that in the ancient Church the concept~of “mysteries” 593 II, 8,2 | supposedly never applied to the Church’s sacred rites.~The sacred 594 II, 8,2 | given to the members of the Church who~are sincere believers.~ 595 II, 8,2 | become established in the Church as referring to seven rites:~ 596 II, 8,2 | diseases.”~For the life of the Church itself as a whole, both 597 II, 8,2 | persons to the service of the Church in the degrees of the hierarchy, 598 II, 8,2 | indispensable structure of the Church; and together with these, 599 II, 8,2 | increase of the numbers of the Church. But the other Mysteries 600 II, 8,2 | life and sanctity of the Church itself.~One must distinguish 601 II, 8,3 | of Mysteries of the Holy Church stands the Mystery of Baptism.~ 602 II, 8,3 | Kingdom of grace, or the Church, and it grants access~to 603 II, 8,3 | with Him. “Christ~loved the Church, and gave Himself for at 604 II, 8,3 | time one is joined to the Church.~The means of the performance 605 II, 8,3 | 38). As an exception, the Church acknowledges the Christian 606 II, 8,3 | Baptism by sprinkling the Church acknowledges but does not 607 II, 8,3 | performed~in the ancient Church. The Epistle of the Apostle 608 II, 8,3 | the Body of Christ or the Church, an inheritor of~eternal 609 II, 8,3 | this. The Fathers of the Church in their instructions to 610 II, 8,3 | highly~respected by the Church: “It was pleasing to our 611 II, 8,3 | from the ancient Christian Church~From it we see what responsibility 612 II, 8,3 | Baptism in the Orthodox Church, as a spiritual birth, if 613 II, 8,3 | the~whole teaching of the Church, Baptism is not only a symbol 614 II, 8,3 | grace-given life of the Church. The~Holy Church opens up 615 II, 8,3 | of the Church. The~Holy Church opens up further grace-given 616 II, 8,4 | together with it a single church rite. The performer of the 617 II, 8,4 | those who are united to the Church~from heretical communities 618 II, 8,4 | their being united to the Church. The words~by which the 619 II, 8,4 | act of being united to the Church, the confirmation or~seal 620 II, 8,4 | Those baptized in the Church are sealed by the seal of 621 II, 8,4 | In~other Fathers of the Church also, Chrismation is called 622 II, 8,4 | were given in the earliest Church through the laying~on of 623 II, 8,4 | The Holy Fathers of the Church place the very word “Christian” 624 II, 8,4 | baptized~persons to the Church. In view of the facts that 625 II, 8,4 | throughout~the course of Church history, there were heretical 626 II, 8,4 | overseers of the members~of the Church, whereas even the performance 627 II, 8,4 | according~to the decree of the Church, must be sanctified by a 628 II, 8,4 | of other bishops of the Church (The Patriarch or chief 629 II, 8,4 | for the whole of his local Church.).~In the West, the separation 630 II, 8,4 | present time in the Roman church the anointment (which is 631 II, 8,4 | whereas in the Orthodox Church the anointment with~myrrh 632 II, 8,4 | It is given in the Roman church to those who have become 633 II, 8,4 | the sanctification of a Church there is performed the signing 634 II, 8,4 | likewise of the walls of the church. As a special rite, the 635 II, 8,5 | Eucharist was received by the Church from the first days as the 636 II, 8,5 | in Apostolic times in the~Church of Christ, we may read in 637 II, 8,5 | God-bearer, and other ancient~church writers such as St. Justin 638 II, 8,5 | man. This faith the holy Church expresses in~the words of 639 II, 8,5 | Therefore the Orthodox~Church from antiquity has had the 640 II, 8,5 | known that~in the ancient Church there existed the custom 641 II, 8,5 | Communion of the Holy Gifts in Church, for example~to confessors, 642 II, 8,5 | mystical branches the whole Church of~God, and to the end of 643 II, 8,5 | all Christians present in church in these holy moments, glorifying 644 II, 8,5 | sacrifice for all members of the Church. Giving to~His disciples 645 II, 8,5 | living and the~dead-the whole Church of Christ.~The Eucharist 646 II, 8,5 | practice~of the ancient Church, one must make the following 647 II, 8,5 | not observed in the Latin church, where~laymen are deprived 648 II, 8,5 | Apostle. In the ancient~Church every community partook 649 II, 8,5 | also violated by the Latin church in the second millenium.).~ 650 II, 8,5 | entirely foreign. In the Church of the first Christians 651 II, 8,5 | without any doubt, brought to church from their homes the usual, 652 II, 8,6 | intermediary~of a pastor of the Church, in accordance with the 653 II, 8,6 | one’s living bond with the Church and with the Lord God is 654 II, 8,6 | sins before~a pastor of the Church by the person coming to 655 II, 8,6 | If he neglect to hear the Church, let~him be unto thee as 656 II, 8,6 | authority of the pastors of~the Church to loose and bind, says: “ 657 II, 8,6 | Unto the angel of the Church of Ephesus write… I will 658 II, 8,6 | 2:6) which, according~to Church canons, the priest as a 659 II, 8,6 | practice of the ancient church was~excommunication from 660 II, 8,6 | lesser period.~In the ancient Church there existed a rite of 661 II, 8,6 | out their hands off the church porch, with~weeping would 662 II, 8,6 | beg those who entered the church to pray for them. b) The “ 663 II, 8,6 | be in the narthex of the church all the way to the end of 664 II, 8,6 | prostrators,” who entered the church itself but also did not 665 II, 8,6 | excommunicated from the Church and from contact with the 666 II, 8,6 | again to be received into~Church communion (2 Cor. 2:6-8).~ 667 II, 8,6 | Paul VI in 1975); c) the Church, that is, its head, the 668 II, 8,6 | teachers of the ancient Church, penances were called “satisfactions,”~ 669 II, 8,7 | pastoral ministry in the Church we have spoken already in 670 II, 8,7 | already in the section on the~Church hierarchy (ch. 7). It was 671 II, 8,7 | hierarchy was established in the Church bythe Lord Jesus Christ 672 II, 8,7 | that it has been with the Church from its very beginning, 673 II, 8,7 | hierarchical ministry in the Church, especially that of bishop 674 II, 8,7 | Cheirotonia in the Ancient Church.~According to the expression 675 II, 8,7 | to place deacons in the Church in order to serve tables — 676 II, 8,7 | were ordained in the early Church. Speaking of~how the apostles 677 II, 8,7 | elders (presbyters) in every church, and had prayed with fasting, 678 II, 8,7 | presbyters were ordained for one church or another, and on the~other 679 II, 8,7 | with the presbyters of the Church of Ephesus he thus expresses 680 II, 8,7 | overseers (bishops), to feed the Church of the Lord and God, which 681 II, 8,7 | Timothy, who was bishop of the Church of Ephesus, the Apostle 682 II, 8,7 | house of God which is the church of the Living God” (1~Tim. 683 II, 8,7 | Ordination” in the Ancient Church.~What has been said brings 684 II, 8,7 | been in actual fact in the Church in later times.~Although 685 II, 8,7 | times.~Although in the early Church ordination to the rank of 686 II, 8,7 | with the agreement of the church community or the local church, 687 II, 8,7 | church community or the local church, this “ordination” itself~ 688 II, 8,7 | sense of the “eldest” in the Church, that is, bishops) who are 689 II, 8,7 | bishops) who are in the Church and who, as we have~indicated, 690 II, 8,7 | to a certain rank of the Church hierarchy and later~cooperates 691 II, 8,7 | priests and deacons, the Church regarded~that such a burden 692 II, 8,7 | ordination. In the Roman Church in the fourth to sixth centuries,~ 693 II, 8,7 | the constant belief of the Church, that cheirotonia from the~ 694 II, 8,7 | anything new into the ancient Church~teaching of the Divinity 695 II, 8,8 | Thus also in the militant Church of Christ it is a basic~ 696 II, 8,8 | it is a basic~unit of the Church body. Therefore the Christian 697 II, 8,8 | writings of the~Apostles a “church:” “Greet Priscilla and Aquila, 698 II, 8,8 | Christ Jesus . . . and the church~that it in their house” ( 699 II, 8,8 | Salute Nymphas and the church which is in his house”~( 700 II, 8,8 | the point of view of the Church, so that the family might 701 II, 8,8 | purpose of being a small~“church.”~There is yet another way 702 II, 8,8 | social unit: monasticism.~The Church places it above married 703 II, 8,8 | actuality, in the history of the Church it~has been a leading, guiding 704 II, 8,8 | element, a support of the Church, bringing into realization 705 II, 8,8 | other foundations of the Church.~However, not all can take 706 II, 8,8 | the name of Christ and~the Church. Therefore, while blessing 707 II, 8,8 | perfect form of life, the Church~blesses also married life 708 II, 8,8 | Mystery of Marriage the Church invokes the help of God 709 II, 8,8 | namely: to be a “house~church,” to establish within the 710 II, 8,8 | mystical character of the Church with marriage in these~words: “ 711 II, 8,8 | as Christ also loved the Church, and gave Himself for~it; 712 II, 8,8 | concerning Christ~and the Church” (Eph. 5:25, 31-32). The 713 II, 8,8 | purpose of marriage, the Church forbids entering into marriage~ 714 II, 8,8 | 9 and 397). The Orthodox Church in modern times has not 715 II, 8,8 | present rule of the~Russian Church Outside of Russia, for example, 716 II, 8,8 | the formation of~a “house church” or to the preservation 717 II, 8,8 | indissolubility of marriage.~The Church only in exceptional circumstances 718 II, 8,8 | other, is allowed by the~Church, although in the prayers 719 II, 8,9 | elders (presbyters) of the Church, and let~them pray over 720 II, 8,9 | enter into the custom of the Church: the performance~of it by 721 II, 8,9 | by the presbyters of the Church, prayers, anointment; and 722 II, 8,9 | action may be either the church or the dwelling where the 723 II, 8,9 | faith on behalf of the whole Church entreats~Him, the Most Merciful 724 II, 8,9 | Unction, which is performed in church on~many persons at the same 725 II, 8,9 | not against allowing it in church practice. The Roman Church 726 II, 8,9 | church practice. The Roman Church up to now has given~Unction 727 II, 8,9 | teaching appeared in the Roman Church beginning in the 12th century 728 II, 8,9 | From ancient times in the Church, the dying were given, as 729 II, 9 | expression of the life of the Church~ 730 II, 9,1 | bond of the members of the Church.~Prayer is the manifestation 731 II, 9,1 | the manifestation of the Church’s life and the spiritual 732 II, 9,1 | called the atmosphere of the Church or the breathing of the 733 II, 9,1 | or the breathing of the Church. Prayers are the threads 734 II, 9,1 | the~living fabric of the Church body, and they go in all 735 II, 9,1 | penetrates the~whole body of the Church, leading each part of it 736 II, 9,1 | unites each member of the Church with the Heavenly Father, 737 II, 9,1 | the members of the earthly~Church with each other, and the 738 II, 9,1 | Prayer is a) the form of the~Church's life, b) an instrument 739 II, 9,1 | love between~members of the Church. Since, according to the 740 II, 9,1 | the earthly members of the Church not only pray for each other, 741 II, 9,2 | In God all are alive. Church life is penetrated by a 742 II, 9,2 | the part of the pilgrim Church (on earth) does~not cease. “ 743 II, 9,2 | instruction of the Apostle, the Church prays for all its children 744 II, 9,2 | those who are alive, the Church follows~the words of the 745 II, 9,2 | outside the communion of~the Church, are not even vouchsafed 746 II, 9,2 | purpose.~In the Old Testament Church also there existed the custom 747 II, 9,2 | hell~by the prayers of the Church and by power of the propitiatory 748 II, 9,2 | the dead.~In the Christian Church all the ancient liturgies, 749 II, 9,2 | and West, testify to the~church's remembrance in prayer 750 II, 9,2 | Fathers~and Teachers of the Church speaks of the same thing.~ 751 II, 9,2 | praying for the dead, the Church intercedes for them just 752 II, 9,3 | Communion with the Saints.~The church prays for all who have died 753 II, 9,3 | departs from this world, the~Church accompanies his departure 754 II, 9,3 | the common voice of the Church testifies to the righteousness 755 II, 9,3 | self-sacrificing service to~the Church, and the gift of healing, 756 II, 9,3 | remembered in prayer, then the Church glorifies~him in a special 757 II, 9,3 | special way. How can the Church not glorify those whom the 758 II, 9,3 | give way to other forms of Church communion with him, namely: 759 II, 9,3 | 1 John 1:3). And in the Church this fellowship with the~ 760 II, 9,3 | them of prayers~for the Church on earth are depicted in 761 II, 9,3 | on earth and the Heavenly Church of which the Apostle speaks: “ 762 II, 9,3 | general assembly and the Church of the firstborn, which 763 II, 9,3 | 1 Cor. 13:12).~The holy Church has always held the teaching 764 II, 9,3 | explaining theLiturgy of the Church of Jerusalem, remarks, “ 765 II, 9,3 | Fathers and teachers of the Church, especially from the~fourth 766 II, 9,3 | onwards, concerning the Church's veneration of the saints. 767 II, 9,5 | as exist in the Christian Church.~They were not there because 768 II, 9,5 | in the ancient Christian Church there~existed sacred images 769 II, 9,5 | tradition of the Orthodox~Church of both East and West in 770 II, 9,5 | centuries, and of the Eastern Church in later centuries, has 771 II, 9,6 | souls into heaven, the~holy Church at the same time honors 772 II, 9,6 | veneration~and honor.~The holy Church in all times, following 773 II, 9,6 | the constant rule~of the Church to place relics of holy 774 II, 9,6 | the whole course~of the Church's history.~Even in the Old 775 II, 9,6 | Fathers and teachers of the Church have testified before their 776 II, 9,6 | treasure left to the holy Church.” The residents of the cities, 777 II, 9,6 | intercession before God. The Church Councils many times (for 778 II, 9,6 | the bodies of~saints: in Church Slavonic this word signifies 779 II, 9,6 | reposed, we go out of~the Church,” etc. The ancient Slavonic 780 II, 9,7 | The path and power of the Church.~The dogmatic teaching of 781 II, 9,7 | dogmatic teaching of the Church has the most intimate connection 782 II, 9,7 | The whole history of the Church has been built on struggles: 783 II, 9,7 | labors of the pillars of the Church,~the hierarchs; and then 784 II, 9,7 | in Christ. And the~Holy Church supports in believers this 785 II, 9,7 | saints, by the rules of the Church typicon, by vigils, fasts, 786 II, 9,7 | separate Christian but of the Church herself as a whole: to be~ 787 II, 9,7 | Theologian in the Apocalypse. The Church in many periods of her history 788 II, 9,7 | contemporary~priest and Church writer has called “harvest 789 II, 9,7 | of the Christian and the~Church.~At the same time it is 790 II, 9,7 | is also the power of the Church. Looking with one’s mental 791 II, 9,7 | finally, is the banner of the Church. From the day when the Saviour 792 II, 9,7 | of Christianity, of the Church, of everyone who believes 793 II, 9,7 | understanding of the Fathers of the Church, will be a magnificent manifestation 794 II, 9,7 | bound up with the Cross, the Church hymns the~power of the Cross: “ 795 II, 0,2 | the Holy Fathers of the Church have interpreted this passage. “ 796 II, 0,2 | the Holy Fathers of the~Church have depicted the path of 797 II, 0,2 | the living members of the Church. Among the ancient Fathers 798 II, 0,2 | Particular Judgment, the Orthodox Church teaches~thus: “We believe 799 II, 0,2 | paragraph 18). Thus the Orthodox Church distinguishes~two different 800 II, 0,2 | paradise and hell. The Church does not recognize the Roman 801 II, 0,2 | gehenna” the Fathers of the Church usually refer to the condition 802 II, 0,2 | 15). The Fathers of the Church,~basing themselves on the 803 II, 0,2 | away by the~prayers of the Church (Epistle of the Eastern 804 Add, 0,3 | described by the Fathers of the Church and Christian ascetics. 805 Add, 0,3 | to a whole series of our Church beliefs has been observed; 806 Add, 0,3 | it is not a dogma of~the Church in the precise sense, but 807 Add, 0,3 | ourselves come closer to the Church, “that we might know~the 808 Add, 0,3 | foundation is: We believe in the Church. The Church is the heavenly 809 Add, 0,3 | believe in the Church. The Church is the heavenly and earthly~ 810 Add, 0,3 | its heavenly realm. The Church on earth glorifies God, 811 Add, 0,3 | communion between those in the Church on earth and the heavenly~ 812 Add, 0,3 | on earth and the heavenly~Church. In the Body of Christ all 813 Add, 0,3 | Lord, the Shepherd of the Church, there are, as it~were, 814 Add, 0,3 | Cor.~12:26). The heavenly Church rejoices, but at the same 815 Add, 0,3 | Theologian gave to the earthly Church of his time the name of “ 816 Add, 0,4 | Apostolic age. But when the Church, having received freedom, 817 Add, 0,4 | the Dead”).~The Orthodox Church depicts the Christian martyrs, 818 Add, 0,4 | kind in the Fathers of the Church which preceded him.~It is 819 Add, 0,4 | illuminate the essence of our Church life. Our Christian Church 820 Add, 0,4 | Church life. Our Christian Church life of prayer~is uninterrupted 821 Add, 0,4 | it the whole body of the Church, being united and strengthened 822 Add, 0,4 | Col. 2:19). Through the Church “we are come unto~the Heavenly 823 Add, 0,4 | solemn assembly and the church of the~first-born, which 824 Add, 0,4 | penetrates the whole body of the Church,~unites every member of 825 Add, 0,4 | unites every member of the Church with the Heavenly Father, 826 Add, 0,4 | the members of the earthly Church with themselves,~and the 827 Add, 0,4 | the members of the earthly Church with the Heavenly Church. 828 Add, 0,4 | Church with the Heavenly Church. Prayers are the threads 829 Add, 0,4 | the living fabric of the~Church body, for “the prayer of 830 Add, 0,4 | from evil actions. The same Church instills in~us that the 831 Add, 0,4 | infirmities. In the Heavenly Church are also our intercessors, 832 Add, 0,4 | is the whole cycle~of the Church's Divine services of every 833 Add, 0,4 | repentance. How insistently the Church teaches us (in its litanies)~ 834 Add, 0,4 | Priests).~Thus, the Holy Church through the ranks of its 835 Add, 0,4 | helpers. In the Typicon of the Church's Divine service, we are 836 Add, 0,4 | images of the Gospel the Church very often reminds us of 837 Add, 0,4 | week in the yearly cycle of Church services is entirely devoted 838 Add, 0,6 | the~Holy Fathers of the Church, will be the sign of the 839 Add, 0,7 | same aim the Fathers of the Church have indicated that in the 840 Add, 0,7 | Fathers and teachers~of the Church, do not enter immediately 841 Add, 0,7 | writers of the universal Church (for example Papias~of Hierapolis, 842 Add, 0,7 | kingdom of grace of the Church of Christ,~and in particular 843 Add, 0,7 | particular of the triumphant Church of heaven, until the end 844 Add, 0,7 | the end of the world. The Church~which is militant upon earth 845 Add, 0,7 | the grace of God in the Church will not be subjected to 846 Add, 0,7 | only~until the Ecumenical Church expressed its judgment about 847 Add, 0,7 | leading Fathers of the early~Church who combated the heresy 848 Add, 0,7 | the life of grace in the Church can well~understand what 849 Add, 0,7 | 40, On Holy Baptism).~The Church, basing itself on the word 850 Add, 0,7 | Grace, the existence of the Church on earth, the~militant Church; 851 Add, 0,7 | Church on earth, the~militant Church; it will enter into this 852 Add, 0,7 | merge with the heavenly~Church “Then cometh the end, when 853 Add, 0,7 | mankind to God through the Church. Then the Son will reign 854 Add, 0,7 | the Holy Fathers of the Church, will have its~degrees, 855 App, 1 | Can one accept, from the Church's point of view, the idea 856 App, 1 | theological thought is this: the Church's consciousness from the~ 857 App, 1 | Apostles down to the end of the Church's life, being guided by 858 App, 1 | Revelation are unchanging. The~Church's teaching of faith does 859 App, 1 | does not develop, and the Church's awareness of itself, with 860 App, 1 | the Apostles. Although the~Church is always guided by the 861 App, 1 | see in the history of the Church, and~we do not expect, new 862 App, 1 | defend the right of the Church to “develop” dogmas,~meaning 863 App, 1 | innovations made by the Roman Church in modern times, and thus 864 App, 1 | handed down by the ancient Church. In particular,~the Old 865 App, 1 | Orthodoxy with the Roman Church, desiring to justify the 866 App, 1 | development of the~Roman Church defended the idea of the 867 App, 1 | of the development of the Church's dogmatic consciousness.~ 868 App, 1 | sympathies~for the Roman church, but also by his own religious-philosophical 869 App, 1 | dogmatic teaching of the Church already~completed? Are we 870 App, 1 | and the Tradition~of the Church, with the decrees the Ecumenical 871 App, 1 | Pillar and Foundation~of the Church and other works) and Sergei 872 App, 1 | dogmatics?~The history of the Church shows that the quantity 873 App, 1 | dogma~in the history of the Church has broadened until it has 874 App, 1 | Councils. The work of the Church in this direction has consisted 875 App, 1 | finding their confirmation in Church Tradition, in declaring 876 App, 1 | faithful. In~this work of the Church the scope of dogmatic truths 877 App, 1 | opinions and teachings, the Church sanctions~some dogmatic 878 App, 1 | awareness of the people of the Church and in the Church hierarchy 879 App, 1 | of the Church and in the Church hierarchy itself.~Further, 880 App, 1 | of Biblical~philology, of Church history, of Patristic writings, 881 App, 1 | the spiritual life of the Church. It only studies the work 882 App, 1 | studies the work of the Church and~its dogmatic and other 883 App, 1 | perfect the teaching of the Church. (One may see an approximate 884 App, 1 | of spiritual life in the Church at one or another historical 885 App, 1 | not called to guide the Church in its entirety; it is proper 886 App, 1 | strictly to the guidance of the Church's consciousness.~It is given 887 App, 1 | the word of God and the church is a means to~this fundamental 888 App, 2 | centuries of Christianity the Church writers and Fathers of the 889 App, 2 | writers and Fathers of the Church responded~broadly to the 890 App, 2 | thought of the Fathers of the~Church in some few moments raised 891 App, 2 | the whole teaching of the~Church. “Go by the free way, wherever 892 App, 2 | favor of the other. The~Church consciousness welcomes sincere 893 App, 2 | Christian~world view; but the Church views them as private, personal 894 App, 3 | of faith confessed by the Church:~1. Christianity is presented 895 App, 3 | the~whole teaching of the Church — a teaching that understands 896 App, 3 | and the teaching of the~Church indicate the unacceptability 897 App, 4 | creation of the New~Testament Church. This prefiguration is to 898 App, 4 | the Holy Fathers of the~Church, and following them the 899 App, 5,1 | What, in essence, is the Church's formal glorification of 900 App, 5,1 | Holy, Catholic, Orthodox~Church the prayerful memory of 901 App, 5,1 | the narrow circle of the “Church of the home,” or, in general, 902 App, 5,1 | in their service to the Church, beacons~illumining the 903 App, 5,1 | known throughout the whole Church, local or universal. Confidence~ 904 App, 5,1 | profound certainty of the Church that a reposed righteous 905 App, 5,1 | the saints in the heavenly Church, she composes an act of “ 906 App, 5,1 | glorification.” By this the Church gives her blessing for the 907 App, 5,1 | The unanimous voice of the Church, expressed through the lips 908 App, 5,1 | glorification itself. Nothing in the Church should~be arbitrary, but “ 909 App, 5,1 | orderly.” The concern of the Church in regard to this is expressed 910 App, 5,1 | renowned throughout~the Church even during their earthly 911 App, 5,1 | themselves to be pillars~of the Church. An ecclesiastical resolution 912 App, 5,1 | domain, i.e., in the local Church which has made the resolution, 913 App, 5,1 | throughout~the universal Church.~The assembly of saints 914 App, 5,1 | of saints in the heavenly Church of all times is great and 915 App, 5,1 | eye's reach. Thus, in the Church's commemoration, saints 916 App, 5,1 | Saturday).~How has and does the Church's glorification of her great 917 App, 5,1 | of Saints in the Russian Church (2nd ed., Moscow: University 918 App, 5,1 | terminology of the Latin Church and is not employed by the 919 App, 5,1 | Roman confession. The Roman~Church's canonization, in its contemporary 920 App, 5,1 | saints, commanding the whole Church to honor his memory with 921 App, 5,2 | Witness of the Early Church.~In the first centuries 922 App, 5,2 | centuries of the Christian Church, three basic types of saints 923 App, 5,2 | hierarchs who served the Church, as well~as people acclaimed 924 App, 5,2 | as to which criteria the Church employed for recognition~ 925 App, 5,2 | monasticism, was~kept by the Church for their didactic gifts 926 App, 5,2 | miracle working].~The ancient Church's glorification of holy 927 App, 5,2 | annual commemoration the Church of Carthage celebrates.”~ 928 App, 5,2 | surmise that in the Greek Church~all Orthodox bishops who 929 App, 5,2 | solemnity. Sozomen, the church historian,~states that in 930 App, 5,2 | understood that in the ancient Church the latter events (if one~ 931 App, 5,2 | sanctuary of the largest church, that of the Apostles,~like 932 App, 5,2 | priesthood.~In the Greek Church, until the eleventh century, 933 App, 5,2 | venerated throughout the entire Church. The greater portion of 934 App, 5,2 | each individual diocese/~Church celebrated only its own 935 App, 5,2 | universally throughout the Church. With the eleventh century 936 App, 5,2 | blasphemous and contrary~to church order. A few parish priests 937 App, 5,2 | remote spot near the ancient church of St. Marina, where he 938 App, 5,2 | custom and procedures of the Church required definite confirmation~ 939 App, 5,2 | definite confirmation~by higher church authorities and a special 940 App, 5,2 | In the future the Greek Church was to know two classifications 941 App, 5,3 | Turkish rule, the Greek Church had no small number of martyrs 942 App, 5,3 | denouncing Islam. The~later Greek Church, and the universal Church 943 App, 5,3 | Church, and the universal Church with her, has regarded and 944 App, 5,3 | martyrs just as the ancient Church regarded the martyrs of 945 App, 5,3 | on the part of the Great Church of Constantinople, for such 946 App, 5,3 | the Saints in the Russian Church believes that generally 947 App, 5,3 | As before, in the Eastern Church the criterion that had to 948 App, 5,3 | veneration throughout the Church of Constantinople, the patriarch~ 949 App, 5,3 | the Saints in the Russian Church, one may form for oneself 950 App, 5,3 | the hierarch of~the holy Church who was before thee, that 951 App, 5,3 | of ritual and custom the Church of God holdeth to in such 952 App, 5,3 | act~in accordance with the Church's rite. Honor and bless 953 App, 5,3 | are~hastening to erect a church for him, for he is a glorious 954 App, 5,3 | universal practice of the Church, we do synodally resolve,~ 955 App, 5,3 | Cephalonia, but throughout the Church of the pious, from~one end 956 App, 5,3 | specially~prepared place in a church, the prayerful commemoration 957 App, 5,4 | ground began in the early Church times. As is known from~ 958 App, 5,4 | Luke and Timothy in the Church of the Holy Apostles,~in 959 App, 5,4 | glorification of saints, the Russian Church has followed the belief 960 App, 5,4 | after death. In the ancient Church, as has been stated, exalted 961 App, 5,4 | exalted service to the Church or a martyr's~end were in 962 App, 5,4 | such bases. In the Russian Church similar occasions of ecclesiastical~ 963 App, 5,4 | a monastery or a parish church (of which there are several 964 App, 5,4 | or general saints of the Church, whose celebration was begun 965 App, 5,4 | begun throughout~the Russian Church. The right of glorifying 966 App, 5,4 | the head of the Russian Church. The execution of the glorification~ 967 App, 5,4 | solemn divine service in the~church at which or within which 968 App, 5,4 | same manner in the Russian Church; for this reason there have 969 App, 5,4 | one was interred within a church, the reliquary was positioned 970 App, 5,4 | the life of the Russian~Church when services have been 971 App, 5,4 | without the blessing of~the Church.”~In essence there is no 972 App, 5,4 | celebrated by the whole Church and local~saints. Saints 973 App, 5,4 | entreaties for assistance. The Church calls both “saints.” In 974 App, 5,4 | saints.” In the Russian~Church, as among the Orthodox Churches 975 App, 5,4 | saints of the universal Church. One of the marks distinguishing 976 App, 5,4 | and~in the printed church books permission is required 977 App, 5,4 | the rest.”~In the Russian Church, the first to be numbered 978 App, 5,4 | celebrated by the whole Russian Church. The~Councils of 1547 and 979 App, 5,4 | fitting honor to the great Church of the Life-creating Trinity, 980 App, 5,4 | veneration of the whole~Church (they are presented in chronological 981 App, 5,4 | publications~of the Synod — The Church Register and the Diocesan 982 App, 5,5 | authority needed.~In the Russian Church, as in the Orthodox East, 983 App, 5,5 | and parishioners of the Church of the Resurrection in Totma ( 984 App, 5,5 | blessed the construction of a church dedicated to~St. Paraskeva 985 App, 5,5 | monument be constructed in that church and that molebens be chanted 986 App, 5,5 | the catholic and apostolic church of the Most Pure~Theotokos, 987 App, 5,5 | Cornelius, and at the cathedral church~of Sophia the Wisdom of 988 App, 5,5 | confession on the part of the Church~of a firm belief or certainty 989 App, 5,5 | solemnly revealing to the Church this gift of God, i.e., 990 App, 5,5 | of saints of the Russian Church, such as St. Theodosius 991 App, 5,6 | the~understanding of the Church and according to the principles 992 App, 5,6 | the same in the Orthodox Church. In these questions, the~ 993 App, 5,6 | followed the tradition of the Church~of the first millennium 994 App, 5,6 | ancient period. The Russian Church of the pre-Petrine era followed~ 995 App, 5,6 | followed~the path of the Greek Church; while the Russian Church 996 App, 5,6 | Church; while the Russian Church of the post-Petrine era 997 App, 5,6 | statement of faith by the Church that God Himself has united 998 App, 5,6 | is apparent to the whole Church, or upon the glorification 999 App, 5,6 | voice of the people of the Church, to whom the higher ecclesiastical 1000 App, 5,6 | and the~sanction of the Church.~The glorification of the