tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-252708882011-04-21T19:14:49.372-05:00“Now, therefore,” says the Lord, “ Turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.” (Joel 2) "The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light." (Romans 13)Nea Romaiosynihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01776352307476882518noreply@blogger.comBlogger751100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25270888.post-34700851935205052582007-08-19T22:23:00.000-05:002008-12-08T19:55:28.891-06:00

By Alexia Ioannides“When You said, “Seek My face,” My heart said to You, “Your face, LORD, I will seek.” (Psalm 27:8) The Book of Psalms is quite possibly the most widely examined and cherished book contained in Holy Scripture, mainly because it accurately portrays the extensive range of human emotion, desire, and experience. The author responsible for composing the majority of its literature is

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Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos[An excerpt from "A Night in the Desert of the Holy Mountain"] – I will mention to you some of the fruits of the Jesus prayer, since I can see you are very eager to learn. In the beginning the Jesus prayer is the bread which sustains the athlete, then it becomes oil which sweetens the heart and, in the end, it becomes wine which intoxicates man, that is, which

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By Leonidas Pittos[This is excerpted from a larger unpublished study on Hesychast hermeneutics] The permeable boundaries between a Byzantine worshiper’s visual and hymnographic experiences of an icon allow for us to explore the interpretation of hymnography as a means of considering Hesychast interpretation of the Orthodox liturgical experience. It is significant that in every case in which he

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Psalm 89I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.And

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Orion1The world reconciled itself to bitternessShooting-star lies left the lipsNight freedFrom noise and careIs transformed in usAnd its new silence shines with revelationWe find our head in God's hands.2A prayer transfigures its heightsTime changes courseAnd leads us tripped of earthly concernTo other meaningsWhere is the pulse of earthThe blood in the memory of our facesThe selfsame journey?

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By Alexia Ioannides“Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” – The Apostle Paul (Ephesians 5:14) Those who are acquainted with the popular music of this generation are most likely familiar with the trendy rock band, Evanescence, and their awfully dark, but candid hit song, Bring Me to Life. The lyrics tell the story of one woman’s inner diary; her thoughts, feelings,

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By Fr. John RomanidesThat Christ came with the Holy Spirit and the Father after His resurrection, ascension, and return to dwell in the faithful is a fundamental presupposition of both St. Paul and St. John. Given St. Luke's relation to Paul, the event of Pentecost recorded by Luke most probably has a Pauline ecclesiological background. However, in an important respect, i.e. in regard to speaking

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Beloved brethren and dearly beloved children in Christ,Let us celebrate the Holy and Glorious Resurrection of Christ in fervent faith and warm yearning, glorifying His infinite goodness and mercy on account of which He became a man in order to redeem mankind. The love of God toward mankind is indeed ineffable and unique, as He Himself characterizes it: “Greater love hath no man than this, that a

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The woman has fallen into many sins, o Lord, yet when she perceived your divinity, she joined the ranks of the Myrrh-bearing women. In tears she brought you myrrh before your burial. She cried: woe is me! For I live in the night of licentiousness, shrouded in the dark and moonless love of sin. But accept the fountain of my tears, as you gathered the waters of the sea into clouds, bow down your

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To Thee, the Champion Leader, we Thy servants dedicate a feast of victory and of thanksgiving as ones rescued out of sufferings, O Theotokos: but as Thou art one with might which is invincible, from all dangers that can be do Thou deliver us, that we may cry to Thee: Rejoice, O Unwedded Bride! Oikos 1An archangel was sent from Heaven to say to the Theotokos: Rejoice! And beholding Thee, O Lord,

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By Alexia Ioannides“Whatever kind of wife you marry, you will never take a bride like Christ did when He married the Church; you will never marry anyone estranged from you as the Church was from Christ. Despite all this, He did not abhor or hate her for her extraordinary corruption. Do you want her corruption described? Paul says, “For once you were in darkness”. Do you see how black she was?

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The first two years in his monastic habit, St Gregory Palamas spent with fasting, vigil, concentration of the mind and unceasing prayer. In his prayers he always evoke as intercessor the Mother of God and in every occasion he would ask for Her help. Once, when he was still and wholly surrendered to the thought of God, he saw in front of him a very venerable elder (St. John the Theologian).

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0 Lord, Almighty, the God of our Fathers, of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and of their righteous seed; who created the heaven and the earth with all their adornment; who bound the sea by the word of your command; who shut up the abyss and scaled it;with your awesome and glorious name; whom all things dread and before whose power they tremble, because the majesty of your glory is unbearable and the

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By Metropolitan Hierotheos VlachosAnyone who reads the “Synodikon of Orthodoxy” will discover at once that, on the one hand, the heretics are anathematised and on the other hand the holy Fathers and confessors are acclaimed. For the former those present proclaim “anathema” three times, for the latter the people proclaim “eternal memory” three times at each proposal.Some people are scandalised

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One of the characteristic services of the Great Lent is the Great Compline. The Great Compline is made up of ten of readings from the Psalms interspersed with chants, troparia, and prayers from saints of Church and the Old Testament followed by the lesser Doxology. The most characteristic chant is "God is with us" or Μεθ᾽ ἡμῶν ὁ Θεός which comes from Isaiah 9. God is with us, know it you nations

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THE LENTEN HYMNS TO THE TRINITYIn the likeness of the bodiless powers, let us rise frommaterial images to spiritual and immaterial realities; throughour Trinity Hymns, let us be ready to receive theenlightenment that comes from the All-holy Trinity and let uscry out like the cherubim:HOLY, HOLY, HOLY ARE YOU, O GOD! Monday: THROUGH THE PRAYERS OF ALL YOUR ANGELS, HAVE MERCY

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By Leonidas PittosIt is useful to begin a discussion of liberty with a brief survey of the vocabulary of liberty and freedom in the founding languages of the Western Tradition: Greek and Latin. In Greek, to trace the terminology of freedom one must begin with the word eleuthería, or liberty, and the verb eleutheróō, or to release from debt, blame, or negative circumstances. An early use of the

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The following story is found in the writings of St. Neilos the Asceticand in the writings attributed to St. Dionysios the Areopagite, fromwhich comes the text that follows.LETTER 8, SECTION 6. To Demophilus, Therapeutes. About minding ones own business, and kindness.When I was once in Crete, the holy Carpus entertained me,-a man, of all others, most fitted, on account of great purity of mind, for

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By Alexia IoannidesContributing Writer“What our present generation wants, especially in our country, is a true theological revival — a revival of a living theology, which would unlock for us that Truth which one can find in the Scriptures, in the Tradition, and in the Liturgical life of the Church, but which is sealed away from us by our ignorance and neglect. We need today more than ever before,

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Brethren and children in the Lord.The unspeakable love of God together with His infinite mercy has made us worthy once again to become partakers of heavenly joy upon the great and world-saving feast of Christ’s Nativity.The announcement of great joy from heaven “…unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord”[1] echoes throughout the ages and once again this

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Αγίου Νικοδήμου του ΑγιορείτουΜὲ κάθε δίκαιο χαιρόταν καὶ χαιρόταν καὶ μὲ τὸ παραπάνω ἡ Ἁγία Τριάδα πρὶν ἀπὸ τὴν δημιουργία τοῦ κόσμου, γνωρίζοντας ἐκ τῶν προτέρων, σύμφωνα μὲ τὴν θεαρχική της ἰδέα, τὴν ἀειπάρθενο Μαριάμ. Γιατὶ εἶναι γνώμη μερικῶν θεολόγων, ὅτι ἂν ὑποθέσουμε ὅτι ὅλα τὰ ἐννέα τάγματα τῶν Ἀγγέλων γκρεμίζονταν ἀπὸ τοὺς οὐρανοὺς καὶ γίνονταν δαίμονες, ἂν ὅλοι οἱ ἄνθρωποι, ἀπὸ τότε

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Today the Virgin gives birth to the Transcendent One,And the earth offers a cave to the Unapproachable One!Angels with shepherds glorify Him!The wise men journey with a star!Since for our sake the Pre-eternal God was born as a Little Child!Kontakion of the Nativity

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του Σεβ. Ιεροθέου ΒλάχουΟ άγιος Νικόδημος ο αγιορείτης, αναλύοντας την πατερική διδασκαλία και στο συγκεκριμένο σημείο [του απροϋπόθετου της Θείας Ενανθρωπήσεως], καταλήγει στο συμπέρασμα ότι η ενανθρώπηση του Υιού και Λόγου του Θεού δεν ήταν συνέπεια της πτώσεως του ανθρώπου, αλλά ο αρχικός σκοπός της δημιουργίας του (απροϋπόθετος), γιατί δι’ αυτού του τρόπου έπρεπε και μπορούσε να φθάση στην

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[An excerpt from the “Song of Thekla”, in the “Symposium” by St. Methodios of Patara]Thekla Singing Decorously a Hymn, the Rest of the Virgins Sing with Her; John the Baptist a Martyr to Chastity; The Church the Spouse of God, Pure and Virgin.Theopatra said that Arete having said these things, commanded them all to rise, and, standing under the Agnos, to send up to the Lord in a becoming manner a

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[Excerpted from "St. Gregory Palamas as a Hagiorite" by Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos] According to the tradition of the Church, the Theotokos spent three years in the Temple and only she entered the holy of holies, just as once a year the High Priest did, and there she stayed until the year of her betrothal to Joseph.St. Gregory Palamas devoted two sermons to the feast of the Entry, in which

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Fourth ToneO Lord Jesus, unto Thee Thy lamb doth cry with a great voice:O my Bridegroom, Thee I love;and seeking Thee, I now contest,and with Thy baptism am crucified and buried.I suffer for Thy sake, that I may reign with Thee;For Thy sake I die, that I may live in Thee:accept me offered out of longingto Thee as a spotless sacrificeLord save our souls through her intercessions,since Thou art the

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The Holy Great Martyr Catherine was the daughter of Constus, the governor of Alexandrian Egypt during the reign of the emperor Maximian (305-313). Living in the capital, the center of Hellenistic knowledge, and possessed of a rare beauty and intellect, Catherine received an excellent education, studying the works of the greatest philosophers and teachers of antiquity. Young men from the most

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O Lord, Thou hast given us Thy Cross as a weapon against the devil; / for he quails and trembles, unable to contemplate Thy power; / for Thou didst raise the dead and abolish death: / Wherefore we worship Thy Burial and Thy Rising.[From the Ochtoechos]"O death, where is thy sting? O hades, where is thy victory?"Christ is risen, and you are overthrown!Christ is risen, and the demons are fallen!

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From the "Philokalia""We ought all of us always to give thanks to God for both the universal and the particular gifts of the soul and body that he bestows on us. The universal gifts consist of the elements of the world and all that comes to being through them, as well as all the marvelous works of God mentioned in the divine Scriptures. The particular gifts consist of all that God has given each

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The reciting of the Jesus prayer vocally. We repeat the Jesus prayer with our lips while trying at the same time to focus our attention on the words of the prayer. The nous takes the Jesus prayer and says it noetically. Our whole attention is centred again in the words, but is concentrated on the nous. After the nous has rested, we start again to concentrate our attention there. St. Neilos

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What Hesychast prayer actually signified to Maximos is revealed most fully in the long conversation between him and Gregory the Sinaite ... Gregory, so we are told, having learnt about Maximos' fame and wishing to meet him, sent his disciples to seek out the hermit. But Maximos was still in his nomadic phase; he had recently burnt his cell, and no one knew where he had gone. The disciples

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God’s all-saving will consists in doing good solely to acquire the Holy Spirit, as an eternal, inexhaustible treasure which cannot be rightly valued…This is the oil in the lamps of the wise virgins which could burn long and brightly, and these virgins with their burning lamps were able to meet the Bridegroom Who came at midnight, and could enter the bridechamber of joy with Him. But the foolish

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At the Detroit Youth Conference, the question of the place of the Greek language was posed for general debate and discussion. Some of the views expressed refocused the issue on three points:a) The problem of liturgical awareness: Ignorance of the structure and purpose of the services represents the true problem as language plays only a secondary role in liturgical experience. Experience of the

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The danger is that language should not be an end in itself. Often Greek Parishes resist the implementation of English in the services because they claim to understand the Greek better. Most Modern Greek speakers cannot understand Classical Greek and can barely make their way through New Testament Greek unless trained, particularly in aural interaction.For these Parishes, the insistence on Greek

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There are Greeks who wear their "Hellenicity" on their sleeve, yet they fail to act in a way that is true to the values of Hellenism. The ancient Romans called such Greeks "Graeculi', or "little Greeks". Such Greeks boast about the greatness of their ancestors, yet they do little to reflect their ancestry. Such Greeks also project an exclusive and particularistic view of their communities and

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"The whole mystery of the Christian faith is found in the Church; the whole mystery of the Church is in the God-Man; the whole mystery of the God-Man lies in the fact that that God became flesh and brought his entire Godhead, with all His divine values and perfection, with all the mysteries of God, into that flesh. The entire Gospel of the Theanthropos, the Lord Christ, is condensed into a few

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The angels attained victory over spiritual death and the passions by acquiring the immutability of the will, according to St. Gregory Palamas, when they witnessed the Incarnation of the Logos.

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'This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith' (I Jn. 5:4).Christ the Lord conquers the world, and that victory, my brethren, is ours also. The apostles conquered the world, and that victory is ours also. There is nothing of greater power in the world, my brethren, than the Christian faith. The swords that cut off this Faith are blunted and broken, but the Faith has remained;

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To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. A Song. 1 Let God arise, Let His enemies be scattered; Let those also who hate Him flee before Him. 2 As smoke is driven away, So drive them away; As wax melts before the fire, So let the wicked perish at the presence of God. 3 But let the righteous be glad; Let them rejoice before God; Yes, let

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"You have ascended on high, You have led captivity captive." (Ps. 67/68)

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I.METHODIUS, Bishop, to those who say: What doth it profit us that the Son of God was crucified upon earth, and made man? And wherefore did He endure to suffer in the manner of the cross, and not by some other punishment? And what was the advantage of the cross?Christ, the Son of God, by the command of the Father, became conversant with the visible creature, in order that, by overturning the

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"I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." Galatians 2 20-21"And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the

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If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. 5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth;

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NOTE TO THE READER: Throughout the Psalms of the Prophet-King David one finds a multi level "typology", where the speaker of the Psalm is a "typos" or image of, in one instance, the persecuted and suffering Christ and then the embattled human soul. The struggles and battles described in the Psalms are thus phrophetic images of the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ and then of the inner battles of

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Priest: And that he would count us worthy to listen to the holy Gospel, let us pray to the Lord God.Reader: Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.Priest: Wisdom. Stand upright. Let us listen to the holy Gospel. Peace to all.Reader: And to your spirit.Priest: The reading is from the holy Gospel according to Matthew.Reader: Glory to you, O Lord, glory to you![27:1-56]At that time,

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'The more rain falls on the earth, the softer it makes it; similarly, Christ's holy name gladdens the earth of our heart the more we call upon it.'—St. Hesychois the Priest, from the PhilokaliaTo cry out to God with adept longing is known to most Christians as the act of prayer: to bring before Him all one's sorrows, all one's joys, all one's thankfulness and all one's needs. We come to God in

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ΠρόσκλησηΈλα, το φώς το αληθινό,έλα, η αιώνια ζωή,έλα, το απόκρυφο μυστήριο,ο ανώνυμος θησαυρός,το ανεκφώνητο πράγμα,το ακατανόητο πρόσωπο,η παντοτινή αγαλλίαση, το ανέσπερο φως,έλα, η αληθινή προσδοκίααυτών που μέλλουν να σωθούν.Έλα, των πεσμένων η έγερση,έλα, των νεκρών η ανάσταση.Έλα, Δυνατέ, που δημιουργείς,μεταπλάθεις κι αλλοιώνεις τα πάνταμε μόνη τη θέλησή σου!Έλα, αόρατε, ανέγγιχτε κι

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The Reading is from the Prophecy of Isaias.[40:1 and selection]Thus says the Lord: Comfort, comfort my people, says God. Priests, speak to the heart of Jerusalem. Comfort her, because her humiliation has been completed; for her has sin has been abolished, because she has received from the Lord’s hand double for her sins. A voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make

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As forerunner of our Lord’s birth, preaching and death, the blessed John showed in his struggle a goodness worthy of the sight of heaven. In the words of Scripture: Though in the sight of men he suffered torments, his hope is full of immortality. We justly commemorate the day of his birth with a joyful celebration, a day which he himself made festive for us through his suffering and which he

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Η παρθενία και η σωφροσύνη συνιστούν την δευτέραν κυρίαν υπόσχεσιν του μοναχισμού. Η αντίληψις περί της παρθενίας, ως περί ζωής κατ' εικόνα της ζωής του Ιησού Χριστού, είναι παραδόξως τοσούτον ολίγον αποδεκτή υπό του συγχρόνου κόσμου, έτι δε και υπό των χριστιανών, ώστε καθίσταται απαραίτητον να εκθέσωμεν την δογματικήν βάσιν αυτής της υποσχέσεως.Η δισχιλιετής πείρα της Εκκλησίας μετ'

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Verse 1-3.-"Paul, an Apostle, (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead;) and all the brethren which are with me, unto the Churches of Galatia: Grace to you and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ."The exordium1 is full of a vehement and lofty spirit, and not the exordium only, but also, so to speak, the whole

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St. John Chrysostom on Romans 1: 1-2. "Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an Apostle, separated unto the Gospel of God, which He promised afore by His prophets in the Holy Scriptures." Moses having written five books, has nowhere put his own name to them, neither have they who after him put together the history of events after him, no nor yet has Matthew, nor John, nor Mark, nor Luke

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Doxasticon of the Ninth Hour of the Feast of Theophania on St. John

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[40:1-5.9, 41:17-18, 45:8, 48:20-21, 54:1]Thus says the Lord: Comfort, comfort my people, says God. Priests speak to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation has been completed; her sin has been abolished; for she has received from the Lord’s hand double her sins. The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley will be

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Inasmuch as many have taken in hand to set in order a narrative of those things which have been fulfilled among us, Just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us, It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write to you an orderly account, most excellent Theophilus, That you

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Homily on Ephesians bySt. John Chrysostom Chapter I. Verses 1-2.-"Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus. Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ."Observe, he applies the word "through" to the Father. But what then? Shall we say that He is inferior? Surely not. "To the saints,"

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St. John Chrysostom, in disucssing the difficulties of pastoring the members of the church, makes this observation on the qualifications of a priest. To meet all these difficulties, there is no help given but that of speech (logos), and if any be destitute of this power, the souls of those who are put under his charge (I mean of the weaker and more meddlesome kind) are no better off than ships

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The day of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul is the culminating feasts of the Gospel. Although the last event in the life of Christ which is related in the Gospel as His Ascension into heaven (Mark 16:19; Luke 24:51), the preaching of the Apostles is closely bound up with the Gospel. The Gospel tells us of their being chosen, and the Gospel indicates beforehand the end of Apostolic activity.

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The Procatechesis, or prologue to the catechetical orations of our holy father Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem. 1. Already there is an odour of blessedness upon you, O ye who are soon to be enlightened: already ye are gathering the spiritual flowers, to weave heavenly crowns: already the fragrance of the Holy Spirit has breathed upon you: already ye have gathered round the vestibule of the King's

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"It behooves us to learn the truth from those who possess that succession of the church which is from the apostles…they expound the Scriptures to us without danger."St. Irenaeus of Lyon (c. 180 AD)

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Book I, Chapter 10 Unity of the faith of the Church throughout the whole world 1. The Church, though dispersed through the whole world, even to the ends of the earth, has received from the apostles and their disciples this faith: [She believes] in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them; and in one Christ Jesus, the Son of God, who

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The resurrection of the Lord is the regeneration of human nature. It is the resuscitation and re-creation of the first Adam, whom sin led to death, and who because of death, again was made to retrace his steps on the earth from which he was made. The resurrection is the return to immortal life. Whereas no one saw that first man when he was created and given life—because no man existed yet at that

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(Excerpted from the book "Life After Death")Closely connected with the Second Coming of Christ is the resurrection of the dead, which is a very firm belief of the Church, and that is why in the Creed we confess: "I believe in the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come".When we speak of the resurrection of the dead, we mean the resurrection of their bodies, that indeed their

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Αναστάσεως Ημέρα:Demosthenes PaikopoulosDoxastikon of Pascha:Demetrios Magoures

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CANON FOR PASCHAA Composition by Monk John Ode 1. 1st Tone. Eirmos. The day of Resurrection, let us be radiant, O peoples! Pascha, the Lord’s Pascha; for Christ God has brought us from death to life, and from earth to heaven, as we sing the triumphal song. Troparia. Let us purify our senses, and in the unapproachable light of the resurrection we shall see Christ shining forth, and we

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If any man be devout and loveth God, Let him enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast! If any man be a wise servant, Let him rejoicing enter into the joy of his Lord. If any have laboured long in fasting, Let him how receive his recompense. If any have wrought from the first hour, Let him today receive his just reward. If any have come at the third hour, Let him with thankfulness

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Ιδιόμελο δοξαστικό των αποστίχων του όρθρου της Μ. Τετάρτης: Κύριε, η εν πολλαίς αμαρτίαις περιπεσούσα Γυνή, τήν σήν αισθομένη θεότητα, μυροφόρου αναλαβούσα τάξιν, οδυρομένη μύρα σοι, πρό τού ενταφιασμού κομίζει. Οίμοι! λέγουσα, οτι νύξ μοι, υπάρχει, οίστρος ακολασίας, ζοφώδης τε καί ασέληνος, έρως τής αμαρτίας. Δέξαι μου τάς πηγάς τών δακρύων, ο νεφέλαις διεξάγων

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(excerpted from "The Person in the Orthodox Tradition")It is being emphasised today that the person is linked with love and that only as person can man have true and real love. We read that "Personal distinctiveness is revealed and known only within the framework of direct personal relationship and communion, only by participation in the principle of personal immediacy, or of the loving and

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INDEED man's nature was created in the beginning for the new man, and mind and desire toward the new man were built. We were given thinking in order to know Christ; desire, in order to run to Him; memory, to remember Him, because even in the time of our creation, it was He that was our archetype. Because the old man was not the exemplar of

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[Excerpted and translated by Elpenor]FOR such a person--a person of true faith--will not worry at all anymore about anything whatever, knowing, that A horse is prepared for war but it is salvation that is from God , as Solomon says (Prov. 21.31). And by faith he dares anything without any doubt, as St. Isaak says: Aquire faith inside yourself to defeat your enemies. For he neither lives as

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An excerpt from the book "Orthodox Psychotherapy" Many people interpreting the character of Christianity see it as one of the numerous philosophies and religions known from antiquity. Certainly Christianity is not a philosophy in the sense that prevails today. Philosophy sets up a system of thought which in most cases bears no relationship to life. The main difference between Christianity and

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