As we are prone to sickness,we ought to pray for one another’s quick recovery; it doesn’t mean that we have to make any prayers only on anyone’s birthday that is in contravention against the doctrine and teaching of the Orthodox faith, the reason for not celebrating the birthdays till about 3 decades back. Our duty [...]
Archbishop Lazar Puhalo(Orthodox Church in America)
(Discussions for Young Adults) OUTLINE
ONE: LOVE WITHOUT COMMITMENT IS A LIE
TWO: THE MEANING OF MARRIAGE
THREE: LOVE: AN EVER EXPANDING CIRCLE
FOUR: STRESS POINTS IN MARRIAGE ONE LOVE WITHOUT COMMITMENT IS A LIE
“Though I speak [...]
Archbishop Lazar Puhalo (Orthodox Church in America)
Preface
I. The Fundamental Revelation of Human Gender and Marriage
II. The Covenant as a Marital Relationship
III. The Revelation Unfolded Through The Great Women Prophets
IV. The Implications of Gender Roles As [...]
A long-standing land dispute between the Syrian Orthodox community in south-east Turkey and the local villagers has finally turned into a legal battle attracting international attention. The disagreement has been closely monitored by the European Union for some time, and US President Barack Obama and the State Department are monitoring the dispute.
In a remote village [...]
On this day, of the year 307 A.D., the great among the martyrs St. George, was martyred. He was born in Cappadocia; his father’s name was Anastasius, and his mother’s name was Theobaste. When he was twenty years old, his father died, and he went to Emperor Diocletian to take over his father’s position. He [...]
In the everlasting perpetuity of Lucifer’s glory when timelessness was the uncrowned monarch of Eternity, all legions of angels who are men used to worship, praise and glorify the God of hosts. All the angels who are male worship a God who is male in essence. The rebelled Lucifer’s legion was evicted from their solace, [...]
This article was originally published in Russian on this site on Holy Saturday 2008, the day before Pascha [Easter].
Last year [2007] in the Russian-language Internet, a whole campaign was conducted to discredit the miracle of the Holy Fire. On the eve of Pascha, a certain young man, a member of the Atheist Society of Moscow, [...]
His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr, Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr:
“The tradition of high officials to scurry from one church to another is a vestige of the post-soviet era.”
How close to the Church our political leaders actually are, why the divine services are not conducted in Ukrainian, the opposition [...]
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