Preachers institute Article
Our righteous father John of Kronstadt was an archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church. Born in 1829, from 1855, he served as a priest in St. Andrew’s cathedral in Kronstadt. Here, he greatly committed himself to charity, especially for those who were remote from the church, and traveled extensively throughout the Russian [...]
Part I
1. Introductory Remarks
Following the totally unexpected escalation in provocations from the Vatican, under BENEDICT XVI, towards other Christians (especially the Orthodox, as we shall see below!), it is as plain as the sun that we are unfortunately entering a period of complete uncertainty, to mention nothing of strange ‘obscurity’.
The medieval audacity of ‘Papism’, [...]
The northern province of Moldova — known as Bukovina — is an ethnological and religious enclave intended to symbolize Christianity’s triumph against the paganism.
Many of the Bukovina monasteries were built by the Moldavian voivodes as a token of gratitude to God after each victory in battles against the Turks. The unique beauty of their external [...]
27/1/2010
The unexpected election of moderate Bishop Irinej Gavrilovic of Nis as the new patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church does not mean the influence of more radical priests, like Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro, will subside. That’s according to Milorad Tomanic, a Belgrade-based expert on the Orthodox Church and author of a recently published book, “The [...]
It is a fact that Orthodoxy is identical in its faith-content and worship with the faith-content and worship of primitive Christianity.
Yet the extraordinary and absolutely genuine fact about it is that, while being essentially the continuation of the faith, worship, and spirituality of the undivided Church of the first centuries, Orthodoxy meets in a perfect [...]
Holy Poles who were martyred by the Papists
Holy Martyr Peter was born in 1891 in the village of Tarnavatka, in the county Tomasouf. After his general studies he studied at an Agricultural School, from where he graduated in 1908. During the 1st World War years he was working as a teacher.
In his thirties Peter [...]
By:
the Rev. Dr. George Dion. Dragas
INTRODUCTION
“God became man that we may become gods” (St. Athanasios).
The Incarnation of God is the foundation of the Christian faith. Christ is the Son and Logos (Word) of God who became man. He is not a man who became god, nor a man who stands in a unique and [...]
In a small village in Romania there were no priests, and the residents often went to the Patriarch and asked him to fill the vacancy. However, the Patriarch had no way to satisfy their request for a priest. The villagers went again and again, but the Patriarch’s reply remained the same. He said that he [...]
When Simon Thomas was an altar boy in Modesto two decades ago, he dreamed of becoming a doctor.
His triumphs on the dance floor and on Beyer High’s soccer field and his student honors status helped prepare him for pre-med classes at the University of California at Davis. But when he arrived, he felt a tug [...]
The May 2008 issue of Christianity Today features their Christian Vision Project, with prominent writers and thinkers responding to the question, “Is our Gospel too small?” Antiochian Archdiocese author Brad Nassif contributed this response.
By Bradley Nassif, Ph.D.
The last few decades, more and more evangelicals have been mining the treasures of Eastern Orthodoxy. One reason for [...]
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