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Month August 2020
A Blessed Fast of the Dormition to All
The Dormition of the Theotokos is the Pascha of the summer. And like the Great Pascha, it is preceded by a fast. This fast is also similar in its severity to that of Great Lent that precedes Pascha.
“What Good is the Rest of the Body When the Head is Corrupted?”
From the 1838 Encyclical “Against the Latin Innovations” of the Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople An often-heard argument in “Orthodox” circles concerning heresies such as ecumenism is “It’s not our concern what the patriarchs and hierarchs are doing. We…
Hieromartyr Benjamin Metropolitan of Petrograd – July 31
HOLY HIEROMARTYR BENJAMIN OF PETROGRAD AND THOSE WITH HIM Commemorated July 31/August 14 source: orthochristian.com Today the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the memory of one of the early stars in the pleiades of new martyrs and confessors of the Communist…
In Inaccessible Places
Source: catacombhistory.blogspot.com In 1951 V.K. wrote: “In the inaccessible parts of the Caucasus ridge, in a huge basin protected on allsides by a wall of mountains, the tops of which were covered with snow for ten months of the year,…
Walking Outside of the Boat
Sermon by Archbishop Andrew (Rymarenko) Sunday’s Gospel reading told us of a great miracle: the feeding of an enormous crowd of many thousands with five loaves and two fish. The disciples of Christ themselves, through whose hands this miracle was…
5 Questions to Prove that You Might Not Understand the Church in the Same Way as St. Gregory the Theologian
From the “Epistle of St. Gregory the Theologian to the One-Hundred and Fifty Bishops”. Would you prefer all the Canaanites or one Abraham? Would you prefer all the inhabitants of Sodom or one Righteous Lot? Would you prefer the Midianites…
Eighth Sunday: Feeding the Five Thousand.
by Archbishop Andrey (Rymarenko) “Give ye them to eat!” said Christ to His disciples. And He said this to them as if answering their advice: “This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away,…
THE LIFE OF HOLY SYMEON THE FOOL FOR CHRIST by Leontius of Neapolis
Krueger, Derek. Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontius’s Life and the Late Antique City. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996 1996. [121] The Life and Conduct[1] of Abba Symeon Called the Fool for the Sake of Christ Written by Leontius, Most Pious Bishop of…