Do You Think St. Agapitus Pope of Rome’s Statement was Extreme?
"Let no one for favors or from fear lean away from the Ecclesiastical Canons"
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Category Wisdom from the Fathers
Taken Out to Graze in Other Pastures
Bishop Philaretos Depending on which local Church we are talking about, starting in about 1920 (here I choose to use the year that the infamous “Encyclical of 1920 of the Ecumenical Patriarchate” was written), the hierarchs who had the name…
Agreeing with the Holy Fathers or Not, According to Meletius Pigas Patriarch of Alexandria
Meletios Pigas was an amazing church personality of the 16th century. He was Patriarch of Alexandria (1590 – 1601) and was Locum Tenens of the Patriarchate of Constantinople for one year (April 1597 to April 1598). He was born to…
Sermon on the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos A.
by St. John of Damascus [147] THE memory of the just takes place with rejoicing, said Solomon, the wisest of men; for precious in God’s sight is the death of His saints, according to the royal* David. If, then, the memory…
St. John of Kronstadt Tells Us a Wonderful Thing About Our Health
“It is a wonderful thing that, no matter how much we trouble about our health, however much care we take of ourselves, whatever wholesome and pleasant food we eat, whatever wholesome drinks we drink, however much we walk in the…
On the Gospel of the Tenth Sunday According to St. Matthew
by St. Theophan the Recluse This kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.” [Matthew 17:14-23] If this kind goes out by the prayer and fasting of another person, then it is even less able to enter one who…
With Whom Will Archbishop Theophan of Poltava Be Left?
Thank you to Brother Michael Archbishop Theophan’s of Poltava meeting with a group of modernist clergy and liberal professors, who came to the Moscow All-Russian Church Council of 1917-1918, was a remarkable event. Vladika himself often liked to recall the…
Concerning that “church” Which Will Accept Legalization from the Antichrist
A video by Gregory Decapolite
CONCERNING FASTING
bySaint Ignatius Briantchaninov Reprinted from Orthodox Life -Vol.2 Number 2 – March/April 1951 The head or chief of the virtues is prayer; their foundation is fasting. Fasting is constant moderation in food with prudent discernment in its use. Proud man!…