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Born Again from the Water and the Spirit Fr. Cornel Todeasa 5 January 2017 I once met a “born again Christian” on a plane. He had never heard of the Orthodox Church and was curious. “What is an Orthodox Christian? Are you born again?” he asked. While many Christians inAmer...
Power of prayer Elder Tadej Vitovničk 4 January 2017 It’s tremendously important that somebody in the family should pray properly. Prayer attracts God’s Grace, and all the members of the family feel it, even those with hearts of ice. Always pray....
The One Mediator Fr. Patrick H. Reardon 4 January 2017 All seven of the Church’s Ecumenical Councils have been concerned with a single question: “Who is Jesus?” Indeed, according to the Gospels, Jesus Himself posed this question several times in various f...
The Holy Oblation 4 January 2017 This is the main prayer of the Divine Liturgy, at which the blessing of the Precious Gifts and their sacramental transformation into the Body and Blood of Christ takes place. In other words, it’s the ...
God’s present Abbess Gavriïlia 3 January 2017 People who live in the past might as well be dead. Those who live in the future, through their imagination, are puerile because only God knows the future. The joy of Christ is to be found only in th...
Christ’s Person as the Foundation of Church Life 3 January 2017 Archbishop Jovan of Ochrid speaks for the significance of Christ's Person for Church life...
The Bridge of Diamond Metropolitan Kallistos Ware of Diokleia 3 January 2017 ‘Thou hast brought us into being out of nothing’ (The Liturgy of St John Chrysostom). How are we to understand God’s relation to the world he has created? What is meant by this phrase ‘out of nothing’...
Heightened responsibilities Elder Epifanios Theodoropoulos † 2 January 2017 The fact that the Gospels are written in Greek presents us with heightened responsibilities. Any outstanding scholar abroad who wishes to deal with the New Testament has to learn Greek. All of them,...
Modern Loneliness and Staying Put Fr. Stephen Freeman 2 January 2017 This article is among the first written for the blog. There is something to be said for the blog itself  having "stayed put." The internet is an ephemeral creation. I hope to be providing a stable pla...
The butterfly lesson 2 January 2017 “One day a tiny tear appeared on a cocoon. One man was watching the butterfly trying to push her body through the opening. The struggle lasted for hours. Then it looked as though every activity had ce...
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