Bishop Irenei (Steenberg)

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The Cry of the Humbled Heart—the Ascetical Significance of the Great Canon

Bishop Irenei (Steenberg)

There is something unique, something astonishing about this text. However many times we have heard it or read it before, each time it is encountered, each time its words, together with the special melodies that we sing, with the bows, the demeanor with which we experience them—each time, they effect us in a remarkable way.

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Maximos the Confessor: On the Free Will of Christ

Archimandrite Irenei (Steenberg)

This study considers the question of 'free will' in the Christology of St Maximus, and in particular the soteriological implications of his various discussions.

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Halloween: How Do We Tell the Children?

All the children are doing it, and we know how hard it is to get our children to swim upstream and ignore the heathenish customs of their peers. Rather than make light of this problem, we decided to ask some Orthodox priests in the United States who have to deal with this every year what they say to their own children and other families about Halloween.

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“If Only We Would Take Seriously Our Spiritual Lives, We Would All Be Saints:” A Conversation with Archimandrite Irenei (Steenberg)

Part 2

Jesse Dominick, Archimandrite Irenei (Steenberg)

While visiting Moscow during the month of June, Archimandrite Irenei (Steenberg), rector of the Sts. Cyril & Athanasius Institute for Orthodox Studies in San Francisco and an Archimandrite of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, visited Sretensky Monastery for an interview with Pravoslavie.ru. This is the second part of our interview with Father Irenei, which focuses chiefly on the state of Orthodox scholarship and sanctity.

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“The Only Voice with Which Any Orthodox Christian is Entitled to Speak is the Voice of the Church:” A Conversation with Archimandrite Irenei (Steenberg)

Part 1

Jesse Dominick, Archimandrite Irenei (Steenberg)

While visiting Moscow during the month of June, Archimandrite Irenei (Steenberg), rector of the Sts. Cyril & Athanasius Institute for Orthodox Studies in San Francisco and an Archimandrite of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, visited Sretensky Monastery for an interview with Pravoslavie.ru. This is the first part of our interview with Father Irenei, which focuses on the nature of the human person and several of the challenges facing modern society.

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The “Wonderful and Confessedly Striking” Christian Manner of Life

Archimandrite Irenei (Steenberg)

Examining a passage from the anonymous second-century Epistle to Diognetus, Archimandrite Irenei explores the witness borne by the early Christian community and asks: does it reflect our Christian testimony today?