The Nativity of Christ in Chronology from the Creation of Man
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Theology

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The Nativity of Christ in Chronology from the Creation of Man

Anatoly Vitvitsky

The goal of this article is to show the results of a calculation of the “5508 years” according to texts of the first translation of the lost original of ancient Hebrew Old Testament Books, made by the Israelite translators from the third to second centuries B.C. (the Septuagint) and preserved up to the twenty-first century in the Bible published by the Russian Bible Society in the Russian language.

Rest For Your Soul
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Orthodoxy Today

Rest For Your Soul

Fr. Stephen Freeman

Among the greatest difficulties faced by Orthodoxy in the New World has been the relative prosperity of an immigrant Church. Prosperity makes for a Church that is nicely comparable to denominational America, but it does not produce saints.

St. John of Kronstadt and the Education of Children
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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St. John of Kronstadt and the Education of Children

Archpriest Alexander Zelenenko

St. John of Kronstadt considered love for children to be the foundation of a teacher’s work—a foundation that is very often denied by modern-day so-called technicians of secular educational sciences and activities.

The New Year
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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

The New Year

Metropolitan Vladimir (Sabodan)

We should think of God, time, and ourselves. Within this triangle lies our life with its essence and purpose.

Martyr Boniface at Tarsus, in Cilicia
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Martyr Boniface at Tarsus, in Cilicia

Commemorated on December 19

The Holy Martyr Boniface was the slave of a rich young Roman woman named Aglaida and he dwelt with her in an iniquitous cohabitation. But they both felt the sting of conscience and they wanted somehow to be cleansed of their sin.