Remembering Elmer
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Orthodoxy Today

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Remembering Elmer

Fr. Lawrence Farley

Today’s young children are now in danger from a source other than traffic. I refer to the pandemic of pornography sweeping our land.

“I grew up near St. John.”
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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“I grew up near St. John.”

We do feel his presence in this church. Many people come to ask for help—it is he who brings them here. And the archbishop helps them himself. It is he who should be thanked for this help.

St. Mark of the Pskov Caves
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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St. Mark of the Pskov Caves

Commemorated March 29/April 11

People inhabited the Pskov caves long before the times of Venerable Mark, who was one of the first monks living in the valley of the Kamenets river. The site currently occupied by the Pskov Caves Monastery was formerly a thick forest.

The Ladder of Divine Ascent and Moral Improvement
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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

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The Ladder of Divine Ascent and Moral Improvement

Fr. Stephen Freeman

The path of modernity carries no humility. It breeds pride, and frequently contempt. Failure is its nemesis. We blame ourselves for laziness and sloth, certain that a little more effort will make the difference.

Orthodoxy is a Way of Life
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Orthodoxy is a Way of Life

A talk with Marilyn Swezey, the secretary of Bishop Basil (Rodzianko)

My interviewee has had an extremely interesting and unusual life for an American woman. Charming, intelligent, she looks some 15 years younger than she really is. And behind her there is a long life full of the hard labors of a noble, self-sacrificing person who seeks to see Divine providence in every turn of her life. Here she is: secretary of Bishop Basil (Vasily) Rodzianko, assistant to Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen), an expert in the Russian literature and arts, honorable parishioner of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Marilyn Pfeifer Swezey.