Stopping of sins
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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

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Stopping of sins

Priest Leonid Kudryachov

The train wheels are squealing, like the drowning Gadarene pigs, and the horned and tailed engine driver is uttering dirty curses. All are poking their fingers at the disturber of the “peace”—condemning, ridiculing and threatening him. But he has already left.

Living in the Real World
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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Living in the Real World

Fr. Stephen Freeman

We cannot live in the abstract and suddenly attend to the real. We cannot “care” and then turn to love. “To live” is an active verb. The passions of mass experience are something else.

Memorial Services in Honor of the Martyred Fr. Daniel Sysoev
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Memorial Services in Honor of the Martyred Fr. Daniel Sysoev

Jesse Dominick

On Thursday November 19 and Friday November 20 memorial services were held in honor of Fr. Daniel Sysoev who was martyred in his parish in 2009 at the age of thirty-four.

Thank You, O Lord!
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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

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Thank You, O Lord!

Archpriest Alexander Schmemann

By way of introduction, Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann celebrated the Divine Liturgy for the last time on Thanksgiving Day.

Col. Philip Ludwell III: The Forerunner of Orthodoxy in North America
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Church History

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Col. Philip Ludwell III: The Forerunner of Orthodoxy in North America

Ryan Hunter, Nicholas Chapman

When we think of the pilgrims, who came to the American continent from England to start a new life and a new country, we think of Puritans and Calvinists. But how many of us know that one of the largest landowners in the state of Virginia, a personal friend of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, an ancestor of Robert E. Lee, was a pious Orthodox Christian?