Unavoidable Suffering and Salvation – The Way of Shame
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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

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Unavoidable Suffering and Salvation – The Way of Shame

Fr. Stephen Freeman

Shame is the unbearable emotion, according to psychologists. It is also the first recorded human emotion in Scripture.

The Missionary Vision of the Martyred Fr. Daniel Sysoev
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Orthodoxy Today

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The Missionary Vision of the Martyred Fr. Daniel Sysoev

Edward Hunter

By all accounts, Fr. Daniel Sysoev was a powerful and effective missionary priest. As a direct result of his efforts, and in accordance with his express desire and sense of calling, he crowned his ministry with martyrdom, being murdered in the nave of his own church on the night of November 19, 2009.

Thoughts on a Refugee Crisis But No Solution
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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

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Thoughts on a Refugee Crisis But No Solution

Fr. Ted Bobosh

The mass migration has put many European countries to the test, and have challenged the moral values of Christians throughout the world. How should Christians respond to these aliens and strangers who come knocking at our borders? How do we treat migrants who themselves are related to people who have inflicted oppression and suffering on Christians?

Venerable Illtyd, Abbot of Llantwit Major in Wales and the Teacher of the Welsh
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Venerable Illtyd, Abbot of Llantwit Major in Wales and the Teacher of the Welsh

Commemorated November 6/19

Dmitry Lapa

St. Illtyd, who knew very well both the Old and New Testaments, all kinds of philosophy, and other sciences, and was one of the most learned figures of his age, was probably born in the first half of the fifth century.

Venerable Barlaam the Abbot of Khutyn, Novgorod
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Venerable Barlaam the Abbot of Khutyn, Novgorod

St Barlaam led a strict solitary life, occupying himself with unceasing prayer and keeping a very strict fast. He was a zealous ascetic in his labors: he cut timber in the forest, chopped firewood and tilled the soil, fulfilling the words of Holy Scripture, “If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat” (2 Thess. 3: 10).