Fr. Barnabas Powell
The Orthodox Church forbids its clergy from holding elected office, or endorsing political parties or candidates. Yet this stance doesn’t mean it remains neutral when issues of moral and spiritual significance come to a vote.
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Daniel Spaulding
Proud modern man pursues his Faustian deal with the technological Mephistopheles, hoping that he’ll be saved from death, or at the very least saved from the expansive boredom and emptiness of the modern world.
In 1654, a plague raged in Shuya from September 1 to October 12. The parishioners of the Resurrection Church asked iconographer Gerasim Tikhonov Ikonikov to paint a “Smolensk” Hodigitria icon “with all reverence and haste”. The iconographer happily took up the work, praying to the Most Pure Theotokos for its successful completion.
Archbishop Andrei (Rymarenko)
We have heard about the sufferings of the possessed one and how the Grace of God delivered him from them. This same Grace can do the very same for us. But Grace is given through faith. What is faith? In answer to this question I will tell you one incident from my student life.
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The words of Patriarch Pavle are relevant today, and will be for years to come.
