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The Holy Name

Fr. Stephen Freeman

It is easy to say, without fear of contradiction, that no group within Christianity holds greater reverence for the name of Jesus, in word and in practice than Orthodox Christianity.

Rating: 10|Votes: 2

The “Impossible” Commandment

Natalia Goroshkova, Archimandrite Markell (Pavuk)

“Of course, it is easier to say, ‘That is impossible nowadays. I will live my life however I please.’” Archimandrite Markell (Pavuk), confessor of the Kiev Theological Seminary and Academy, advises us not to seek the easy way but always to strive for perfection.

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Christ and History

From a series of sermons by Fr. John Whiteford, the rector of St. Jonah Orthodox Church, Spring, Texas

Fr. John Whiteford

If you read the Book of Genesis especially, you find this phrase repeated whenever is introduced a new figure, or basically a new chapter in the history of God’s people.

Rating: 7,8|Votes: 4

The Incarnation

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

Probably none of you has experience of being in the street; I had it when I was a child and a youth, and it’s a very unpleasant feeling to know that you have nowhere to go and that you are totally unwanted in any of the places that shine with light, which obviously speak of warmth to you.

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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.