Rest For Your Soul

Fr. Stephen Freeman

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Orthodoxy Today

Rest For Your Soul

Fr. Stephen Freeman

Among the greatest difficulties faced by Orthodoxy in the New World has been the relative prosperity of an immigrant Church. Prosperity makes for a Church that is nicely comparable to denominational America, but it does not produce saints.

St. John of Kronstadt and the Education of Children

Archpriest Alexander Zelenenko

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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St. John of Kronstadt and the Education of Children

Archpriest Alexander Zelenenko

St. John of Kronstadt considered love for children to be the foundation of a teacher’s work—a foundation that is very often denied by modern-day so-called technicians of secular educational sciences and activities.

The New Year

Metropolitan Vladimir (Sabodan)

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

The New Year

Metropolitan Vladimir (Sabodan)

We should think of God, time, and ourselves. Within this triangle lies our life with its essence and purpose.

Martyr Boniface at Tarsus, in Cilicia

Commemorated on December 19

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Martyr Boniface at Tarsus, in Cilicia

Commemorated on December 19

The Holy Martyr Boniface was the slave of a rich young Roman woman named Aglaida and he dwelt with her in an iniquitous cohabitation. But they both felt the sting of conscience and they wanted somehow to be cleansed of their sin.

What kind of a God would allow such things to happen?

Fr. James Guirguis

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Theology

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What kind of a God would allow such things to happen?

Fr. James Guirguis

The evangelist St. Matthew has left a wonderful present under the tree and he teases us to contemplate it and think about it and perhaps even to peek into it and discover something of the mystery of this joyous feast.