St. Maria of Helsinki

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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St. Maria of Helsinki

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

All the tears that you have shed will glitter like diamonds on the robes of the Mother of God; for all your sufferings and trials God will especially bless you and reward you. —Prophecy of the Holy Martyr Tsarina Alexandra

Did you really see God?

Priest Alexei Zabelin

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Education

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Did you really see God?

Priest Alexei Zabelin

Faith, as the knowledge of God, Whom my eyes have seen and my hands have touched, Whom I have come to know with all my senses, as He was with me in sorrow and joy—we can only talk about such faith with young people out of personal experience of a meeting with God. This experience of meeting God first transforms the person himself, and then he has something to share with others—the joy of personal transformation.

Why did some holy fathers believe in apocatastasis and other false ideas about life after death?

The Way of All Flesh: Conversation 2, Part 6

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

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Theology

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Why did some holy fathers believe in apocatastasis and other false ideas about life after death?

The Way of All Flesh: Conversation 2, Part 6

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

Let’s try to understand why certain fathers of the Church, such as St. Gregory of Nyssa, preached this heresy and why they were not pronounced heretics themselves.

St Gregory the Wonderworker of Neocaesarea

Commemorated on November 17/30

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St Gregory the Wonderworker of Neocaesarea

Commemorated on November 17/30

Saint Gregory the Wonderworker, Bishop of Neocaesarea, was born in the city of Neocaesarea (northern Asia Minor) into a pagan family. Having received a fine education, from his youth he strived for Truth, but the thinkers of antiquity were not able to quench his thirst for knowledge. Truth was revealed to him only in the Holy Gospel, and the youth became a Christian.

Holy Hatred

Fr. Lawrence Farley

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Theology

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Holy Hatred

Fr. Lawrence Farley

That is, for him some bits in the Scriptures are devoid of inspiration or authority, and ought to be jettisoned since they are merely the voices of sinful humans, men incapable of rising to a divine standard.