Venerable Frideswide, Patroness of Oxford

Commemorated October 19/November 1 (Repose) and February 12/25 (Translation of Relics)

Dmitry Lapa

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Rating: 10|Votes: 1

Venerable Frideswide, Patroness of Oxford

Commemorated October 19/November 1 (Repose) and February 12/25 (Translation of Relics)

Dmitry Lapa

For over 1000 years St. Frideswide has been venerated as the patron saint of Oxford in England and for over half of millennium, as the heavenly patroness of Oxford University and its students.

St. John of Kronstadt Through the Eyes of New Martyr Alexander Hotovitzky

New Martyr Alexander Hotovitzky

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Rating: 10|Votes: 11

St. John of Kronstadt Through the Eyes of New Martyr Alexander Hotovitzky

New Martyr Alexander Hotovitzky

In 1903, Fr. Alexander traveled to Russia and visited Fr. John Sergiev, the future saint, in Kronstadt. When he returned to New York, he gave an interview to a reporter from the Wilkes-Barre Times, and spoke about the famous wonder-worker of Kronstadt. The article was printed in that periodical on April 7, 1904.

Mankind’s Greatest Error

How to save yourself and your loved ones

Metropolitan Nikolaos of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki

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Orthodoxy Today

Rating: 7,8|Votes: 5

Mankind’s Greatest Error

How to save yourself and your loved ones

Metropolitan Nikolaos of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki

A conversation with Metropolitan Nicholas (Hatzinikolaou) of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki on the relationship between Church and State, science and religion, the main values man’s life, and a proper attitude.

The God of the Old Testament

Fr. Lawrence Farley

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Theology

Rating: 5,9|Votes: 20

The God of the Old Testament

Fr. Lawrence Farley

I understand some of this denunciation of the Most High on online forums and the like—some people are simply angry at Christianity and happily use any stick with which to beat Christians. They take some Old Testament verses out of their literary context and entirely out of their cultural context and start shouting. What is more perplexing to me is finding some Christians arguing that the Old Testament deity is insufficiently Christ-like. I expect the unbelievers to throw large chunks of the Bible angrily across the room. But I expected believers to be more respectful of what is for them, after all, Holy Writ.

The Prophet Hosea’s Personal Life

Deacon Pavel Serzhantov

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Rating: 2|Votes: 3

The Prophet Hosea’s Personal Life

Deacon Pavel Serzhantov

The Lord showed through the prophet and through his family how the God-chosen nation lives, and what awaits them. The scene was rather horrifying: The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take to thyself a wife of fornication, and children of fornication: for the land will surely go a-whoring in departing from the Lord (Hos. 1:2).